Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1898 — The County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

The County Ticket.

For Prosecuting-Attorney, ALBERT E. CHIZUM, of Newton County. For County Clerk, ESTJL E. PIERSON/ ofUnion Township. For County Auditor, WILLIAM C. BABCOCK, of Marion Township. For County Treasurer, ROBERT A. PARKISON, of Barkley Township. For County Sheriff, NATE J.‘REED, of Carpenter Township. For Countv Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P.' WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissioner Ist District. ABRAHAM HALLECK. of Keener Township. Commissioner 2nd District, SIMEPN A, DOWELL, of Marion Township.

In n letter written a short time before he cast that inexplicable vote against the annexation of Hawaii. Congressman Crumpacker wrote a to the Monon News, for publication, in which occurred this sentence: “Speaker Reed, who in my judgment is far the ablest man connected with the administration is decidedly opposed to the annexation, and he has -a great deal of support,” And yet, Speaker himself had not the nerve to openly defy the almost unanimous sentiment of the Republicans of the country to the extent of voting against Hawaii, but took occasion to be absent when the vote was taken. As to the “great deal of support” the speaker has in his coufse in this respect, it is shown by the fact that only three Republicans Congressmen in the whole House could be found to vote against annexation —and of these three one was Henry U. Johnson, of Indiana, who of late years has become a more pestilent crank than ever Objector Holman was, in his pdmiest days, and the Republicans of his district ure too disgusUd with him to even mention his nntue. Another of these three was some obscure nobody, from Ohio, and the third" man was— Crumpacker!

The “great support” that Mr. Heed Ims iti his course in this matter has been further shown by the action of the Republicans of Maine, both at their state and congressional conventions. Tim. for the first time in years, there was absolutely no mention of Mr. Reed’s name. Not support but almost universal disapproval is whnt the Republicans of Maine tmw give to their once favorite son. In this connection The Republican tet Is bound to denounce and disavow, for the Republicans of Jasper at lentt, the gratuitous and insulting fiing at President M Kinle; .contained in Mr. Crumpucker’s statement, "Speaker Reed ia far the ablest man connected with ti e administration.” This remark is a gross insult, not only to the administration, but to the masses of the Republict.n | hr'y. who in overwhelming M.t.i baity ci ose Mr McKinley as tir •ai ohi. te, in preference to

Mr. Reed, and every other leader, in 1896. The argument that this country ought not to take the Hawaian Islands, or even, if future, circumstances render it necessary, even the Phillipin.es, because it will commit us to a policy of ‘ imperialism” and land grabbing throughout the world, is the merest nonsense. The time when this nation could have inaugurated such a policy of grabbing has gone by. from *Hae simple reason that there is no longer any considerable extent 1 of territory left for us to grab. We might takeallof Spaift’s outlying possessions; but after that where is there any further opportunity for territorial extension? England has taken pretty nearly everything in sight in the way of islands in the seas; and what England has not gobbled, Germany and France have. * There is surely no one in his senses who believes we are likely to attempt to wrest from any of those great nations any of their foreign possessions. Nor is there any possible danger of our attempting to take even from weakernntions like Holland or Denmark any of their colonies; for we will never interfere with any colony that is governed with wisdom and justice. As to the continental divisions of the earth, there is no place left in them whatever, fora new comer to enter the land grabbing game. At least none that could in the least tempt the people of the United States. Africa is parcelled out among the great nations of Europe. South America is possessed and governed by its own people, and nothing is more unlikely that this nation would ever have the least disposition to disturb the territorial integrity of any of them. As to Asia, that is also pretty well taken by the nations of Europe, and what is not, we could not get if we would and would not if we could.