The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-31
BRYAN AND CRISP.
The Former Explains His Altitude |
 Most Satisfactory Manner:

The Former Explains His Altitude in
 NEost safisfactoFy Manner:
 Americus (Ga),. Special to Atlanta
 Judxe q R' Crisp has received a let ter from William Jennings Bryan with reference to the charge that he failed to support Mr. Crisp's father in his contest for the speakership Of the House of Representatives.
 Judge Crisp in speaking of the let-
 T was my fathers confidential seo- retary and in Washington with nm nm with him the four years he was speak CT of the House of Representatives; l know the facts referred to In MT Bryan's letter in regard to ais votes i in the speakership contests of the hftv- second and third Congresses to be correct. Mir, Bryan and father were warm friends. On one occasion MT. Bryan came to Americus and was
 MT. Bryan's letter to Judge Crisp Is
 Lincoln, Neb., July IS. 1sos---Judge Charles R. Crisp: Your very kind let gratuiations and good wishes. remem- bering, as I do, the acquaintance form. ed when you were with your father al Washington. am glad. too. that you from time to time been circulated by malicious enemies for the last twelve years. ... ...,., in your letter. When at Jacksonville, H., lived in Congressman Springers district. I had campaigned for him, and when I visited Washington. in the spring of 1887. he showed me every he was a candidate for speaker, l wrote to him and told him that 1t would give me great pleasure to sup port him, and did all I could for him. T,t.. aonAfdafan a a you remember. your father and Mir Mills I never liked the band wagon habit in politics. and remained with MT. Springer to the end. It was not because of any prejudice against either your father or Mir Mills. That was in the caucus-when the election came up in the House, l voted for your father, as the roll call will show. In father in the caucus. and also on roll call In the House. He appointed me on the Ways and Means Committee. at MT. Springer's request. and personally question. stating that ] had justified his selection of me. He reappointed me on the Ways and Means Committee in the next House. Our relations were and he never had a more sincere ad- mirer When l went to Washington. I did not know the public men except as had read of them, and my aequain- LAQCS WlLn yOuE IALnCt COhfAhSCN 4AAN that no mistake had been made in his selection. He was pre-eminently a leader among Democrats.
 ''Nothing but the most malignant of the charges that I am prejudlced against southern Democrats. Every southern man with whom I have served in Congress is able to contradict this. I have no more loyal friends than these men from the southern states. Im- mediately after my nomination In lss6. I was consulted in regard to the vice presidency. l told them that had no suggestions to make. but that l would venture to make one statement and that was if they saw fit to nomi- rate a southern man for vice presi- dent, l would have no objection. was perfectly wiling in 1900 to have a nomination of Senator .Cockrell. an ex-Confederate soldier, for presl- dent, and stated a year ago, in an edt- torial in The Commoner, that no req sonable objection could be urged to the nomination of a southern man for president l expressed to a number Of those who were in attendance at the Denver convention my willingness to have a southern man nomIn1ted for vice president If there is one sin If which 1 am entirely free, 1t is the sin of sectionalism. l have insisted for years that it does not matter where the candidate comes from, but that what he stands for should determine hIs selection.
 "But there Is better proof than any of these of my lack of prejudice. l live in a city where there are scarce ly any ex-Confederate, and yet in 1893, three years before I was a candidate for president, l recommended an ex- Confederate soldier. MT. J. D. Calhoun. for postmaster at Lincoln. He was at that time editor of a Democratic week ly paper, and had been one of my most cordial supporters. I did not Tecom- mend him merely because he had been an ex-Confederate. but the fact that he had been a Confederate soldier did not weigh against him when I was considering the claims of different Candidates. I thought he deserved the place. and tried to secure his appoint ment.
 sAgain thanking you for your sx.