Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-06
SENATOR DANIELS REPLY.

SENATUR DANIELS kEPL1.
United States Senator John W. Dan.
iel has addressed to the editor of the
Lynchburg News reply to the in:er-
view of Gov. O'Ferrall recently pub
lished ia which it was stated that Sem
ator Daniel was a member of the COM
mittee on resolutions which denounced
Mr.. Cleveland. Senator Daniel says that
he was not member of the committee,
and that the committee did not de.
nounce Cleveland. Senator Daniel
then continues:
1.-THE Governor has evidently thought
that 1t would be reprehensible in Sen.
ator to endorse Presidents action, and
then become even his silent assailant for
what he had praised him. So think I.
What does the Governor think OF q
public officer who, during many terms
of service in Congress, votes every time
for free and unlimited silver coinage at
Is to land becomes Governor through
q canvass in which he boasts of his ar
dent devotion to the principle, and of
having voted for it many times Ia one
day at 16 to /, II to 1, Is to l, ~ to l, %
to Indeed, at al. the ratios proposed
and who, after he is in Office, heaps
denunciation and opprobium on those
who stand by the doctrine which he 80
often upheld and declares that the idea
with which he was 30 long and notably
identified is not democratic, but born
in populistic oouncils9' May he not
find subject for reflection without ct.
tempting by strained and attenusted
construction to make me appear inoon.
sistent in matter about which I have
been constant and invariable?
1.-THE Governor contends that the
convention which nominated me (him)
in 1898 repudiated the doctrine Of free.
unlimited and independent coinage of
silver, and declared for bimetallism by
and through international agreement
eff so, the Governor himself speedily
repudiated the platform on which he
was nominated. The. convention was
held in Richmond on August II. 1898.
The candidate nominated for gov
ernor went from the convention
back to his seat in the House of
Representatives, Of which he was
then member, and on August
28th voted in that body for the free,
unlimited and independent coinage of
silver-without trace of international
agreement in the proposition-yea,
voted for it at all the proposed ratios.
~ appeal from the reminiscent after
thought of Gov. O'Ferrall to the action
OF Candidate and Congressman OFFER
rail-, with his platform fresh in hand
and without the aid of his long.range
telescope in OK post facto contempla.
tons.
sThe Governor, after getting the
Office for which he was a candidate,
abandoned his party associates who
elected him, and who construed the
platform according to his vote, and
adopted Palmer and Buckner and their
single gold standard platform-aband-
oned even the international agreement
free.c coinage theory to which he now
enormously limits the meaning OF the
national platform of 1892.
"Again, the Governor does not re-
member Alright respecting the Chicago
platform and the tariff. He says:
"'It abandoned the time-honored
principle of tariff for revenue only
enunciated by every democratic con.
vention which mentioned the tariff
from 1910 to 1892
"Not 30. The fact is that the demo-
cratic platforms of 1884 and 1888, upon
which Mr.. Cleveland was twice nomi-
mated, and which were framed by his
friends, did not declare for tariff for
revenue only The fact is, also, that
the Cleveland leaders in the convention
of 1892, led by his e1-Cabinet officers,
Villas, Whitney and others, stoutly re-
sisted the for revenue only expires.
sion, aud that every one of tho Cleve-
land delegates from Virginia voted with
them against 1t. So it would seem that
if the tariff is the matter that is ve1ing
the Governors spirit, he supported
Cleveland twice because the for reve.
nue. only clause was left out, and after.
wards opposed Bryan for the same
reason. Surely, this cannot be the
Governors trouble. The fact is that
the Chicago tariff plank ia less protec.
tive than the platforms of 1884 and
1885,"
Senator Daniel also denies Governor
O'Ferrall's charge that the platform at
tacks the Supreme Court.
"The Virginia democratic platform OF
1898, upon which Governor O'Ferrall
was nominated, ratified and endorsed
the last national democratic platform.
which was that on which MIR. Cleveland
was nominated at Chicago in 1892.
"This was urged by the Governors
supporters, and I earnestly joined them
in their contention. 1t is the customary
action of State conventions, followed in
that case, and followed, also, by the re-
cent democratic convention at Roanoke.
The Governor now upbraids the Roa.
noke convention for following this cus.
tomary precedent. which was observed
when he was nominated. His sup.
porters, and he, too. (for talked with
him at the convention in 1898, and con-
Cured in his view thought that his
own canvass should be made not
only upon State issues, but also upon
the reaflrmation of the last national
democratic platform utterance. Yet,
he now insists in his interview that the