The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-14
IT WAS CAMPAIGN THUNDER.

Republican paper, which The New Bedford Standard refers to as "a lead- ing newspaper organ of the Party In Rhode Island" thus refers to the Crum- packer movement:
 The resolution looking to reduced representation rs' that was adopted by the Chicago convention may possibly have served some useful purpose in the cam paign, but Mir Crumpacker is almost alone in interpreting 1t, as a sacred promise. Even if 1t Is, there are some promises that. like some customs, are better honored in the breach than in the observance.
 The Standard Is a staunch Republican newspaper. but 1t admits that there is evidently no intention on the part of most of the Republican Congressman to pay any attention to it," but de- clares that the Rhode Island papers ''cold-blooded way of looking at a promise which was not made hastily, but in view of well-known and thor oughly discussed conditions, and which ought not to have been made at all un- less there was some intention of carry ing it out. may be satisfying to a dis | position which cares little for an obli- gatioh, but 1t Is rather poor policy, to say nothing of higher considerations, for political party which claims to be guided by lofty principles MT. Crum- packers crusade is against a very great evil and injustice. He possibly has not taken the best way of proceeding | against 1t, and 1t may be that the time has not come when the country Is suf- fciently worked up to a comprehension of all that is involved. But in its last analysis the issue is an irrepressible one, and neither the Encouragement of MT. Crunpacker nor the comfortable cynicism of his critics can avert the necessity of deciding it."
 In our opinion the resolution was simply intended as a campaign deliver ance. It was intended as spur to the extremists of the North, but more es- pecially was 1t intended to enthuse the colored voters In States where they are of importance. And the colored troops fought nobly." might well be said of the negroes. and they were largely Incited to it by the thought that their Party was pledged to strike a blow at the South. Crumpacker's discouragement may partly be due to the fact that Keller and others have taken the wind out of his sails, but he is mostly dis couraged because his Party friends in Congress show so little disposition to l aid his disreputable efforts. They do not encourage or assist him for the req son that they know it is useless, and for the other reason that the subject might prove live wire if they monkey with it. In the words of old John Trumbull:
 But as some muskets so contrive 1t
 As oft to miss the mark they drive at, l And though well aimed at duck or l blower,
 Bear wide and kick their owners over.
 That is about the way some of the Republicans look at Crumpackers proposition. If carried to its legitimate conclusion it might knock hole in the representation of Massachusetts, Penn sylvania and some of the other self righteous commonwealths up North. The idea of The Standard that "the issue is an irrepressible one" Is the view of an extremist. that is all It has than once served it's purpose as a cam paign argument. We doubt If the time ever comes when it will stand any bet ter show of success than it does now We of the South are not worrying over | 1t, for even If the plan should succeed 1t would not make us change our suf- 1 fraRe reRulations