Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — Tenth District Congressman. [ARTICLE]

Tenth District Congressman.

Mondays Chicago Record-Herald : has an extended communication ' from Indianapolis, giving a sketch of the political situation in each of the congressional districts of this state. The introduction to the article is the following paragraph: “Th e fact that nearly all the members of Congress from Indiana are now serving their third term, and that, as a rule, rotation in office is and has always been something of a fad in this state, is leading to the grooming of several aspirants, and there is a strong probability that some of the districts will be the theaters of the most determined political contests that were ever witnessed within party lines in Indiana. In the Republican district the majorities as a general thing, are so large that no fear of defeat attends upon contentions over nominations, and this also true of the Democratic districts, and in both the incumbents will have to make the fight of their lives if they are renominated.” THE TENTH PISTRICT SITUATION.

The following concerns the tenth district. “One of the contests on which the eyes of politicians will be centered will take place in the tenth district if the plans that are now being arranged do not miscarry. State Senator Wood of Tippecanoe County has his eye upon Judge Crumpacker’s seat in Congress and is preparing to make a vigorous contest for it. The incumbent is the only Indiana representative in Congress who held out against the Porto Rican tariff act, and he has been very outspoken against the ship subsidy bill. His attitude toward the Porto Rican tariff, when it was supported by all the other Republican members from Indiana occasioned fear that it would lead to complication in the party, but the state convention did not touch upon the question in its platform, and when Crumpacker was renominated by the district convention the tariff was not made an issue. Wood’s friends say that the tenth district congressman is not regarded as being in full and cordial sympathy with some of the administration’s views, and for this reason it is believed that a strong man and a stanch Republican would have a good chance for the nomination. Wood is all of this. He is a forcible speaker, a conservative legislator and fully in accord with his party. He introduced and advocated several important measures in the recent session of the legislature, among them being the new medical bill and the bill against the practice of Christian Science.”