THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 772, 22 March 1910, Page 7

THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.

Mr. Edgar D. Crumpacker, of Indiana, ono of tho most influential members of tho House, declared in an interview recently that if Cannonism was to be made an issuo in tho next Congressional campaign ; the Republicans would not elect a single member from Indiana. Speaking of the literature now being sent out by the Republican Congressional Committee, in which Cannonism is held up to tho Republican "insurgents" of tho House as a standard of party regularity, Mi\ Crumpacker sail: "Somebody seems bound and determined to make Cannonism an issue in the next Congressional election. If it is the issue in tho next campaign, I am frank to say thero will not be a single Republica-i Congressman in the next House from the State of If there , is any one thing which has given •me strength in my district it has been the fact that my constituents know that I never have been ,a Cannon lieutenant."

Mr. Crumpacker would not say what ho intended to do if the Cannon issuo was raised in the House. Ho has always maintained an independent attitude, and will probably continue to vote as he thinks best. His talk, however, is construed to mean that he expects to have to pledge himself. to vote against Speakor Cannon for Speaker of the. next Congress.