Show Watterson Scores Crisp LouIsvILLE Dec 23In the CourierJour nal tomorrow Mr Watterson will have an editorial on Speaker Crisp and the new committees He will say in part For the first time in the history of the Democratic Demo-cratic party In Congress Is the principle laid down that the organization of the House is a matter not of friendly rivalry among friends but of personal agrandlze mont and factional power We had hoped for better things A stronger man than Crisp might have paused before giving himself and party over to this1 Watterson says Springer has not show any peculiar capacity to lead the House His selection smacks too much of the discharge dis-charge of an obligation and pretext to turr down and degrade the man who has don a eminent work in a great movement and who has enjoyed the confidence of Demo sgts everywhere Watterson speaks of the intimations that there was a deal of the SEOCLATJON SEW YORK 1ATTEKN between the new speaker and Governor Hill and backers by which Democratic principles arc to sacrillccd to congressional ind presidential bargains Then indeed will the hosts of the Democracy rise in heir might and in their wrath scatter these Impious despoilers of truth and faith like a ierd of cattle The future alone can determine deter-mine this but the present is no time for mincing words it is the time for plain slk The speaKers experiment starts out with UMOST UNIVERSAL DISTRUST OF DEMOCRATS In every cart of the union The overcomIng overcom-ing of this and the establishment of its claim to public confidence can only be ichioved by the display of great earnestness earnest-ness perfect fidelity and undeniable com peiency Mr Crisp should from this time forward keep before his Byes > > the awful spectre of Keifer |