Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

or WIN raliaferro, esq, died at her
nome IN Newport, Augusta county re-
| Gently.
An alleged French count, calling him
self M. de Lignee, was arrested in Kicn-
r:end Yesterday on charge OF having
committed grand larceny in New YORK.
The home of Mrs. Walton, in Eau
ouier county, was robbed of between
5000 and 5000 recently. Mrs. Walton,
VINO is quite aged, being over eighty
wears old, had kept the money in q
trunk for long time, and was unaware
OF her loss, until one day last week she
opened the trunk for the purpose OF
getting some funds with which to make
purchase. The county authorities
have been furnished with clues, WHICH
they believe will result in the arrest OF
the thieves.
CAMPBELL NOT A CANDIDATE
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, in an
interview has emphatically denied that
ne is a candidate for the democratic
| nomination for the Presidency.
/ Governor Campbell in the course OF
the interview said:
"Every true democrat should, how
| ever, rally at this crisis about the stand
ard of the party. This talk of pos
sible split should cease. These be try
| ing times for the democracy. The
party has met three bitter defeats since
the victories of 1892. It skills not to
/ ask why, or blow in the ashes OF the
past for reasons now. Those defeats
have torn and strained and weakened
l:us. If they are to be followed by split
| In the convention and assertions at the
polls then are the days of democracy
numbered and the end is at hand.
say it with firmness, for it Is my un
qualified belief that should the party
| be split at the Chicago convention the
party has met it death. 1t is for that
reason that exhort every true man oil
the faith to stand by the democracy
throughout the next campaign. We may
fail, but let US fail and fall together. Do
not let US annihilate the party in ad-
vance by the suicide of a split.
Every man who goes as delegate to
the next convention should go there
pledged to support the candidate and
accept the platform of that convention
No matter who may be named to make
tae canvass no matter what the plat
form may contain, they should be &C
| cepted, and the only hope of party
continuation lies in their acceptance. "A
J delegate who goes TO Chicago with the
[ inteEtion to stay if the majority agree
Nth him and accept his candidate
or make his platform, whether on
cuance, tariff, or what else; who means
| to bolt if his notion of men and meas
ures is voted down, is traitor in adj
vance. He has no business in the con-
vention. He should stay at home.
If the platform declares for lndepen-
dent free silver coinage 16 to 1-silvel
recommendation, il you please-and
| the utter death of gold as a money
metal, and selects candidates to CORE
spond, yet will give my heartiest sup.
bort to the ticket and work with zeal
and ardor to secure victory"
In referring to the situation at Frank
l.fort, Governor Campbell said 81 do not
agree with Blackburn in his vinws on
france, but had / been democrat in
the Kentucky legislature would have
voted for him. And those democrats
who refused to vote for Black burn after
he was made the caucus, and therefore
44-party nominee, to put it mildly, did
wrong and mistook their mission
Lmightily. 1.-THE same tactics are to OBJ
tain at Chicago that we're fashionable
with certain so. called democrats al
Frankfort, if men are to bolt, if split IL
Ito follow because the candidate or the
I'platform does not meet the hopes oil
some hot minority, whether it be a
gold or silver minority, the destruc'
Eion of the party has come. was born
"a whig and raised a republican and be-
Ifcame democrat with my eyes open
j and with reasons for the hope within
me. became a democrat because be-
| lieved and still believe that it is the
party of the common people as against
a party of an aristocracy, and has with
in its keeping that ark of po-
litical covenant which guarantees to
| people of this country the rights and
liberties granted by the constitution,
1.-THE democratic party is the party Of
1.-The people, as against the republican,
the party of privileges, and the popu-
Fist, the party of anarchy. And it Is
this which has preserved the demo
cratic party. Its war record was and is
not to be defended. 1t would have
killed any other party. The wings died
for less. And now, thirty years after
the war, If the members of the demo-
cratic party will only be true to them
selves, whether we win next fall or no,
there is stm future of success and vic
tory 10 follow. But bolt or split now,
and We are undone for all time. The
democracy is destroyed forever, and its
l.site sown with salt. 1t will live only
as a memory like the wings, the fed
eralisS, and other combinations OF q
past that is far or near"