Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-25
ton which cost him time and trouble to
prepare
MIR. Cookies Address.

Mir. COOKIES address to the people oil
Virginia, which we published yesterday,
Is plain. well-worded, and worthy OF pc
rusal. Nevertheless, there Is nothing in
IL which will cause Gov. MCKINNEY to
change his expectation OF "walk over
for the Democrats next fall. In fact, we
cannot imagine upon what Mr.. Cooke
bases his hope that he will be the next
Governor Of Virginia.
Mr.. OooKE arraigns the money-power
for having made war upon silver, and
declares that this war caused all our
monetary troubles. Inasmuch as it is
the Republican party, and not the Demo
cratic party, that has thus executed the
behests Of the money.power. the Demo
Gratis may or may not deem it incum-
bent upon them to discuss the matter.
If Mr.. Cooke has any hope whatever OF
being the next Governor, it must DO be-
cause he expects to be supported by the
Republican party, and, particularly, by
the colored contingent OF that party.
The Democratic votes that he will get
will be few in number. When, there
fore, he declares, as he does, that the
cause of our present distress has culmi-
mated IN the effort to demonetize silver,
he brings a charge against tho Republi-
can party, without whose votes the Peo-
ple's-party candidate cannot carry a
dozen counties, perhaps, not half-a-dozen.
1t is rather amusing than otherwise to
find candidate circumstanced as Mr..
Cooke is. seriously attempting to make
the voters believe that the Democratic
party is responsible for the anti-slver
legislation which the Republicans
put upon the statute-book IN various
forms. When Mr.. COOKE calls upon the
people to align themselves with one or
the other Of the two parties Of which he
speaks, and describes the features of
those two parties, he simply calls atten-
ton to the fact that it was the anti-Re-
publican party. or the party opposed to
the Democratic party, which ruined the
country by receiving its orders in Wall
street. The Democratic party had not
been in possession of the government
for thirty years before the lth of March
last.
Therefore, though as Mr.. Cooke
charges, the money-power may DO de-
handing "gold and gold alone" as
money, he cannot say that this remark
is true of the Democratic party Of Vir-
gina.
Mr.. Cooke says that we "must
have no fraud stains, no dark spots
our map of Virginia" We
would fain hope that he did not mean
to charge that the Democratic people OF
Virginia, with whom he has, we suppose,
heretofore affiliated had been guilty OF
election frauds Yet his language will
bear this construction, for he says ex-
pressly, "it is known and read Of all
men that those spots are there"
Mr.. Cooke rather unnecessarily de-
clares that the immigrants who come to
Virginia must be protected in all their
rights, and we began TO think that he
had not claimed as much for the negroes;
but We soon came upon his declaration
that this right must be guaranteed to
every citizen OF this State to-day" Chat
is, every negro.
Mr.. Cooke says he asks nothing for
except the Governorship we
suppose we may add. When, however.
he asks for nothing, he asks just what
he will get.
We regret to have to part company"
with such men as Mr.. Cooke but we
cannot DO otherwise. We stand "super
antiques Was" ave go where Demo
cratic principles lead"