The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-26
HOT AT SENATOR DANIEL
AN ACADEMIC, AID CAPTANDUM
SHOT IN THE AIR.
SQUIRMS UNDER HIS SILVER RECORD
Voted for Free Silver Because Committee Told
Him it Would be Kept at Parity
and After Many Years He
Was MisIed.

u ferrall VIII publish in the morning n
ax column reply to Senator Daniels last
ftter in the correspondence between the
To gentlemen named. The Governor
Rys in the outset
s'The Senator says, referring to my let
Pr of recent date that / (hel viii not
lnswer in detail. The game is not worth
he candle
4 This shows how very towering and
lanscendently mighty the Senator
ands in his own estimation. The .pa.,Aloe
S not worth the CANDLE
i suppose the Senator while1 descant-
ng learnedly uDon the benefsAts ne has
1eser1 ed from his superior knowledge OF
grammatical construction leading him
to construe the Chicago platform diff.
ferently from twelve million voters,
throws himself back, and folding his
cloak OF SENATORIAL DIGNITY
about him, cries: Behold me in my
Senatorial robes; speak not of me, but
in reverential awe
1.-The game is not worth the candlep
Really, the Senator has case of dropsy,
which he mistakes for substantial inn
mensity of stature; it is a pity he labors
under such q delusion."
The Governor takes up seriatim the
twenty-five charges that he made against
Senator Daniel in his previous letter, to
| zach of which he adds, by his silence
he admits the charge" and he says: 81
find | am still unharmed and ready and
willing to continue the combat, should it
be the desire Of this supposed mighty
gladiator so / say lay on and defeated
is lie who first cries hold, enough
/ The Governor challenges the Senator
to show wherein he did not correctly
quote every plank from 1910 to 1892,
in the matter of the tariff, and on the
silver question says:
''Still harping on my daughter, is the
1 Senator. He rolls as n sweet morsel
\ under his tongue what he terms my in
| consistency on the silver question. Oh,
/ what precious bit that is to him. 1t
1 is nectar to his taste and an anodyne to
4 his disturbed soul.
4 'Ee holds me up to scorn, ne seeks
4 to cruelty me, not upon cross Of gold,'
/ but upon the gihbet of public opinion.
/ Is there no escape for me? AS he hopes
for forgiveness for the long list of in
| consistencies and incongruities recorded
/ on the scroll of his life, may not his
marble heart be moved to pardon ME for
! my vote in Congress for free silver when
| assured by members of the committee
on Coinage Weights and Measures that
| the metals could be preserved at a pari-
| ty and a silver dollar be kept as good
as a gold dollar? Will he not condone
my one error, when his admitted errors
| and inconsistencies 'on wings of wind
1 come flying all abroadY
/ The Governor reiterates the charsu
| that in the Chicago platform there was
/ couched expression of a determination
| to so recognize the Supreme Court as
to secure a reversal of its decision upon
the constitutionality OF the income tax
and in concluding says:
''Ine Senator in his letter uses the
! terms courage and fidelity to friends
| frequently in kind of enigmatical way.
| which l do not comprehend. Courage
! in Virginia is not at O premium; it is
found everywhere and in every garb,
Fidelity to friends is a Virginia charac-
| teristic. If the Senator thinks | should
have abandoned my principles last fall
to save friends in office, | viii say that
as much as | love my friends, love my
principles more. l will sacrifice much
for my friends, but never my manhood.
!, As to my own personal courage, I
shall not speak. . I"
In referring to my faith ii the peop
/ the distinguished Senator asks 'wI
! peopleF Then answering himself, say
/ In the clan that spent 100000 to buyV
the State for Mckinley last fall Here
are two aspersions: ~ That / am In
sympathy with the Republican party. (2)
| That gold Democrats were purchased in
the last campaign like cattle in market
overt.
These reckless aspersions Indicate
that the iron Of just criticism had touch
ed the quick, and reached the marrow
of the Senator
"The wish is father to the thought
with the Senator. He would revel in
delight if l would forsake my Democra-
cy and embrace Republicanism, but his
wish will never be gratifed. When he
stands engulfed in Organism and Popul-
ism and other isms that promises a
dowery of some votes, he will find me
still Democrat.
There is no place in the gift Of the
Republican party of political nature /
would accept. There is no Republican
tenet that endorse, except that of
sound money, and that is a Democratic
tenet as well. | an Democrat simple
and pure
~" "S ~ tAAe scCohu dispersion: 'One
hundred and sixty thouA4.+saa-assoGIars,
says the Senator, were spent TO carry
the State for Mckinley Who were
bought? Not Republicans, OF course,
but Democrats
'Will he tell us how much money was
spent in the purchase of the gold Demo-
Gratis in Lynchburg, Richmond, Peters
burg, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Manchester,
Staunton, Roanoke, and the valley coun-
ties, and other cities and sections of the
State?
"The Senator has impunged the integ-
rity of men who are his peers any hour
of the day in all the attributes of man
hood, and he has made a charge that
like, Banquo's Ghost, win not down."