The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-06
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GOVERNOR O'FERRALL.
The Reason Why Heidi Not Study the
Silver Question.

Silver Question.
To the Editor of The Times:-Charles
L. O'Ferrall is getting it Gin the neck''
all around. When he was candidate for
governor he ran up and down the State
boasting that he had voted eight times in
Congress for free silver coinage and con-
fidcntly claimed the support of the people
of Virginia to elevate him to the high
Office he now holds because he had always
stood by silver so faithfully. He now ad-
mits that he had never studied the ques-
tion when in Congress in the capacity of
representative of the peoples interests.
Did he not violate solemn obligation to
his constituents in voting time and again
and term after term for legislation which
he now confesses he knew nothing about
and did not investigate and study at all
until he had left Congress and ceased to
be representative of the peoples inter
ests in that body? That is to say, when
it was his business to maturely consider
the silver problem in order to vote intelli-
gently upon the question he did not do so.
Now when it is his business to be gov
ernor he gratuitously studies the question
in earnest and announces himself as OPP
posed to the very thing he so vehemently
advocated for years in Congress. The
fact is, O'Ferrall was SO busy studying
the question when in Congress of how to
be elected governor of Virginia and, since
governor, of how to get to the United
States Senate, that his mind has become
dreamy and visionary and he is likely to
make any sort of blunder. II he had
studied the silver question half as seri-
ously as his dream of getting to the SEN
ate and astonishing the nation with his
great learning and craftsmanship "a he
would now be a much better master of
the subject. He is a political quack and
juggler and one of the smallest fish that
has dubbed upon the surface of the polit-
lcal sea, and truly this campaign has I'M
earthed some very diminutive ones. 1.-THE
unkindeSt cut of alp is the treacherv TO
the great party he is trying to carry over
to the enemy by using the power and in
fiuence of the governors Office, to which
he was elected by this party, and elected
because he had voted eight times for sill
yer. Consistency, thou art n jewell"
but 'ingratitude is treason" There were
many people in Virginia who knew that
what Hon. VIM. r. Alexander, of Win
chester, said and wrote Of O'Ferrall, the
renegade, was true, and that was not the
worst that was said of him. I will give
him two years to land in the Republican
party, as he has already Joined the
Hanna Mckinley Aid Society. The Rich
mcnd Times has long since Joined the
same, and by the grace of Mark Hanua's
campaign Doodle EVERY pigeon hole lin
every cross roads postoffice in the State is
being flooded with that every short" and
lncoherent paper. A man who fails to
give his attention to n grave question
upon which he is called TO vote in order
that he may intelligently participate in
the work of making laws for the people,
and only starts to thinking after he is
made governor, when there is no such OBJ
llgation imposed upon him. should plead
the baby act and get off the track Z