Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-19
GOVERNOR o'FERRALL
Writes Ringing and Patriotic Letter. He Can't Come, But Sends the
 a'ocsin Frem Afar.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,
 GovERNoR's OFFICE,
RICHMOND, Va, July IA, 1894

hlCHMONDt va, July IA, 1o94. Hon. H. Q. Tompkins, Chairman Executive
 Committee, Democratic Party, Montgomery,
 Ala.
 MY DEAR SIR: It is with deep regret that find my health will not permit me to take part in your state canvass.
 For several weeks I have not been well and my physician thinks it would be haz- ardous for me to engage in political can- vass at this time.
 So great is my friendship for Colonel Oates and SO intense is my interest in the success of the democratic party in your state that yield to the advice of my phy- sician most reluctantly. l was exceed ingly anxious to aid in some measure in defeating the unholy coalition which seeks to destroy democratic supremacy in Ala bama and turn her people over to Kolbism, and to contribute my mite in elevating my friend to the position he has earned so well by his long and distinguished services in congress, his steadfast devotion to his state and the cardinal principles of our government.
 Virginia some years since was made to drink the bitter cup of Mahoneism. Her material interests were paralyzed, her progress checked, hor fountains of justice polluted and her sacred altars of memory desecrated. Her skies were darkened, her industries were stopped and capital fled from her borders as from a cline of intec- tions and plaques.
 Alabama is threatened with the same dire calamity. Kolbism in Alabama is what Mahoneism was in Virginia Malone de- clared on the floor of the United States senate that he was "a better democrat than Ben Hill,' yet with the same ease with which Eve went into Adam's bosom, Ma hone glided into the republican camp and became the relentless enemy of the tradi. tions of his people and the best interests of his state. Kolb proclaimed himself ia Jeffersonian democrat, ' yet he is in league with every enemy to the principles which Jefferson advocated and made his name immortal, and, like Malone, willlbe found spurred, before the frosts of another win ter, if by chance he should succeed in the coming election, and then the people of Alabama will be made to suffer the same woes and to tread the same wine press of sorrow of the Virginia people under the regime of Malone.
 Virginia with her sad experience warns her sister state against embracing the vag- aries and fallacies of populism under the cloak of Jeffersonian democracy; she raises her voice in warning against false proph- cts, ''wolves in sbeeps' clothing," itiner- ant time- servers and predatory political cossacks. She has suffered and speaks with wisdom gained in the fiery furnace of atf1ction. She has seen the terrible con-. sequences of departure from democratic
 
 men with republicanism, under the leader ship of demagogues, and the wrestling of the reins of government from democratic hands, She has felt the hot iron of such combination in her very soul and she speaks with the earnestness of genuine love for her sister state, to whom she is linked by glorious memories and united by the steely hands of m utual interests.
 am sure that can promise that never again will the Old Dominion State be found haN lot xuJvtL Ia 1N racy. Her loyal sons were caught mapping once, butforever hereafter there will be no sleeping sentinel. Her misguided sons of 1881 have nearly all returned to the fold. few have strayed off into the camp of the populists, but their desertion has only stimulated tho true and tried to greater ex- ertion aud vigilance.
 Last fall democracy triumphed over pop- ulsm and republicanism combined by the unprecedented majority of nearly 50, 1000. We are divided upon some minor matters such as the money question-but we are united upon the great fundamental prin- ciples which constitute the foundation of the party founded by Jefferson, maintained by Madison, sustained by Monroe and the bright galaxy that have shed halo around it in the past, and now upheld by Cleve- land-a statesman without guile and pa- triot with out selfishness.
 We know that the democratic party has been our shield in the past; that it has stood as mighty breakwater between the south and the angry waves of malice of the north; that the rights we possess and the blessings we enjoy came to us through it's steadfastness and devotion to our welfare; that 1t has ever been the party of tho peo- pie, the friend of labor and the implacable enemy of monopolistic oppression; that the constitution is it's platform and the faith of the fathers it's creed, and that it has the and will to rescue our land from the consequences of long years Of republi- can legislation and relieve it from the de- pression and blight of republican misrule, and 50 knowing, feeling and believing, the people of this commonwealth will worship DO false gods, embrace no wild theories nor phantom doctrines, nor cast their fortunes with any so-called new party which, like the gourd of the prophet, may spring up ia a night under the magic hand of some self constituted Moses.
 May the people of Ala tama, so true and loyal to the right in the past, so firm in democratic faith, so constant in war and in peace, so grand m traditlons, so glorious constitution and save their fair land so rich in material wealth, so strong in nat ural resources, so fertile in soil ard Bosi beautiful in landscape, from the hands pft the despoiler. God forbid that they shoulh [ like the Jews when besieged by the Rb- mans under Titus, turn upon and devohr each other and thereby render themseves an easy prey to the rapacity of republican, -l ism, and see the fires of their furnacesi quenched, the mouths of their min|es sealed, their fields bighted and grass grow -g ing in the streets of their cities. Yss,i may their eyes be opened to behold the, long train of evils tha'-wi surely foll9w the downfall of democracy and the supreln acy of the combination of Kolb n, sp1p- -t eiism and republic inism. si Looking with bright hopes of grand7 and glorious triumph for your state ,ick9t. and again expressing my deepest regfets that cannot be with you, l remain, very n truly yours, CHAs. T. O'FERRALLs ,f Take Bromo- Seltzer for insomnia Hl
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