The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-10-06
nv row,er's Blunders.

vrbcp Sneaker FOWLER arrived In Char
,oste county, Ms he did last Monday, he
must have thought that he had come into q
land OF ignorance. Not otherwise can we
account for the miserable efforts which he
Il reported TO have made to deceive the
voters. We notice some Of his points as
reported by the Charlotte Gazette:
1. Mr.. FOWLER said that In the South
west the people were almost unanimously
Coalitionists.
Nobody knows better than Mr.. FOWLER
that IN his own county Of Washington the
FrIxERsoN men and Democrats are in the
majority. But the wish was father to Fow-
LER's thought, and his great anxiety for
success may have led him to deceive him.
self. Let that pass. But now we come to
what we call downright impudence
2. Mr.. FowLER is reported as follows;
"Now, / am an Arthur man. l am for
the Administration as long as 1t is for us.
What Is Mr.. Arthur doing, or the Admin.
istration doing, with the currency That
has rested upon two legs-gold and silver.
Mr.. Bayard wants TO destroy this bi-metal-
lie currency, so that when you want gold
dollar you must pay dollar and quarter
in SILVER for t. But that does not suit inc
workingmenT -
We call the attention OF the Stalwarts OF
the North, nearly all of whom are mono
metallists, 10 this astounding statement.
The silver bill was vetoed by Republican
President and passed over his veto by the
Democrats, aided by Republicans. 1t is
the ARTHUR men il anybody who want the
currency to rest upon but one leg. 1t was
the Democrats who supplied the silver lee.
II is the ARTHUR men who want the poor
man TO pay dollar and quarter OF silver
for a dollar OF gold. 1t was the Democrats
that made, and forced western Republicans
TO help them TO make, silver dollar as good
as a gold dollar. Silver and gold are equal
the one to the other in the custom-hOuses
and In the interpal-revenue offices. There
fore they are equal the one to the other
everywhere else in the United States. y
dollar due the Government can be paid
with a silver dollar. That fact makes sill
yer dollar equal TO gold dollar. "Things
which are equal to the same thing are equal
TO one another" Silver and gold being
being both equal to the Government dollar
are equal TO one another for all practical
purposes. 1t was the Democrats that made
them so. Let us look little into the his
tory OF the silver question, so far as Vir-
ginia public men are concerned.
In the House Of Representatives on the
question Of overriding Mr.. HAYEs's veto
OF the silver bill, every Democrat from Viz
ginia who was present voted in the aflrma-
tiye-namely, MeSsrs. TUCKER, GOODE,
GILBERT c. WALKER. j. Il. HARRIS, Hun
TON. and PRIDEMORE. In the Senate both
the Virginia senator's JOHNSTON and WITH
ERs-voted to override the veto. whilst Mr.
BLAINE, Mr.. CONKIING, Mr.. HOAI, Mr..
DAWES, Mr.. HAMLIN, and other Republic
cans voted TO sustain the veto. We do not
claim that the question was party one
but no one can deny that the Republicans
are as q party mono-metallists-that is, in
favor OF making nothing but gold a legal
tender and receivable for customs dues
whilst the Democrats as 4 party desire that
both gold and silver shall be received for
all debts due the Government.
But the platforms Of the two parties in
1880 show more clearly the true state OF the
case. The Democratic platform came out
boldly as follows for:
"Honest money, consisting OF gold and
Silrer, and paper convertible into coin mot
into gold onlyl on demand"
The Republican platform said not word
about silver, but claimed that the Republic
can party had raised the paper currency "t0
q par loih gold" The Republican Ma
tional Convention also endorsed HAYEs's
AdministratiOn-th same HAYES who We
toed the silver bill.
Mr.. FOWLER is reported to have said:
"Mr. Massey is in favor of rekindling
all this sectional feud."
Mr.. FOWLER is also reported as follows:
"Then, instead OF giving all sections of
the State il chance in his Office he Mr. Mas
seyl wanted to appoint his own family"
Mr.. FOWLER knows that these two state
ments are untrue. We would fain hope
that he was misunderstood.
Let the next Democrat who meets Mr..
FOWLER remind him OF the blunders he
made in Charlotte county.