The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-15
CRISP REFUSES TO TALK.
A LETTER SENT HIM BY ELLERY
ANDERSON.

ANDERSON.
The Speaker Refuses to Say Anything
About It-Senator Mills Denies Max
ing statements Attributed to Him.
Editors Walsh and Howell Express
Their Views on the Incid ent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-Speaker Crisp
was seen this morning. He still declines to
talk about the Reform Club dinner. Little
doubt is entertained that he has received a
letter OF some sort from Mr.. Ellery Ander-
son in references 10 Mr.. Anderson's failure
TO call on him for q speech, but Mr.. Crisp,
himself, declines to say whether or not he
has received any communication from
Mr.. Anderson and refuses to dis
euss the incident, taking the ground
that the subject is delicats one and that it
would be improper for one of the parties con-
cerned to make comment on it. 1t may be,
however, that in view of the general publi-
cation given the embarrassing affair, Mr..
Crisp will decide to make public the text of
any explanation he has received from Mr..
Anderson or any other person connected
with the dinner, and, then regard the inci
dent as closed"
MILLS WRITES TO ANDERSON.
Senator Mills Of Texas to-day sent the
following letter to E. Ellery Anderson,
president of the Reform Club, New York
city, regarding the Crisp incident:
To Col. E. EHery anderson, President Reform
DEAR SIR--It is stated in the New York Sun
OF the 18th inst. that said to several democrats
Saturday afternoon of the 10Th inst: Speaker
Crisp has come to town with a speech prepared,
but | know that he will not have an oppor-
tunity to deliver it, and the Tribune of the
same date says that am reported as having
said "Crisp has got a speech ready to
deliver at the Reform Club cinner
tonight o1be ,.o.. and ,,. has given it ou.
chance to fire it off, He will find that this bis isn't
bis show" Both of these statements are false,
wholly so, I.never knew that Mr.. Crisp was
mT6eq pTn6e1ed to or speas tHSt S Se had speech
the banquet. or that he was in the
city, until sat down to the table and saw his
name on the programme and the seat he was to
occupy. he soon appeared on the stand. l ad-
vanced and shook hands with him and aided in
finding the seat set apart for him. learned for
the first time in the papers Sunday morning
that he was indignant at his treatment
said then and say now that do not believe
the club or any of its officers intended to show
him the slightest disrespect and have no more
connection with the matter than the man in the
moon. r. ., MILLS,
VERY CRISP LETTER.
Special Dispatch to the Morning NeUs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-Speaker Crisp
replied to President Anderson of the Re
form Club to-day in what was described by
one of his friends as "a very Crisp letter. ~
He declined positively to give out either
Mr.. Anderson's letter or his reply, or to
talk about them for publication. But his
friends say that President Anderson's letter
'only made a bad matter worse" and that
iu his reply Speaker Crisp points out that
fact in no uncertain language. Speaker
l. k.g = -
that of surprise that President Anderson
should have written to him at all when he
had made no public criticism whatever on
his treatment at the dinner.
GEORGIA EDITORS INTERVIEWED.
New YoRK, Dec. 14.-CapF. Evan P.
Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution,
and Col Pat Walsh, editor Of the Augusta
Chronicle, were in a group OF friends at the
Fifth Avenue hotel to-day when the Crisp
Mills-CleveIand Reform Club banquet affair
came up for discussion, and Col. Walsh
said: 1t has been said that the reason why
they did not let Speaker Crisp make an adj
dress was because he was free silver man.
That is fine argument since Mr. Mills
voted in the House for every free silver
measure that was ever preseted. He would
have ruined himself with his constituents
II he had not done SO. When he was in the
House he was in such position that il he
had voted against free silver coinage he
would have been defeated for denomination,
In the Senate he voted for such a
bill, too, because he had pledged himself to
so vote to get the senatorship. Mr.. Crisp is
as good tariff reformer as Mr.. Mills
better; for he would 60 slow and not destroy
any industries. We must have revenues to
pay the expenses of the government, and
the revenues above the point where they
will be virtually on the free trade basis
should be used for incidental protection. If
the Democratic party is going to give the
nation the extreme of free trade there Is
trouble ahead for it, Speaker Crisp has
been strengthened by the affair in which
his humiliation was attempted. He is
stronger to-day than before it occurred"
CAPT. HowELL's VIEWS.
Capt. Howell was much more pronounced,
saying: "The south is full of men like my
self who do not want the extreme of pros
lection nor the extreme of free trade. We
believe in the golden mean as the best for
the country. l was not at the Reform Clue
banquet but have read the speeches made
there. I can tell you that if Tom Johnson
had made a few such speeches he
delivered at the banquet in the southern
states during the campaign, there would
not have been one state in five south of
DiXon's line that would have voted for Mr.
Cleveland. What tho south wants is not
free trade of the extreme character, nor vet
protection Of the extreme character. We
want the even and equable tariff for reve>
nue. required by the government for its ex-
penses, with protection from incidental
revenue applied where it will do the most
good to the greatest number"