Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-29
THE PRESS on THE GOVERNOR.
Comments Of Virginia and Othcr
Papcr. on His Bortlng the Party.

Comments Of virginia and other
Papcrs ON His Boftlna the Party.
Charlottesville Progress)
THE SENATOR THAT SHALL NOT BE
Colonel OFerrall has been dreaming
dreams and seeing visions. and wren
man begins that sort OF thing &c is IN
n frame of mind and conscience TO make
any sort OF bunder. He has been dream
ing of Major Daniels senate i tosa'
and seeing visions OF Charles 4. oFe'-
rail- wrapped i'm it and astonishing 'he
nation with the extent OF his learning,
the wisdom OF his statesmanshlp' anu
! the power OF his leadership OF men
| The Governor has been hearing siShlh-
J cant sounds which tell OF the great up
| rising I'm Virginia for silver-the tramp
of a great multitude marshalled under
| leader whom no man can supplahI
| though heretofore ii had been his dream
that he could displace him, and that
! leader he knows is John Warwick Daniel
| The men behind Daniel cannot be cajolecs
! into becoming the men behind OFerrau'
| 1t is bootless TO measure strength with
! him. II he would be leader he must
| lead elsewhere. and 20 he turns with
/ unsatisfied ambition TO Joe Bryans guer-
| rillas. and is by item received with out
! stretched arms. because any accession 10
| their ranks is an event. In his cha
! racter as dreamer he hears the acciama-
! ton. Hail. Governor Of Virginia, ana
senator that shall be-
| O'Ferralrs dream is a vain one The
visions he has been seeing. like the
visions OF the night. which vanish with
day dawn will appear IN all their airy
unreaity In the bright day which shall
! follow the struggle of November Sd-a
/ struggle Of forces differed and led by
/ giants in whose presence leaders who
i have seemed larger than they are will
/ shrink TO their true mediocrity and
among those who will need small trou-
sers will be the disappointed Governor
| of Virginia who began his political career
as "A traitor to his party, and who will
/ end mis- political. masquerading in the
| habiliments of greatness with base in
gratitude to individual friends and
treachery to the great party which will
| give him its last commands in the sig
nitcant words: "Nevermore be officer
| of minel'
PLEADING THE BABY ACT"
Norfolk Ledger)
The Richmond Dispatch last Sunday, in
| commenting upon the recent utterances
| of Governor Ferrall on the financial
/ question, TO the effect that he had been
studying The subject during the past
| fifteen months with the result that he
was impressed with the fact that 1t was
/ his duty for him 10 take his stand with
! the gold standard Democrats and support
| the candidates nominated by the Indiana
polls convention. made good point when
it suggested that the proper time for the
| Governor TO study the question was when
! he was I'm Congress, when he was called
| upon, on several occasions, 10 cast his
vote for or against silver and voted I'm
! favor of the white metal. a man who
| occupies the position of congressman
should, in our opinion. study the questions
! upon which he is called to cast his vote,
I'm order that he may intelligently par
ticipate in the work Of making laws for
| the people
The position OF Governor O'Ferrall Al
the present time is somewhat similar. We
think. to that OF gentleman who took
a prominent part in the Readjuster cam
/ paign in this State fifteen or eighteen
| years ago. Prior to the Introduction OF
/ readjustment into the politics of the
| State he had, as an editor OF a paper,
demanded that the State assume the full
amount OF the State debt, which was
then I'm the neighborhood of fifty million
dollars. In going from one extreme tc
the other he virtually pleaded the baby
! act as to his former advocacy Of the pay
ment of the entire debt, and that is
! really what Governor OFerrall Is now
doing when he says that his present po-
siton is I'm consequence II his study OF
the financial question during the past
| fifteen months. The time for him TO have
made careful study OF that question
was when he was in Congress.
HAS COLLECTED HIS THOUGHTS"
Wythville Dispatch)
The Governor Of this State. Colonel
Charles T. O'Ferrall, has at last con-
cluded that he cannot vote for Bryan
and free silver.
Mr.. OFerrail reaches this conclusion
after studying, as he says. the silver
question for year from last spring.
He admits. then, that ne never studied
the question at all when in Congress for
term after term, and voting for free
silver-a representative in Congress, IN
deed Here ne places himself in the
light and position Of spending year after
year in Congress, I'm the capacity or a
representative of the peoples interests,
voting for legislation time and again,
which he knew nothing about did not
investigate or study at all until he had
left Congress. and ceased TO be repre-
sentative of the people in that body.
Eye gods ana little fishes"
While Mr. O'Ferrall was running fol
Governor the office TO which he was
elected by the party he now bolts, but
which ofic, he will never resign, II
every voter i'm the State who voted for
him would request II. he told IL all over
this section how many times he had
voted for free silver in Congress ian
ignorant vote, thought: he had voted for
the ratios of 10 to /. II TO /, Is TO |, lG
! TO l. and on up to % TO /. II we mistake
not.
But. then. "our'(y, Governor didn'
know what he was doing. and. from the
results. neither did the people of the
Seventh District. when they sent him ia
Congress to represent them, and the
people of the state, when they made
him Governor!
So the voters. as well as Mr.. O'Ferrall
were all Ignorant Governor O'Ferral
didn't know himself and neither did the
people.
But We expect Governor O'Ferral
would have been longer getting bis
peppers open or this money question
If Johnny Daniel hadn't knocked him out
OF water for the United States Senate
"INGRATITUDE is TREASON"
Fredericksburg Star,
Governor OFerrall has gone He Ia,
deliberately left the party which has fo
many years supported him. From tn
day Democrats elected him county cleri
10 the day they elected him Governor
there have been but few years that h.
has not been the incumbent OF som
Office, into which he was put by Demo
! cratic votes He has In Is said some