New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-17
SPEAKER CRISP Is TROUBLED.
HE SAYS THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION IN ALA
BAMA Is PERPLEXING.

HE SAYS THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION IN ALA
BAMA Is PERPLEhING
Speaker Crisp Of Americas, Ca. is at the lioSmah
House He visited the Democratic headquarters !es,er
hav and confidently informed the people there mat
Georgia would go Democratic This information however
was not OF sufficient importance for Chairman iarrN 10
issue one of his joyous bulletins to the peopc oi tn
I-nttsd States Later in the day Mr. Crisp str0ncd
into the Fifth Avenue Hotel He told tribune TO-
norter that the situation in Alabama WIS perpeAihS
10 the regular Democracy, and he could not predic'
the outcome 1t rather gloomy ne cohieSSeu
trbe followers OF Mr. KoEb all Democrats, how
ever and Of course, drew votes from the regular
party There doubt about TINT ana these iieh
were angered by the treatment they say the9 nave
received from the regular Democrats Inc openhr
saN rhat Mr. Kolb lived in the district that Coiohei
Oates represents Congress, and he thought tha' 'e
,,nn,re in the Democratic party would be rather ser
s so far as Colonel Oatess return Is concerned Inc
Sneaker inferred from what he had heard tis' 1' us
affection among the Democrats in Alabama Is DaSeu vi
more substantial grounds than those which the lhiru
marty has taken. He intimated that 1t was the al
legged fraud as he called it, Of the straightout Demo
cra,s in counting ont Mr. Kob and his followers when
had brought about the break. "But, ne adoeu' tneS
are all Democrats and believe they VIII V''e aS 'oS
have always done before"
In speaking about the condition OF the coVVoh mar
let in Ceoreiu he said Il am sorry 10 say ua' ,'o
pr,ces are lower now thin they have been for many
Years" go
The Speaker asked what was the cause OF IT,
at is overproducion, not in the South so much ~
In other parts world. Great numbers OF paies
a. Eey pttan cotton have In, and besides, Us
have been recently told by those who ought 10 KNOW"
there Is a surplus OF 100000 bales In the SCUM alone
They we're held from last years crop OF course
this large surplus makes the market dull
Mr. Crisp asked II there was any attempt Dong
made TO give protection TO the Southern planter against
the foreign producer.
"Weu you know, the Peoples party want the Gov
ornment 10 lend per cent OF the value on the crops.
Oil that is not what you mean. No, never nave
heard of any organization forming for the purpose OF
MENTIONING Congress TO PIT tariff on cotton. our
marty does not believe in Protection and we cannot
n course prevent overproducion."
Nevertheless, without impngning the truthfuiness
~ sneaker Crisps statement, those organizations 90
oxisf and there is settled purpose on The part OF
fSossnds OF southern planters to petition Congress 10
impose q tax, which IS abhorent 10 Free Traders
Iinp U unmarried cotton They lind they cannot COM
rafe With the cheap labor OF Egypt.
Sneaker Crisp returns TO Geo sia today ana VIII
n,atn there until after the SaU election, which VIII
he held in october. lie would not reveal the object
" &c brief visit TO New York. II may be that he
Tears that the solid south" may be broken