The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-08
SILVER THE GREAT ISSUE.
Speaker Crisp Expresses Himself on Coin

age.
ATLANTA, April 3O.-Speaker.C Charles
T. Crisp in an interview at his home
in Americus, declared himself Satur-
day to staff correspondent of the
Constitution in favor of the free coin
age of silver. He believes the Demo
Gratis should nominate Western man
with military record, for President,
and says the party should not nomin-
ate Mr.. Cleveland for third term
that no man should have third term.
The Speaker is in fairly good health,
but his physician has ordered him to
spend the summer quietly and he ex-
poets to leave shortly for Asheville.
''The platform, " said Mr.. Crisp OBJ
servantly, should declare for the free
coinage of silver direct and with set
of principles responding to the de-
mands of the common people; we
should select some good man from the
West-some man with military re-
cord, identified with the dominant
sentiment that now controls the party,
and go forth with confidence to the
victory which the people give those
who are brave enough to fight for 1t.
The only fear [ have, IS not that the
people are not in favor of free silver,
but that the free silver people,
who are in the majority, may
divide into factions, running two or
three candidates, in which event the
election would be thrown into the
House, which could elect a Repuoll-
can.
"Such a contest as I have outlined
would cause many people to make new
party ahgnments: There are Demo
Gratis strongly welded to the gold the
ory and many Republicans just as
strongly welded to free silver. Of
course. these men would have to
choose between their old party and
their convictions on this issue: The
Democrats of the East want gold. the
Republicans of the West want silver.
The re-alignment will be as interest
ing as they will bepuzzling, but to the
lottery of politics the whole Issue must
be committed. 49,,
"Of course said Mr.. Crisp, there
is contingency in which the people
might not be called upon to settle the
question-that is, the possible action Of
an international conference. mat
would be the best and easies. method,
of re-establishing silver, and with less
of the clement OF experiment IN 1t. II
SUCH a conference should be called and
it took action restoring silver so that
the people would be satisfied, then we
would have the final action for 1896.
In the meantime, however. the people
of the United StateSwiu be moving
along to that result in their own con-
stitutional way. The people want the
free coinage of silver. | am IN favor
of its free coinage, as have always
been, and the Democratic voters will
declare for it next year.
There is some talk, it was sug-
eested, that you may be candidate
for the Presidency next year:
Il see," said Mr.. Crisp, smilingly,
that for wait of better subject many
newspapers are printing editorials on
that line. Not in the lifetime of the
generation passing off the stage will a
Southern man be elected. The ques-
ton of residence, for a long time to
come, will be "a controlling one, and no
man who was ever in the Confederate
army can aspire to that Office. We
should get our next candidate from the
West. The talk of Mr.. Cleveland for
third term. under anv conditions,
has no basis. The people will not
make that break in the record. His
views on the financial question are
not shared by the people. and the con-
ditions will be in many other ways
different from what they were in
1892
Personally, Mr.. Crisp regrets the
manner in which the silver issue is be
ing forced to the front. This is an
off year." he said, and it is fully SIX
months before the campaign Of 1896
can be intelligently entered upon, and
if the dicussion is continued, as now
seems to be inevitable. it subjects us
to campaign which will cover near
ly two years of political excitement;
Personally, would have preferred
that all discussion should have been
postponed until the coming winter,
when. under the conditions that will
then exist, wecould enter upon the race
which will be run for the supremacy
in this country.
From the time of the tariff commits
sion of 1880 down to year ago-tour-
teen vears-the cry for tariff reform
had its varying fortunes, resulting at