Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1898 — Somewhat Sarcastic. [ARTICLE]

Somewhat Sarcastic.

Goodland Herald. It may relieve the pressure on this district to learn that Crumpacker will make no effort to recind the action of Congress on Hawaiian annexation, but will accept the inevitable and let ’er go. He says “I am for Hawaii now. because it is American soil.” t ;O.ur esteemed friend of the Enterprise thinks this effectually settles those people who have criticised the distinguished pink-a-mink statesman for his course in opposing a proposition of vital importance to not only his party but his country. Distinguished senators who long ago opposed annexation with equal honesty and much stronger logic than Crumpacker has evidenced, afterward voted it, thus exhibiting a broad-minded patriotism that acknowledges that conditions will sometimes alter the basis upon which reason is predicated. MrCrumpacker’s hasty announcement that he accepts what everybody knows he is compelled to accept or hunt up a more congenial country, adds nothing to either his patriotism nor his record for general intelligence.