The age-herald., 1899-04-07
THE LATE SPEAKER CRISP
rom the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution. The Washington Post, of recent date, had
 the following editorial:
 writer in the Louisville Courier-Jour-
 nal, whose knowledge of history is sadly Tn need or repairs, says Crisp was scheming
 for senatorship when he died" The late charles F. Crisp declined an appointment to the senate at the hands of Governor Northen, but later on made a canvass of the state Of Georgia with Hon. Hoke Smith h which an election to the highest legisla tive body was involved. Had MT Crisn lived he would have been accorded a unani nous election. The Courier Journal cannot nope to make much progress in it's, effort to regain the confidence of the democracy as long as it filings such slurs at its dist:n- guished dead.
 In commenting upon the Courier-Jour-
 naFs article, the Atlanta Journal of Fri
 day said of the late Speaker Crisp's cand.-
 dacy for the senatorship..
 He made an avowed, open and ags-ressive
 contest for the senatorship; he never schemed for it.
 More than this, before he died he had tho satisfaction of knowing that a large maior- ny Of the people of Georgia favored bis election to the senate, and had he lived a iaw months longer his would probably have oeen the only name presented to the demo-
 cratic caucus when it was called upon to name its candidate for senator No bolder or more open fight for a sara
 torshlp was ever made than that which Charles Frederick Crisp conducted in tho l close of his career - The Journal takes especial pleasure in sdylis this because in that contest it was
 not an advocate of Judge Crisp's election
 but 1t admits the fact that he was inc choice Of an overwhelming majority of the democrats of this state and cannot be silent when writer who knows nothing about the matters makes a fling at the man who was unqueStionably the most popular citj- zen of this state when he died, This is well said, and it perfectly ax presses the situation with but one excep- | t1on. It was not necessary for Speaker | Crisp to have lived flew months lonser,, | Tn order that his name might have been | presented to the democratic caucus of ina | general assembly of Georgia with the probability" that this would have been the "only name presented"
 This distinguished and lamented Georgian
 died on the 23d of October, 1898, and the members of the Georgia legislature were
 then gathering in the city of Atlanta. that body assembling only five days later Long before the legislature met it was
 certain that Speaker Crisp would have no opposition for the senatorship-a position WHICH ne nau decllned year before when offered him by Governor Northen on the death of Senator Colquitt, because he felt
 that he could not, in justice to his party | colleagues in the national house. surrender
 the gavel at that time, thus precipitatfng | an unfortunate contest for the speakership at time when all elements harmonized in | his undisputed leadership.
 | After having canvassed the state on the | adjournment of the house, Speaker Crisp l was greeted with such an ovation as is sell | dom accorded any man in public life He | carried every county in which he spoke, | literally storming the ramparts of the op- | position, and when the legislature met there 1 was nothing between him and the United | States senatorship but the formal ballot. 1 That was a simple question of days, and l not months, and had 1t been taken during | his life, the names of every one of the 2l9 | members of the general assembly would | have answered to Charles F. Crisp on the l roll call for senator.
 | A glorious achievement 1t was for a man whose name has been rendered immortal by | his brilliant service to his party and his state.