Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-09
Governor Cameron Sustained.

the statement that Mr.. EVERETT
EARLY had made it known in that
town on Wednesday that he was pre-
pared to do JOHN S. WIsE's fighting on
that occasion. We assume that there
is but one EVERETT EARLY there, and
that consequently the author Of the
following letter, who boldly proclaims
that he is q Republican, is the same
man. lie fully corroborates Governor
CAMERON's letter to Mr.. WOLFF.
We call the attention of MURAT HAL
STEAD to Mr.. EARLY's letter, and ask
for its reproduction in the Commercial
Gazette. We quote from the Je6er-
sonian-as follows:
Editors Jefrsonian You called
my attention to communication from
Virginia which appeared recently in the
Cincinnati Gazette, stating, substan-
TALLY, that Danville and Charlottesville
are towns in which elections are carried
bv murder, intimidation, and fraud.
You desired me, as a resident Repub-
lican, to correct this gross misstate-
msnt, which does great injustice to this
community, and | comply with your
request as an act Of simple justice and
right.
| state for the benefit Of the readers
Of the Cincinnati Gazette, who know
nothing Of me, that, although disabled
ex-Confederate soldier, ] am jealous
supporter Of the present entire Repub-
lican ticket, both gubernstorial and le-
gislative, composed entirely Of ex-Con-
iederate soldiers that during the last
ten years have been repeatedly chair
man of the county organization, once
the party's candidate for Congress, and
twice for the State Senate, and that all
those elections, and all others, for ten
years, were conducted in Charlottes-
Vile with as much fairness as if they
had been held in Cincinnati or Boston.
Furthermore, will say that the tone
Of political sentiment in Charlottesville
and the county Of Albemarle is excep-
tionalIy liberal, and no such thing as =
political murder has ever been charged
as occurring within the limits of our
county save in this libellous commune
cation Of an unknown correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Gazette. Very respect
fully, EVERETT w. EARLY.
Mr.. EARLY doesn't write as if he
felt himself to be either q "pariah y
or an " outcast."
But what contrast between his con-
duct and that Of JOHN S. WISE.
Which Of these two men will the north
ern people credit? Backed up by Mr..
EARLY, Governor CAMERON can well
afford to laugh to scorn all the letters
that anonymous correspondents Of
northern journals can write rejecting
on him in this connection.
But Mr.. WOLFF has also come Out
in defence Of Governor CAMERON. In
the following little paragraph he eilec-
tually disposes of the ridiculous state
ment that he, Republican, had, at The
suggestion Of the Richmond Dispatch
"put up a job " on the Governor. lie
says
1.-The Dispatch being the only news
paper in Virginia that has declined thu
usual courtesy to exchange with thu
Free Lance when requested to do so
could have had no hand in our action.
But Mr.. WOLFF does not conten
himself with that paragraph. Asa Re
publican, he corroborates what tn,
Governor says. We quote again:
with the contradictions Of tn
Press and its Richmond correspondent
that elections in Virginia are fair, W,
have nothing to do, except to say tina
as a lifelong virginian, and as a resi-
dent Of Fredericksburg for ten years
We have never known of and have neve
seen in this locality anything borderin,
on unfairness in the conduct of cleo
tons. 1t is simply our duty to cor
? roborate all, and even more, than tn
: Governor has said, so far as this par
a Of Virginia is concerned
0 Mr.. WoLTz goes on:
/ I'VE are alone responsible for hay
ing drawn from Governor Cameron tn
, opinion that has been so widely adveI
tised and criticised all over the coun
Q try"
Mr.. WoLTz then gives history Q
: the correspondence between himself an
the Governor and reproduces once NOR
the two letters, and then adds:
1--WE are thus explicit in this matter
in order that we may at once, and il
the clearest manner, yindicate what tn,
q Press terms the political task-masters
| of Governor Cameron and the Governor
, himself from the charge made by tn,
! Press that the Governor was forced by
political task-masters to write what be
did.
1--WE alone arc responsible for the let.
ter Of Governor Cameron but not for
his opinions. We forced him SO far
only as to notify him that we will &C.
cept your silence as refutation Of the
charge made by the Tribune and an en-
dorsement Of the denial of the Dispatch
Had the Governor refused for anv
reason to answer our letter, we intended
to say Of bis silence just what We said
We would no more, no less.
1--WE rather expected, and, as will
be observed, intimated, that the Dis
patch had put itself in an awkward
position BY calling the Governor to the
witness-stand.
Certainly neither the Dispatch nor
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