People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — HOKE SMITH AND MR. CRISP. [ARTICLE]

HOKE SMITH AND MR. CRISP.

Third of the Joint Financial Discussions Held in Georgia. Newnan, Ga., April B.—The third of the joint financial discussions between Secretary Hoke Smith and ex-Speaker Crisp was listened to here Tuesday by an audience of about 4,000, chiefly farmers from the surrounding country. Both the speakers are suffering from throat trouble and have been forbidden by the specialists who are treating them front speaking on successive days. In consequence the debate set for tomorrow has been declared off, and the two financial champions will meet next in Albany on Friday. Ex-Bpeaker Crisp replied to the charge, that he had not always been f<.,r silver. He said that when he was elected- speaker lie was bitterly opposed by the east on account of his financial views. His vote prevented, he said, the tabling of a free-coinage -bill. In the last congress, he said, he appointed a silver committee, and one member changed his views. He nas not responsible for that. Men often changed their views. The secretary of the interior was cheered on being introduced. “Judge Crisp." he said in the outset, “has •sought to create the impression that I am opposed to the use of both gold and silver. I am in favor of that system which will give us the largest use of both. I deny that unlimited silver coinage will give us bimetallism.”