The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
,,oTHTNG IN HOUSE OR CAUCUS
pECORDS TO PROVE THE En-
CONFEDERATE HATRED.
MADE A CAREFUL SEARCH

what Is Shown From the Minutes
as TO the Course Taken by Mr..
Rrvan at the Time of the Election
Of Speaker Crisp, Who Was a
Friend of the Nebraskan.
A special dispatch from Washing
Inn TO the Baltimore Sun says:
An effort is being made to con-
,,ince southern men that Hon. Will
ham J. Bryan, again a candidate for
fhe presidency, has no admiration
for the soldier of the confederacy,
and that he even went so far as to
rofnse to vote for Charles F. Crisp
of Georgia for speaker of the fifty
second congress because the latter
was distinguished ex-confederate.
This allegation is repeated in a
signed dispatch from Thomas e. Wat
son. the populist candidate for the
presidency, to the New York World
which also appeared in the Sun this
morning. The allegation is denied
both by Mr. Bryan's friends and by
independent democrats in Washing
ton, as we'll as by Mr.. Bryan himself,
who received from a North Carolina
editor dispatch reading:
Tom Watson quotes you as saw
ing YOU would never vote for a con-
federate veteran. Does this misrep-
Il resent yOu?'
The reply Mr.. Bryan sent to this
inquiry was that he never had made
any such statement; that he had vOt-
ed for a confederate veteran for
q speaker of the house of representa-
Il tiyes on three occasions; that he had
N voted for Mr.. Crisp twice on roll
n calls first in the fifty-second con-
gress and again in the fifty-third con-
q gress and voted in caucus for him
in the ffty-third congress. He rec
& commended former confederate for
81 postmaster at Lincoln, and while in
congress enjoyed the best relations
with the former confederates.
=
The reply which Mr. Bryan sent to
the North Carolina editor is borne
out by the official records. These
records show that Tom" Watson
was member of the same f1fty-sec-
Ond congress with Mr.. Bryan, and
that while Mr.. Bryan is on record
as having voted for Mr.. Crisp for
speaker Mr.. Watson, who was in
congress with Mr.. Crisp did not him
self voter for his fellow-member from
\ Georgia
Until recently the charge had
leyer been heard in Washington.
There are few politicians now in
Washington, but if congress were in
Session it is claimed by those who
Rre here that the allegation could
faSily be disproved by many men who
Fere in the thick of the famous
Speakership fight in the fifty-second
congress, such men as Hon. Hillary
T. Herbert of Alabama, now prac-
long law here, but at that time
& hartman OF the house naval affairs
committee under appointment of
9peaker Crisp, and also Hon. James
Richardson of Tennessee, who now
AFeS IN Washington, as the ranking
1cotbsh Rite Mason of the country
- VINO was an ardent supporter of
Sehton Mcmillan OF Tennessee in the
- Speakership fight. But both
e'sfS, Herbert and Richardson are
- lhe former being in the prov
t. oI ontario, Canada, and the lat
dl MurfreesbOrO, Tenn.
OoI, X, D. Bright than whom there
no better posted man on political
'JecJS IN Washington, son of form
senator Bright of Indiana. and
- was Colonel RansdelTs prede-
''' aS Sergeant-at-arms of the SEN
Sa'u 10 the correspondent of the
'udI the charge made by Mr..
"'son ana circulated by others in
S9uJh Tor the purpose of iniur-
NF. Bryan's candidacy was alb
a, anu entirely without foundation.
I-I"G 81 Bright is thoroughly familiar
!" lUe inside details of the speak
a4,. ' ,'SHJ. He says he recalls dis
N.Y. no" MIR. Bryan voted and that
never heard the charge of opposf-
ans door. - ~ AZ ''
what Watson Charged.
me charge made by Mr. Watson
a's dispatch is:
o... q. native of Illinois, refused
MS \ote for Crisp for speak