The age-herald., 1897-09-19
NO CHANGE IN HIS VIEWS
As to Government by Injunction and an
 Attempt to ReVOlutiOnize Courts
HIS ATTITUDE REMAINS THE SAME
Scores the Governor Again For His lnconsst- ency in Voting For Silver, Then Bolting the Chicago Iicket-Criticism
 Free Mans Prerogatiye.

Lynchburg, Va, Sept. 1S.--A leidter from Senator John W. Daniel, iii answer to the recent letter of Gov O'Fenal, will be published in the Lynchburg Nows tomorrow. A considerable part of Senator Daniel's l6tIter is devoted to ql1dting newspaper comments on his speech last fall and an extract from a letter written by him in October, 1896, all showing that his construction Of the government by injuncldon' plank of fhe Chicago pfaftfrtm was the same then as it Is now. This is in refutaltion of the charge of the governor that Senator Daniel held his peaca on the subject during the last campaign. Senator Dan icl then deals W! h "a number of other political topics, incidentally making some keen thrusts at the Virginia exec 1iUive, his poll record and po.Jtacal position
 In dscussing Gov. O'Ferral's charge tfialt the last national democratic plat form proposed to revcautionize the su- prcme court in order to get from it de- clsion favorable to an income tax, Sem ator Daniel pungensly declares that "the democracy has never packed the su- preme court. It never will. To bmpute the suggestion is to islander as reputable men as til1e nation has in it.''
 Senate Daniel contends that the meaning of the national platform was that the court, in the natrual order of events, would be differently constituted and might be brought to reconsider its last decision as to an income tax, and ihus again reverse itself on this ques- tFon as it had previously done.
 q think" says the senator, "that Gov. O'Ferral oversteps the mark when he says commit more than an improprie- ty in holding that judgss are not beyond the pale of criticism. No good man desires to be beyond 1t. Criticism Is the weapon of truth and all public ser wants must be open to it whether they be judges or otherwise; and th=y always wish to be open to it, if they are honest and capable. The disposition to avoid fair criticism is the brand of suspicion. We are not to be taught obsequiousness under a pl5a of conservatism. As Q free man 1t is my right and as a sen ator it is my duty, to oriticise public off, cials and public measures. I shall en- deavor to observe that circumspection, decorum and moderation in doing so which good sense, public respect and g.nteel manners dictate; but do not think I shall be improved in these en- deavors by any example which may be found in the recent emanations from
 Gov. O'Ferral in his recent lettsr to the press undertook to excuse himself for voting in congress five times in one day for free silver and afterwards bolting the d:mocratic national ticket for declaring for this very doctrine, by saying that he had not studied the question while member of congress, but had accepted the assurance of ether congressman that free silver coinage was practicable.
 To this Senator Daniel responds that a man who so deserves the natural order of things that he does not study a ques- tion when it is his duty to do it, but hastens to study it when It is not his duty to do it, is in too indefensble a position to undertake to crticise these who have studied it and who have not changed their views upon the question.
 o1nar ai,, charge that Daniel had offered a resolu- tion in the senate commenting President Cleveland for sending troops to quel the Chicago riot and afterwards as a member of the committee on resolutions at the Chicago convention condemned the president for sending troops to Chi cago, Senator Daniel positively denies that he was ever member of the com- mittee on resolutions al Chicago. or that he ever attended a business mes ting of that committee or that he knew what was in the committees report until the platform was presented to the congen- tion for adoption. He denies also that he construed any plank of the platform anto eohueihHatiou VI SiS'-ianu ici sending troops to Chicago, and calls at- tention to the fact that the minority re- port on platform, drafted by sixteen of MT. Cleveland's political adherents, did not discover that Mir. Cleveland had been assailsd on this line.
 Senator Daniel calls attention to the fact that Governor Hill. Governor Rus sell and Senator Villas jointly assailed every plank of the platform that was