Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04
INDIANAFOR M'KINLEY
Representative Crumpacker Believes
the Delegation Safe.
IhPERI A BUGBEAR
CIear-Cut, Vigorous Words on the
Popular Issues.
"HOSIERS NOT FOOLS"

Crumpacker, member OF Congress from
the tenth Indiana district today and in dis
cussing the situation in Indiana, asked
Judge Crumpacker the probable outcome in
this doubtful and politically interesting
state.
McKfnley's Majority in 1896.
Il can see nothing in the situation at
this time to justify the prediction that Bry-
an will carry Indiana" he said. II can see
no reason why Mckinley will not have as
large a majority in this state this year as
he had in 1885, Hoosiers are not fools and
the conditions that have brought prosperity
to the country at large, prevail here as
fully as anywhere else in the Union. The
fifth congressional district Is the only one
now represented by republican that can
be classed doubtful and the chances are
that the republican candidate will carry
that district in November
The gold democrats are divided As
many will vote for Mckinley as for Bryan
The express reafflrmation Of free coinage
in the Kansas City platform at the heaven
born ratio, will cut but little figure for
every voter with intelligence enough to be
gold standard man, knows that Bryan is
the perSonification of the free coinage pol
icy, platform or no platform. and that he
cannot be galvanized into anything else
The leopard cannot change his spots nor
the Ethiopian his skin A democrat who
would go into the Bryan camp except for
that declaration Is a victim of sef-delusion
The "ParamOunt Issue"
Paramount Issues are sometimes ex-
pressed but they are never made by plat
form declarations The people think and
form impressions Of parties as organized en-
titles, with virtues and vices like individ-
uals, and the party. considering its history,
character and professions, that has the
best claims upon the public confidence usu-
ally wins. Many voters have pronounced
party predictions without being able to
define them, but they have an Intelligent
basis just the same.
imperialism will receive Its share of at
tentlon on the stump and in party organs
during the campaign, but the people are
disposed to look upon the question as a.
political stalking-horse, trotted out for this
campaign only. If democrats were sincere
in their denunciation of Imperialism the
country would regard it a case of po-
litical jim-jams.'
I have no doubt that the people of this
country would oppose imperialism IL it
We're seriously proposed, but they cannot
be led to confound that specter with a
patriotic effort to establish order on Ameri-
can soil. The people expect US to govern
the newly acquired possessions according
to republican principles. and to treat the
fnhabitants thereof as Americans and not
as foreigners, but they know full well that
we cannot govern them at all until insur-
rection is subdued and order established.
In other days We were compelled to use
lOTCe 10 SuDUue lnSuTreCClOn ana Dut down
rebellion on territory held by the same
kind of title that we have for the Philip
pine Islands, but no one regarded 1t as i'm
perialism then.
The Porto Rico Bill.
'It Is true there was great anxiety over
the passage of the Porto Rican tariff bill.
but when it.was known that the operation
of the law was limited to two years and
the people were assured that it did not
foreshadow a permanent policy, but was
designed as temporary eXpedient to meet
the exigencies of the situation the feeling
subsided. That is the view the people take
of that law now. and it is confirmed by the
asction of the Philadelphia convention in
ignoring the question altogether. 1t will
lose the party few, if any, votes in this
state. The people will not be frightened
into the belief that there is any real dan
ger Of Imperialism, therefore that issue
cannot be exalted into a controlling posi-
ton In the campaign.
The Trust Issue.
There Is more real concern over the
trust question than any other issue, and the
country is quite generally agreed that a
democratic administration would cripple
trusts, but 1t would kill all forms Of enter
prise in doing 1t. The remedy would be
worse than the evil 1t would be like burn
ing the barn to destroy the rats. Trusts
according to the popular notion, are COM
competition and they are generally regard
ed as vicious. The competitive system has
brought about our splendid indus
trial development, and it is abso-,
If trusts should become general and
permanent there could be no more
growth. There would be no motive to fur
ther improve methods of production, and in
vention would be without encouragement
That system would be bad as industrial
socialism without its benefits
But capital is too plentiful, resources too
abundant and genius too enterprising to
permit any combination to monopolize any
field OF activity permanently. Natural
forces will destroy trusts II legislation does
not They have assumed an ugly aspect
within the last few years, but that is ac-
counted for in the overwrought business sit
uation. The American people have no con-
servatism In their business methods. Ev-
erything is run at the highest pressure
when conditions are good. and as a result
we have the most intoxicating periods Of
prosperity, followed by the most distressing
periods of reaction, of any people on earth.
Lack Of conservatism, which means i'm
proper adjustment of production to con-
sumption. is responsible for it ALL Large
institutions. realizing their danger. enter
into combinations to protect themselves
against rufnous oVerproduction. 1t can only
serve as temporary expeuent. Men must
learn prudence in business, and those who
will not must go to destruction. Conserva-
tive methods will come with age and ex-
perience, and in the meantime political par
ties and legislative bodies will experiment
on measures for the determination OF
trusts. Natural law, however, will ulti-
mately find the solution.
Republicans Have the Advantage.
THE people realize that it is the most
difficult and dangerous to handle of all the
current questions. On the record. the re-
publican party has the advantage of its
adversary in antitrust legislation. The
people have little confidence in democratic
denunciation of trusts. 1t is a sounding
brass and tinklng cymbal.' In 1892 they
promised to demolsh trusts, but they sue
ceeded only in filling the land with distrust.
Expansion Not Ikaue.
"Expansion is not issue in this cam
paign. Nobody is proposing to add any
more territory to the national domain so
far as I know, except Champ Clark OF Mis-
souri,; and he Is after the north pole
hope, he will succeed In getting IT. The
issue made by the Kansas City platform is
seunfractien, not expanston- The Bryanites
| say we are too large. and that we ought to
reduce the national corpus. They say that