Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-10
WEAVER AND FIELD.
General Field Surprise-The Platform.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.l

From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The nominees Of the
Omaha convention were generally discussed at
the Capitol to-day, and the prevailing opinion is
that the Third party made a very poor selection
In General Weaver 10 head the ticket. General
Weaver Is we'll known here. General Field Is
unknown here, except to some Of the southern
men.
Hon. Charles T. O'FerraIl has been looking into
some OF the utterances of General Weaver, and
below will be- found a talk which the DISPATCH
correspondent had with the distinguished VIZ
GINA congressman, in which he makes comments
and puts forth certain records that ought TO be
very interesting reading at this time for the
Democrats Of the Old Dominion.
POLITICAL JACK o. LANTERN.
"What do you think OF the Omaha or Third
party nominations7" Colonel Oferral was
asked.
"Well. there is nothing startling or alarming
In them. Weaver is well known rs q political
Jack o. Lantern--a man who has been every
thing by turns and nothing long, First he was d
sourh-cursing, 'rebel-damning' Republican,
then a GreenDacker, then knight OF Labor,
then a Democrat, then an Alliance man, ani
now Third-partyite. His cranky antics IN tho
Fiitieth Congress are too fresh 10 the minds OF
the people TO require mention. IL will be re-
membered how he for days tied up tho House on
the Oklahoma bill. 10 one understanding az the
timo why no was so persistent, but his zeal was
fully explained afterwards"
BLACKLIST or TIE BLACK.
awhile he was sim Republican he used the
following CHOICE and elegant expressions Ia re-
gard 20 the DemoCi attic party:
a. We know that its acts comprise murder,
treason, theft. arson, fraud, perjury, and all
crimes possible for an organization to connive
at.
"1his was in a speech at Bloomfield, septem-
Der 26th, 1869.
..It would be n mercy to put its record a mr.
10 fR IN f.it Ia I'D IN
Holy Writ; and | may add that II a large and
distinguished apartment Of its alleged states
men we're sent along IL would only be common
Justice
:" The same old gang, save those who rere shot
hung, are again conspiring 70 get possession OF
the government next year. Woo 10 themi for
the loyal hosts will crush them.'
"'No Republican can ever under any circum-
stances have any part or lot with the hungry,
rebeli,ous, nsdn-hdfinG, ing gang corpo-
rated under the name OF Democracy--a name 20
full Of stencil and poison that IL should be blottei
from the vocabulary OF civilized mao and Ia nded
over TO the barbarian that it 70 itly now and in
all the past has ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS az Look
out, September 20, 1871.
.Buf, then, what could you expect frora the
poor, blind. diseased. decrepit, dismal, damned
old Democrats party T-speech at stiles, Sep
tember IL, 1873.
.Thess aud other similar extracts from bis
speectes were read In his hearing on the floor
OF tne HOuse VI Acpto3cnthti'c., Jul! ~, 1850,
when he declared as follows: Il have nothing
10 take back With regard 70 aIy course.
I" In the foriy-sixth, Forty-nlnth, aud Fftieth
Congresses ne introduced bills 10 pay 20 all
soldiers. sailors, teamsters. and musicians Of the
la-e wEr the differences between gracnbacxs,
the currency IN watch they were paid. aud the
STANDARD gold coin OF the United States. aud to
appropriate s300,0o0,00 for this purpose
"lhis Is the ,Aan for whom southern men are
asked 10 vote
Ais nomination win create no more Of a
ripple upon the surface OF the waters In Virginia
than pebble dropped In the Potomac.r
SUDDEN CONVERSION.
~what about The second place on the ticket ~
Colonel 0'ferran wss asked.
"Gvneral field lives In my district was the
reply.
"About ten years ago he was the Attorney
General Of Virginia. He u stili . pracsicing