Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — CRISP TO PROFIT BY IT. [ARTICLE]

CRISP TO PROFIT BY IT.

Opponents of the Speaker Out ot Sympathy Will Now Support Him. Washington special: The action of :he Reform Club of New York, in omitsng the Speaker of the House of Representatives from its list of banquet orators, although he was present as a guest, still continues to be a subject of pretty lively comment among the members. The explanation of E. Ellery Anderson. President of the club, that no slight was intended toward Mr. Crisp, and that he ivould have been called upon if it had oeen known that he had prepared an iddress, is not accepted as satisfactory, The fact is that Mr. Crisp was informed by Congressman John DeWitt Warner, if New York, one of the members of the club, that he (Crisp) among other prominent guests would be expected to speak, and this, following his invitation and coupled with the announcement made in the New York papers that he would be one of the orators, led Mr. Crisp to prepare a speech. A press representative who secured a copy of the various speeches in advance called upon Mr. Crisp and the address was furnished without question. President Anderson was informed of this fact by the press representative before the dinner took place, so that his plea of ignorance of the ckcumstance is hardly truthful. The feeling extends even to members as what has been termed the anti-Crisp Faction, and they do not hesitate to say that any gathering of so-called Democrats that would invite as a guest tho present highest Democratic official of the government and then not ask him to speak, although other less conspicuous members of the House were among the orators, should be considered lost to all sense of propriety. When Mr. Crisp entered Representative Hall Monday morning he was loudly applauded. He was given a perfect ovation, the purpose of the demonstrative members being to show their disapproval of Saturday night’s snubbing. The manifestation of resentment toward the Reform Club was quite plain, and if the managers of the New York banquet intended to render Mr. Crisp so unpopular with the members of the House as to kiil him off as a possibility for re-election, they have apparently failed. Democrats who visited Mr. Cleveland came away and said that he was very much annoyed over the incident, especially as it was through him that the Reform Club had issued the inv tation to Speaker Crisp to attend the dinner.