Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-11
DEMOCRATIC VIEWS.
GENERAL w. n. r. LEE AND MAJOR
MARSHALL TALK ABOUT POLITICS.
support the Tominee-What the
Party should DO.

General W ii. F. Lee, member of Con-
gress from the Alexandria district, was in
the city yesterday. He was the guest OF
Major Leigh X. Page. The General came
here on business connected with his pro-
perty. and was met in the Office of Mr. N.
w. Bowe by DISPATCH reporter. When
asked for fve-minutes' political chat he
cheerfully complied.
ITO PRESIDENT.
In reply 10 question IS to who was the
choice Of the people in his district Tor
President he said at once: Tho nominee,
whoever he may be. Up TO the present
time there has been little talk. think.
though, that leaving out all side questions.
Mr. Cleveland is probably the favorlte.
My people are 10 a great extent Tor the Tree
coinage Of silver. or for any measure that
Will tend to relieve financial strlngency.
notice. though. speaking OF the presi-
deucy, that the New York delegation Is al
most entirely opposed TO Cleveland.
There are" continued the General, a
large number of farmers alliances IN nv
district. Nearly all the members OF them
are Democrats, and any part they are
taking in politics is within the party.
THE PARTY POLICY.
II StrlheS me- inc bohSA.SSi,"H ~
on to say, that in a nutshell the policy
OF our party lies in few points.
The first Of these is to subordinate
everything to the party. We must follow
the example of the old Romans who laid
all their local differences aside to war
| against Carthage We must do the same
and beat the common enemy, the Republi-
cans.
Another il we must not consider any
issues on which the party itself IS divided
until after the fight Of 1892. That Will be
| time enough. and we will have the advan-
| tage Of presenting an unbroken front to
the opposition.
AS to our policy in Congress it seems to
me there can be little doubt. What we
| should do is simply 10 assume and MAIN
tain state Of mastery inactivity. We
| should attempt at present no benehcent
| legislation, as that would only be giving
| the Republican Senate chance to divide
| honors with Us. NV idea is that the re-
| cord of the Fifty-frst Congress should be
allowed 10 stand unbroken to show for
| itself. We can. of course. prevent PERM
| cloua legislation, but should attempt no.
thing more
ABOUT THE PENSIONS.
AS to our attempting to make a new
pension bill, il is a matter of impOssiblllty.
Northern Democrats seem to outyle the
Republicans IN their avidity in this direc-
| ton. OF course we all want TO deal fairly
with the soldier who did his duty on the
field Of battle. but the idea OF spending
$50, 600 year for chat purpose IS stu
pendous. As Private John Allen has ex-
pressed 1t in Congress, this has put an en-;
| tircly new aspect on the Confederacy, and
it would seem that all the northern soldiers
| it did not kill il succeeded in hitting;
Having concluded. the General babe the
DISPATCH man adleu.
Views Of "CYclOne Jim"
Just as General Lee was leaving the Of
| fee Major James Marshall of Craig, ahec-
| tiouately known by his people as Cyclone
| jim, the Wildcat of the Mountains came
up. The Major has probably done az much
| hard work for the Democratic party rs any
man in Virginia. and what he does not
know about politics would not prove very
| interesting.
When questioned in about the same line
as General Lee Major Marshall said +:
Really the roads IN our section have been
so bad this winter that the people could
not get 10 see each other, and have had no
| chance to discuss fayorites for Presidents.