The age-herald., 1902-02-07
Senator Hanna is a Most Corr teous and Agreeable Talker.

, curiosity, this person never saw him un- til editorial instructions made 1t busi- ness to see him.
 And it was a happy experience The Senator could not have been kinder or more cordial toward an old friend. h. terviewing for the one time became a genuine pleasure, and all the greater for having been undertaken with grave mis- givings. Nothing short of actual duty could have led to the facing of the Doug las in his hall. Yet it having been done one has an experience to be cherished an experience of round, rosy-faced, happy hammered great man, sitting on a table swinging his feet, smiling and talk ing the words of a noble prophecy which shal lin our time come to pass.
 Thus you have something of Marcus Alonzo Hanna as he is, without garnish- ment, without detraction.
 
 With chunks of fat in his head as big as your fist, with a bald cranium and bald face the fat, the most noble. the right honorable, thrice-illustrous Jedge Edgar Dean Crumpacker. misrepresentative in Congress of the nine Hoosier counties of Benton, Jasper, Lake, Laporte (where the morphine habit didn't used to be cured), Newton, Porter and Tippecanoe too likewise Warren and White, doesn't know what hit i'm in the House Republican caucus.
 This vainglorious, selfrighteous, Phar- asaical humbug of Hoosierdom, the land whereon the immortal Dudley did rain In which great employers of labor do biennially coerce their workmen into voting the Re- publican ticket by threatening to close the factories, would "cut down Southern rep resentation' in Congress and the elec- toral college because white men are de- termined to govern the South; but thus far his own party scorns his absurd pre- tensions.
 It Is such men as this wretched Crum- l packer which makes the nation tired and long for some six and thirty-hour despot who would cut off every fools head be- tween the seas. This bombastic blother- skte of politics is of the holier-than-thou workers of iniquity, and it Is comforting to know that his own political party de- clines for the present at least to follow where he brays.
 Writing of himself in that autobio- graphical work the Congressional Direc- l tory which has been the fateful stumbling block of so many men who were we'll meaning which Crumpacker is not, the righteous jedge says:
 Edgar Dean Crumpacker, Republican of Valvapraso, was born May 27 1851. in LaPorte County, Indiana; was educated in the common schools and at the Valva- praise Academy; was admitted to the bar in 1876 dhe year his party stole the Pres idency), and has practiced in Valparaiso since; was prosecuting attorney for the thirty-frst judicial district of Indiana from 1884 to 1888; served as appellate judge in the state of Indiana, by appointment, under Governor Hovey, from March, 1891. to January, 1893; was elected to the Fifty fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and re- elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress" ] and so on.
 That's all there is about Crumpacker, except what is hereinbefore set forth. He is just now the bright star of the morn ing of the few, the immoral howlers who are "arter them damned rebbies down south. LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.