Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-25
THE RICHMOND D1spAroH-sUNDAY. FEBRUARY Is, 1894.

nnisreprcseuted his State, wno' ~ "'s
vote In the Senate, endeavorcd TO ensiave
those who had stood with him AZ tne
Crater? We pause for a reply.
Now neighbor. go bodily into tnc ranks
OF those who are the worst enemies OF
v,r~,nia. or else be classed by the Demo-
cratic press and the people Of this grand
oId commonwealth rs 1.-The sorry bird
that befouls its own nest."-Lexington Ga
zette.
The Richmond Times-Wbat IL lit
In its issue OF the ed instant the Rich
mond Times announces its platform. IL
starts out with the proposition, The
Times Is q Democrat" and then proceeds
to define It's principles. Now this plat
form of the Times isn't bad one. Some
blanks are very good. and while we might
take exception to some OF It's propositions.
yet on the whole we are not very far
apart, so far az platform Is concerned.
The trouble about the Times Is It's re-
cord. AS the brakeman remarked to the
somewhat inebriated passenger, who IN
sisted upon enjoying the fresh air outside:
Platforms IL made to git in on-they amt
made to stand on" Just so. All this
pretty talk now will not salve over the
deadly wounds In the back this paper
has been giving its party for the last
four or five months. This record. what
is IT,:
Last August, or September. party CT
gentlemen from Richmond went on to
Washington to interview Senator's Hunton
and Daniel on their position on The repeal
OF the purchaslng-clause of the sherman
law. Senator Daniel, pldIn-sI cFen.
frank. and courageous gentleman, VEN
tured to differ with these gentlemen Oh
the silver question. Immediately on their
retuin to Richmond an article alp are1
IN the Times TO the effect that If Wild
cat money ami financial beresies were 10
b. the policy OF the Democratic party,
IL was time for sound business-ai with
sound theories 30 leave it SO mucn for
rs to france OF difference OF Cp.n'or In the
party. despite the fact that perhaps two
thirds of the Democrats OF Virginia agreed
with Senator Daniel. So much, too, for
its early display OF a readiness to leave
if II could not rule: Colonel O'Ferrall was
chosen Governor Of Virginia by over forty
thousand majority. Next day appears an
editorial attacking the newly-chosen Gov
ernor. This article il based on the asser-
ton. known to be untrue by every we'll
informed Democrat in Virginia, that Col
onel O'Ferrall was nominated by machine
methods when he was not the choice OF
the people Basing its article on this sup
position, which must have been Matched
In very narrow environment OF congenial
souls and not from any touch whatever
with the people OF Virginia. this interest
lag Democratic paper proceeds TO go for the
new Democratic Governor and to read the
party its little lecture. Next day an
editorial appears handling Senator Daniel
without gloves.
A few days later this Democratic paper
inaugurates its campaign against the An
derson-McCormick election-law, and pro-
ceeds In every issue to charge fraud against
its party, filing suppositions and inslnua-
lions as proof, until its interest in this
fouling OF It's own pretended nest Is abb
sorbed or It's greater and delrious interest
In General Lee. Then comes an article
intimating that a subordinate railroad OFF,
cial has bought the Legislature. Next day
this Is withdrawn and apologized for.
Later on the Legislature meets and the
Democratic caucus has the temerity to Sc
lect a man who is not the choice OF the
Times for United States senator Then
comes n continuous and sustained howl OF
fraud. The Legislature has been bought
by the railroads. The members have been
bribed. An investigation is demanded. No
responsible member OF the Legislature
agrees with this view. All deprecate dis
play or the party machinery to the eyes
or the Republicans and Popuists. But the
howl Is kept up, and finally member is
persuaded that his character is questioned
and that he must introduce the resolution
IL Is introduced and passed. The commit
tee investigates. Rumors and gossip are
filed as specifications Confidential COM
munications are ruthlessly and recklessly
paraded on the witness-stand, not as a
proof-that would have been bad enough
but because they supplied limitations Of
intimacy or what not between gentlemen.
and because they were thought TO put
some gentlemen in an unpopular attitude
before the public. or for some other equally
remote and circumstantial object. And the
result. An unanimous verdict against the
Times from n committee. the majority
OF whom voted for its candidate. and vet
1t continues to howl and charge fraud. Ii
talks Of whitewash, and brags Of how II
will yet purify the party.
We take the above from the Charlottes-
vile Progress. which expresses our views
OF tie recent course Of the Richmond
Times In a nutshell-The Amherst New
Era