The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-01
DANIEL--o'FERRALL.
Two Distinguished Sons of
Virginia Differ.

letters from Senator Daniel
and Gov. O'Ferrall, of Vir-
ginia, criticising each other
for inconsistencies. Judging
from the letters, the Govern
or seems to have gotten the
best Of the Senator. The Sem
ator claims that the Govern
or, while a member of Con-
gress, voted for the ratios,
and now opposes the free
coinage of silver. The Gov
ernor gives his reasons for
his action in the following
worGs
''The State platform of 1898, and
upon which l made my Guberna-
torial "a .paign, reaffirned the ma
tional plank of 1892. Soon after /
wa r7i-i"atcd the vote 4 Congress
on the .D~ge OF silver 1T different
ratio e4 taken. / was assured by
the chairmaL and other me bers
of the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures that the sill
yer dollar could be maintained at a
parity with the gold dollar at any
ratio as low as l6 to /. My special
duties as chairman of the Commit
tee on Elections and otherwise, had
so absorbed my time as to prevent
me from giving the subject the at
tention it deserved. With the as
surance referred to, given by those
who had the matter directly in hand,
/ voted for all the ratios.
81 was misled like many better
men have been, and embraced the
fallacy upon the opinion of others.
But l did not remain in error long;
study cleared my vision and enlight-
ened my judgment, while the Sena-
tor has allowed the disease to secure
a faster hold on him with each
fieeting hour until his fever is high
er than when he was ''sick abed"
with greenbackism some years ago.
His dearest friends sat up with him
in his first attack of financial delu-
sion and he finally recovered, and
the hope is INDUCED now that his
present attack will yield to proper
nursing and skillful treatment. In
fact, those who know him best are
confident of his restoration to a
healthy financial condition of mind
by the time the next Democratic
National Convention meets, yet
they will always be solicitous lest
the trouble returns in some form.
''In August, 1895, ! wrote let
ter to the Richmond Dispatch on
the money issue, opposing free coin
age, in which / stated frankly that
l Lad voted for the free coinage of
silver in Congress. In my canvass
in 1898, / made the announcement,
but at the same time everywhere
declared that l was for a sound dol
lar, IeO-cent dollar, whether gold,
silver or paper, and that l would
never consent to have a deprecated
dollar palmed off on the country,
robbing the laborer and fleeing the
farmer"
After explaining his Gin
cons:o,encies'' the Governor
brings heavy artillery to bear
upon t. q Senator. He wants
to know:
"I"ny I'd Senator Daniel vote
in the Senate to praise Mr.. Cleve-
land for suppressing the Chicago
riots and vote in the Chicago con-
vention to condemn him for the
same action?
"Why did he abandon his tlast
dollar position to the State debt
and adopt the State debt PROPOSE
ton of the Readjusters?
"Why did he discard his green
back and fat money theory, which |
be insisted was the only salvation
Of the country, and adopt the silver
miners 40 or 5O-cent dollar as the
Danacea for all the ills of labor and
agriculture?
"Why did he cast aside the idea
Of repeating the internal revenue
lct, and allowing the protective
.ariff to stand, in behalf of which
ne made numerous speeches and &C
,epted the true Democratic doc.
,rine?
"Why did he forsake the tariff
blank of 1892 and cling to the tariff
flank of the Chicago convention
as unsound by such emf
tent tariff reformers as Senators
Vest and Mills?
"Why did he endorse the State
'latform of 1898 for a good silver
Iollar by and through international
greement or legislative safeguards, {
nd instantly take the stump in ia {
or of throwing open our minis to {
IL the silver of the globe at 10 to /,
Without agreement or safeguard? K
"Why did he take the position t
4 Readjuster times for the payment '
f every State bond in full if the '
DOR children in the State had there S
y to grow up in ignorance, and /
ow insists in paying the national i
onds in deprecated currency? il
"Why did The denounce the unit b
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