Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-28
GIVES HIS VIEWS ON SILVER.
The Best and Easiest Solution Is an lnterna-
 tional Conference.
LESS OF THE ELEMENT OF EXPERIMENT.
Ho Says in the Next Campaign tho Rehabili- tation of Silver Will Be the Main and Controlling Feature The Party's
 Platform Should Be Plain

Atlanta. Ga, April 27.-opeaker Charles F. Crisp, in an interview at his home in Americus, declared himself today to a staff correspondent of the Constitu- tion in favor of the free coinage of sil- yer He believes the democrats should nominate a western man with military record for president, and says the party should not nominate 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 expects to leave shortly for Asheville.
 "The platform" said MT Crisp observ- antly, 'should declare for the free coin age of silver direct, and with set of principles responding to the demands of the common people. We should select some good man from the west some man with a military record identified with the dominant sentiment that now con trols the party, and go forth with conh- dence to victory, which the people al- ways give those who are brave enough to fight for it. The only fear 1 have is not that the people are not in favor of free silver, but that the free silver people, who are the majority, may divide into factions, running two or three candi- dates in which event the election would be thrown into the house, which would elect republican.
 Such a contest as I have outlined would cause many people to make new party alignments. There are democrats strongly welded to the gold theory 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 repu blicanS of the west want silver. The realignments will be as interesting as they will be puzZling but to the lot tery of politics the whole issue must be committed.
 You have observed of course, the rapidity with which the silver move ment has spread since congress ad- Journed ?''
 "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 interna- tional conference. That would be the best and easiest method of re-esta blish- ing silver, and with less of the element of experiment in it If such conference should be called and it took action re- storing silver, so that the people would be satisfied, then we would have the final issue for 1896. In the meantime, however, the people of the-United States will be moving along to that result in their own constitutional way. The people want the free coinage of silver; am in favor of it's free coinage, as have always been, and the democratic voters will declare. for it next year."
 Must Come From the West
 There is some talk" it was suggested. that you may be a candidate for the presidency next year,
 T see" said MT Crisp, smilingly, that for want of better subject many news papers are printing editorials on that line Not in the lifetime of the generation now passing off the stage will southern man be elected. The question of residence for long time to come will be controlling one and no man who was ever in the Confederate army can aspire to that off, flee. We should get our next candidate from the west The talk of MT. Cleve- land for third term. under any condi- tions. 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 conditions will be made in other ways different from what they were in 1S92.''
 Personally, MT. Crisp regrets the man. her in which the silver issue is being forced to the front.
 Yes" was his reply, "and to be frank at the outset, l regret it. This is an off year. It is fully six months before the campaign of 1896 can be intelligently en- tered upon, and if the discussion is con- tinued, as now seems to be inevita ble 1t subjects us to a campaign which will cover nearly two years of political ex- citement. Personally I would have pre- ferred that all discussion should have been postponed until the comig winter when under the conditions that would then exist we could enter upon the race which will be run for supremacy in this country. From the time of the tariff commission of 1880 down to year ago fourteen years the cry of tariff reform had it's varying fortunes, resulting at last in a revision which believe will be so acceptable to the people that there will be no general movement made upon it for years to come The disposition of the tariff clears the way for the settle ment of the silver question.
 That question:" said Mr. Crisp em- phatically, lis now fully before us."
 will it be the one issue before the people next year?"
 It Is the One Issue.
 Tt will,'' said he, land in such way that it must be settled directly; not by subterfuge or evasion, but openly, so that the people may understand 1t. It will not down. The fact that progress irl silver rehabilitation has been slow should not be disc6dragifig. This is a big country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. with probably 7O.OO0,O00 of the most civilized people in the world. The basis of Il with us the will of the people,
 When, after years of discussion and