Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-10-23
Tle Governors Position.
ADDRESS TO VIRGINIA DEMO
CRATS.

CRATS.
UFerrall's Record OF Public Ser
vlce-Obje to the Chicago
Platform-His Views on the
Silver Questlon-Wil support
Palmer.
/ To the Democrats Of Virginia:
My Fellow DemOcrats:-fOr
twent, five years have had your
confidence and esteem. In every
campaign you have hOnOred me
with invi' atiOrs to address you.
YOu have always received ne warm
ly. given ne large audiences an"
applauded my uttertnces To
wherever the battle waged the hot
test YOU have called me. ana ! have
never failed to respond. L have
canvasStd hInelyihTeP at the one
hundred couutlrS of ViTginla,ne"r
" all Of them repeatedly, aud have
raised my voice time AMI again Il"
every city and almost every I WI
and hamlet fro u lidrW atrr 10 III
muuntains hava been rltc el Il
~, H. Ter OF b. z neral a>SrmbA
i,dge I Tie c"unN COAT Of III
county. Il representative III e u
gIps> tcr six Consecutive 'InS and
( nnally gON ernur .' he rrn urUu
veal ,h.
Thus have stTved ~, party aud
thus have been endorsed nt
hOnuitd h, il.
With pride recall the app''N
ing lttteIs | nave received H. H.
nv fellow drmOcId SOt al 81 >s' >
and sections, aud the ~ 'mer 'ul
mmtudatuIN notices winch naV,
appeared from leaI {" ear IL Tie
democratic press of tie state.
But within the last month d
change has come III tn tone Of
SOME of the Journals 10 which ]
have referred aud in the temper of
some of the gentlemen To wnOm |
have alluded, and instead OF lIlend
y words. vials OF wrath are being
opened upon my head.
Now what naS caused this sud
den transformation. WHY are
anathemas being hurled at me aud
he vocabulary exhanste in the
draft upon it for eplthetS
1t Is because, true TO my teach
lngs and devoted 10 my pIi ci pies,
honest in my convictions and firm
in my democratic faith. | have DE
clined TO endorse the platform, and
support the nominees of the lat'
Chicago convention. This determl
nation was reached not willingly
hut reluctantly, not hastily, but
matureIy, and | propose to give my
reasons and ask you TO calmly y aud
SOberly consider them and then
pass judgment between me and my
ceusOrs. | shall address you IN
plain language aud direct words,
but ID temperate language.
AS the governor of bis common
wealth il would be un5ecOmiug In
me indeed, and as a gentleman /
would not desire to descend TO tue
level of some Of NY cridcs. "Ihey
can bear i'll language with ease and
return it with pleasure, bur to M
1t is unnsual 10 hear 1t and dis
agre, able to speak it,"
have never cast my ballot fOl
any man who was not democrat
for any Office, from the highest Ia
he humblest. l cOud not be IA re
publican, because regard The
principles of The republican pat
,s lninical to the Interests Ot I L.
country, and beSli,s the record "l
southern wrongs Inflicted by lhl-
party Is to derpy written ia ~
memory To be erased. | cOu d no
be pOpullst, because l beileyt
pOpnlislic doctrines are The m :
dangerous heres IS thai have e\rl
been advAuc. Il H. his l,nd.
LII 1892. 1898 MI 1894 d. nou"
c~d the D ala aud On INA pia
'orn S of lhe p pulS pH1y aud
did evtrA other dtmO' RAJ who VA
ga The hastings, and Oh, my lei
10 democrats, 10y SOuT Voices a
the time aud Aour votes at Ih'
polls, endorsed every uieranct an'
coudemtd every populislc do
trlne. IL 1893 ,Ou Supp'rU Il o.
ln my terre struggle wlIh Ih'
; pOpullst republican cUnblnd | 4
r aud elected ne 10 my present hlgl
position. No language WAS IO'
= severe, no A0rds weIe too nltte
for you in Your denuncIaiiOn q
pOpnlism. AN the sane deno
crat now | was then. l AN stand
Ing where j STOOD then. have no
, budged an inch. WIat / condemn
ed then | condemn now. POpnlisu
= is no more acceptable to ME nov
Than it was then. But my critic
have changed front aud are hna
ging to their bOsoms that whic
they then shrank from as the
> would from the most noxlOu
4 thing. Recall the discussions {
which you listened four, three, an
d even one year ago between demo
= cratic and populist speakers, an
d tell me if you could have imagine
' for moment that some Of thes
a democratic speakers won d IN fe
;. months be III pOpulist trucklt
y bed. Recall the scatDiug editoria
= of democratic newspapers and te
. NE ii it ever entered your min
' that possibly before the summer (
!. 1885 had passed some of the
Is would be commencing pOpulist
y principles.
ie But, as impossible as you bad |
rs doubt supposed these things to !
&c they haye come to pass, aud sOu
u of these same gentlemen and JOu