The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-27
SENATOR DANIELS MANCHESTER
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law in mis- speech ia Manchester Thurs
day night Senator Daniel is reported to
have spoken thus:
81 am a. great admiror and believer OF
brave men ana of honest men. 90 great
virtue is honesty and 1t condones an
errors OF judgment, and 80 splendld 10
vaior that when it puts it's hand in the
hand Of honesty II rises up into soIhelilhs
that is godlike. Now, my feliow-ciliZehs'
while / thus admire honesty ana courage
there Is one thing that / nave always
observed about brave men and honest
mon-that they never go around through
tho world advertising and proclaimlns
themselves brave and honest. And when
a man comes to me and says, My dear
sir. YOU can trust me, 1 would not cheat
Won. | am honest / say, watch him
And whenever a man swaggers around
and talks about how brave he Is, l GER
tainIy would watch him If there was any
difficulty ahead.
"Nien who are honest and brave take
II for granted that the great body OF
society is honest and brave, and do not
think Of advertising. When i see fell
low going through a crowd saying that
he is for honest money and for honest
elections | say Scratch him on the back,
and you will find a goldbug under one
coat-tail and a fellow who is boiling the
democratic party under the other
Since the question in hand was honest
or fraudulent elections, it was entirely IN
order for the Senator 10 deliver his views
OF men who lay claims TO honesty in
their convictions and practices. But 1t
is entirely in order to ask, apropos de
quot is this homlly upon the man who
laws claims TO valor? one can surely
claim. that he is passing honest and
still be exempt from the charge that he
overvaunts his courage; or is it the habit
of some advocate of honesty in our cleo
lions TO boast that he is both brave and
honest and if such an one there be. WHO
Is he? Whom had the Senator in mind
when he drew this picture?
The Senator tells US that when II see
a fellow going through a crowd saying
that he is for honest money and for
honest elections. l say, Scratch him on
the back, and you will find goldbug
under one coat-tail and fellow who Is
boiling the Democratic party under the
other"
We are not sure that we altogether
catch the Senator's meaning here. We
are not sure whether he means TO say
that a sound money, honest-elections man
is a kind Of dual Persona sort of IT.
Jekyl-Mr. Hyde or that part the OF him
that resides under one coat-tail is one
kind of man, as fish. for instance, ana
the part of him that resides under the
other part of the coat-tail is another kind
or man, as flesh or fowl, for instance.
But whichever he means, we VIII tell him
that he Is perfectly right in expecting TO
find what he calls a "godbug' in men
who are for sound money, though he Is
as wrong as he generally gets on public
questions when he expects Democrat
who favors honesty in our elections TO
be a bolter from the Democratic party.
We insist that the true Democrat is an
unyielding advocate OF honesty in our
elections. and that he always proclaims
his opinion upon this point when 1t is in
order for him TO speak on IL, whether
he is going through a crowd or sitting
in his nome, in the bosom of his family.
instructing his children in the way they
should walk through life. Such man
has no more idea of boiling the Demo
cratic party" than he has Of abandoning
his home and Senator Daniel is not COM
mending his own Democracy, especially
when he makes this sneering reference
TO those who beseech their fellow-Demo-
Gratis to purify our party and compel it
TO abandon those fraudulent practices in
our elections which bad men have intro
duced and have made only too common
in 1t. The more intensely a man is a
Democrat, the more intensely he desires
to see his party freed from any possible
connection with fraudulent elections; and
the more intense his convictions are upon
the subject, the more ready he is to dis
cuss IL. and to declare his views upon all
proper occasions.