The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
GOV. O'FERRALL'S REPLY.
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proclaimed that he would rather see every
public school house in the State burned
to the ground than have single dollar
OF the bondholders' debt 20 unpaid, and
those of us who were in tie fight for him
in that memorable campaign remember
we'll how he was caricatuled by the Re.
adjusters with flaming brand in hand
kindling fire under the humble noun
tain school house We remember well
how his extreme expression embarrassed
us and how far it contributed to his de-
feat for governor. To reconcile the Sen
ator's position now favoring the payment
of the national bondholders in deprecated
silver dollars, With his last dollar pc.
sition in 1881 may be as hard as Euclid
problem, so l will not undertake the
task, but leave it to him..
Governor O'Ferrall denies that he has
heaped opprobrium and denunciation
upon those who favor the free coinage of
silver. "There is not Il line or wo: d in
my interview he says, "reflecting upon
the masses who support silver" but he
adds that he is not of such meek and
lowly nature as to refrain from express
irG a. opinion counter TO Organism and
free sllverism in Virginia, especially
when the harshest epithets have been
hurled OF gold Democrats AS to the
says that the Senator neeu not look be-
yong his own door-sill. "W;th his pride
aroused" says the governor, CHS politi
cal fortune mt stake, and eXerting all his
in luence, nearly 1000 Democrats in his
own city of Lynchburg refused to follow
him 10 the support of Bryan And the
falling of of the Democratic vote in cities
and in the valley, Piedmont and South
west sections, the governor adds, shows
hot t1,o,t Il Of l,.,f Il
vote.
Governor O'Ferrall also tells how the
gold Democrats appealed earnestly for
harmony before the Roanoke convention
assembled, but Senator Daniels will was
omnipotent and all the Objectionable fea
lures of the Chicago platform were in
dorse perhaps, Governor o Ferrall says,
because he was resolved to carry out Mr..
Bryan's threat in his jefferson, Hotel
speech, that no gold Democrat should re-
turn to the organization except upon
bended knee
1t is pointed out that in 1878, after
Grant had carried Virginia over Greeley,
the State convention ignored national is
sues, and on n State platform the party
was reunited and solidified. Governor
O'Ferrall think that this precedent ought
to have been followed in 1897.
Governor O'Ferrall mentions II number
Of Senator Daniels Inconsistencies, rs
follows:
81 He abandoned his last dollar posi-
tion to the State debt and adopted the
State debt proposition of the Readiust-
erS.
go. He discarded his greenback ard fiat
money theory which he insisted was the
only salvation of the country and
adopted the silver miners 40 or 80 cent
dollar as the panacea for all the ills of
labor and agriculture.
'':. He cast aside the idea of repeating
the internal revenue act, and allowing
the protective tariff to stand, in behalf of
which he made numerous speeches and
accented the true Democratic doctrine.
81. He now forsGkes the tariff plank of
1892 aud clings to the tariff plank of the
Chicago convention, denounced as up-
sound by such eminent tariff reformers
as Senators Vest and Mills.
"5. He Endorsed the State platform of
1893 for a good silver dollar by and
through international agreement or icgis.
lative safeguards, and instantly took the
stump in favor of throwing open our
minis to all the silver of the globe at &c
to |. without agreement or safeguards.
''6. He took the position in Readjuster
times for the payment Of every State bon
in full if tie poor children of the State
had thereby to grow up in ignorance,
and now insists in paying the national
bonds in deprecated currency.
81. He denounced the unit rule in the
State convention of 1892, when leading
Hill's minority, and demanded it in the