The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-25
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST. Is 1897.
srSAToR MARTIN WILL TAKE THE
SIITMP

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ing ton POST. IL. L. w, writes that paper
from Scottsville. the home OF senator
Thomas S. Martin, that the Senator mas
deanitely determined TO take the stump
in Virginia this fall and TO speak IN
every quarter of the State. TO say no.
thing Of what the Senator intends say
ing I'm his speeches. If we were his advis-
or we should counsel him Don't
The Senator is not very popular with
some people of Virginia and 1t is likely
he will only add TO this unpopuarity by
advising them now about their course
upon public questions.
But II. l.. w. evidently prlmed for the
purpose, gives us a hint of what the
Senator is going to say to the people OF
Virginia and forowarned Of that, we
should II we were permitted TO DO so
dS1bly advise him TO Don't" The cor
respondent tells us the Senator Will again
declare to the people that 1t Is his une-
ouivocal opinion that this country should
omen its minis 10 the free coinage OF sill
yer AT the ratio of &c 10 l without walt
at the same time, that he will also tell
them tnat he Is heartily in favor of sew
eral other new light measures thought
TO be quite in vogue in Virginia at this
time. In the matter Of the 16 TO / delu-
sion H. L. w. tells us that the Senator
.has already fortified himself with a
large mass of information upon the sub
tect. although the exact text Of his open
ing speech has not yet been prepared
Now when the Senator is declaring him
self from his fortihcations what we
wonder, will ne say II some plain spoken
old Virginia farmer asks him If he did
not counsel, here, in the summer OF 1888
with "a number of leading gold bugs as
10 the best way to get Senator Daniel to
vote for the repeal OF the Sherman sill
yer purchase law. The Senator will not,
OF course deny that he did so counsel,
and that the goldbugs with whom he
was then counselling thought he was as
strongly opposed to the further coinage OF
silver as they were. and, that being so,
we wonder what the Senator will tell
this plain spoken old Virginia farmer
was the cause of his change OF opinion?
Far be it from The Times 10 deny TO
any one the right to change his opinion
upon any question whatever. and, If
Senator Martin received new lights az
ter 1895 and came to understand that IT is
sound finance for the government to
stamp forty cents worth OF silver as a
dollar and 20 force all persons 10 whom
a dollar Is due to receive it as a dollar.
The Times will be the last party in the
world 10 deny him the right to adopt the
new opinion. All The Times would do
would be TO point out 10 him that the
new light had dawnod upon him at a
most inauspicious time. The Times would
way to him the people would not have
elected you for their Senator when YOU
their hearts set upon having General
FItz Lee as their Senator and they have
never understood how he came TO be left.
II seems to The Times that II you pur-
sue the course you are said TO propose
that you will ALLEVIATE so many OF those
VINO are sun your lflehuS tndt you VIII
have hardly any more friends in Vir-
ginia than Lord Castlereagh had in Ire
land when the beggar asked him for
penny with which he might treat ALL
Of his Lordship's friends in Ireland.
Nevertheless you did have some impor-
tant and conservative friends at the
time OF your election and while they
were little tender-footed when they
came 10 discuss the way you got TO the
Senate they told us all that you were a
conservative man in your views sound
upon finance, sound Democrat on the
tariff, and that YOU would make most
creditable record In the Senate upon all
the great questions OF public interest
that were to- come before that body.
Much as those who opposed you dotested
the politics that put you in the Senate.
they were prepared 10 accord 10 you fun
credit for the conservatism that your
friends predicted for you when you got
there. Your course has already disap-
pointed many OF these expectations. al
though Il is conceded that you have been
diiigent In attending to the special inter-
este Of your Constituents. but II you take