The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
GOV. O'FERRALL'S REPLY,
He Brings Heavy Artillery to Bear
Upon Senator Daniel.

UpUU SttldiUI UdllI6ls
Washington Sept. ia special to the
Post from Richmond says:
Governor O'Ferrall has replied to Sen
Rtor Daniel in Il lengthy letter. In this
letter the governor addresses himself es-
peciaily to Senator Daniels record, charp.
ing him with inconsistency in numerous
directions, and also comments with en-
phatic utterance on the statements made
in the Senator's communication.
Governor O'Ferrall begins his letter by
saying that he little imagined his inter
view in the Washington Post would elicit
such reply as that which appeared nm
der Senator Daniels name. He then rid
icules the Senator fo- having just discov-
cred that he was criticised from july 70
Novem Der last Year for voting in the SEN
ate to praise Mr.. Cleveland and then yot-
ing in the Chicago convention to condemn
him. "Was he asleep all last campaign?,
asks the governor. "Why did he bear
the criticism with such serenity then and
allow it to arouse his temper to so high
pitch now?''
But the governor goes further than
this. He charges Senator Daniel with
juggling with words il DENYING his mem
bership of the resolutions committee at
Chicago, and shows by the dispatches
sent to the Richmond Times by it's &C IRE
spondent at the Chicago convention that
Mr.. Carter Glass, who took Mr. Daniels
place on the committee, after protesting
against the Endorsement of further issues
of greenbacks, declined to vote for the
censure Of the President, and, retiring
from the committee, requested Senator
Daniel to act in his stead, which was
cone. Governor O'Farrall calls upon
Senator Daniel to say whether this state
ment is correct
Governor O'Ferrall also devotes some
space to Senator Daniels remarkable
statement that the plank referring to
Federal interference in local affairs,
meaning the Chicago riots, was not aimed
Mt Mr.. Cleveland. The governor says that
it was universally construed as con-
demnation of Cleveland Everybody so
understood it," he remarks, and he
quotes in parallel columns the Federal
interference and government by injunc-
ton plank of the platforms of the Ma.
tional conventions to show the hand of
Altgeld in both. In the face of this, he
asks, will Senator Daniel still adhere to
this assertion that the Chicago plank
was not intended as Il condemnation Of
Cleveland? He also quotes Senator Daniel
as saying at the Roanoke convention that
there were too many plankseaiu the Chi
cago platform. What planks," asks
the governor, "did he think ought to have
been eSpunged? We are curious to know
to what planks he referred"
The governor also takes issue with Sem
ator Daniel on the question of the SUI
preme court, asserting that the Chicago
platform was an attack upon that insti-
tuition. He says that Senator Daniel'a
supported this attack, and say that there
cannot be two opinions among conserva-
tive men as to the improperly of a Uni
ted States Senator using language tend
ing, at least, ITO lessen the respect of
American citizens for the supreme court
of their land.
Governor O'Ferrall twits the Senator
with gliding softly over the tariff
plank" He says that Daniel has never
been an ardent tariff reformer. and in
the early eighties maie speeches to prove
that the internal revenue tax ought to be
abolished and the tariff let alone. The
governor also quotes the text of every
tariff plank from 1910 to 1892 to prove
his assertion in the Post interview that
all of these planks either expressly or in
directly declared in favor of 'tariff- for
revenue only" Senator Daniel had as
serted that this statement WAS an error.
In reasserting that no national ccnveE-
ton, calling itself Democratic, has ever,
prior to 1896, declared for the free coin
age OF silver at any ratio, nor for unlim-
TIED and indepe ndent coinage, Governor
O'Ferrall pr owes his case by quoting the
financial planks, and gives his own eXpe-
rience with the silver question in the fol-
lowing words:
Our State platform of 1893, and upon
which | made my guternatorial cam
paign, reaffirmed the national plank of
lS92. Soon after L was nominated the
vote In Congress on the coinage of silver
ut different ratios was taken. I was as
sured by the chairman AMI other mem
bers of the committee on coinage, weights
and measures that the silver dollar could
he maintained at a parity with the gold
dollar at any ratio as low rs 16 tc |. My
special duties as chairman of the commit
tee on elections and other wise had so alb
sorbed my time as to prevent me from
giving the subject the attention it de.
served. With the assurance referred to
given by those who had the matter di
rectly in hand, voted for all the ratios.n
Governor O'Ferrall then sarcastically
comments on Senator Daniel ms follows:
Senator Daniel arraigns me for incon-
sistency in voting for the ratios and now
opposing the free coinage of silver. He
seems to think this will he n STARTLING
revelation. Why, if he was not mapping. !
he surely read in August, 1895, letter
to the Richmond Dispatch on the money
issue, opposing free coinage, in which I |
stated frankly that had voted for the
coinage of silver in Congress. | have
never concealed the fact, and In my can
vass III 1893 made the announcement.
but Mt the same time. everywhere declar-
ing that was for IL sound dollar, a 100 |
cent dollar, whether gold. Silver, or pa-
per. and that would never consent 70 |
have deprecated dollar spalr1ed off On |
the country. rcbbiag the laborer and |
fleeing the farmer
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