The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-05
DEFENSE.
Senator Daniel 10 The Rescue In a Reply to
GoYsrROF O'FerralI.
JusIIFIEs HIS POLITICAL RECORD
GOVERNORS AitncIs or iii, tn c,,-o
fia'iorin CnjusiiHnbie Rcpudi-
ated The Pintror,n on which re
"as Observation-Disclosures ana FREQ
silver.

Lvnchburgt, Va, September 4-IJnihe5
Stales enator John w. Daniel has adj
dressed to the editor Of the Lynchburr
NEWS a reply to the interview of Gov
ernor O'Ferrall published In the wash
lhston Post Of last Wednesday. Senator
Daniers letter is as follows:
L~ynchburg, Va, Sept. =, 1897.
carte: Glass. ESD, Editor OF The News:
My Dear Six: There would be no oc-
casloh Tor me to say a word respecting
7 Governor O'Ferralrs interview In The
Washlnston Post Of September LIST, but
Tor the fact that he makes an found
and u~nprovoked criticism upon me, and
III correcting that criticism / deem IT
proper to point out some other errors
INTO which he has fallen.
RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE,
OFFERED BY DANIEL, AND III
CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Amongst other reasons which he AS
sashs TOR opposing the Chicago plat
FORM ne includes its alleged ~'.condem-
nation OF President Cleveland fol-. pro-
tectliag the mails and property of the
united states when threatened by mob
violence" And he adds:
Nor could ] forget that it was Sen
ator Daniel, Of my own State, who Of
tered a resolution In the Senate OF the
United States commencing Mr.. Clevc-
rand fcr his course in connection with
the suppression Of the mob at Chicago.
ITis resolution was adopted without a
dissenting voice. Yet, If remember
Alright, Senator Daniel was a prominent
member of the committee on resolutions
at inc chicago convention, WHEN
THAT OMAllTTEE DENOUNCED
MIR. CLEVELAND FOR DOING THE
VERY THING FOR WHICH SEN
ATOR DANIEL HAD PRAISED HIM
III Senator Daniel raised his voice in the
committee or in the convention against
THIS plank, 1 have not heard of it,,
To this 1 reply: The Governor does
not remember Alright. First, ] was
not a member of the committee on resp
buttons at the Chicago convention. Sec
ond, There was no plank in the platform
"~denouncing MIR. Cleveland for the very
thing for which I had praised him.
nor any other plank which could be
fairly construed or which l construed
as of such import. The plank of the
Chicago platform to which l presume
the Governor refers Is rs follows:
we denounce arbitrary interference
as a violation of the Constitution or
the United States, and q crime against
free institutions: and We especially OBJ
1ect to government by injunction, as n
new and highly dangerous form of on
preston. by which Federal Judges, in
contempt OF the laws of the States and
rights OF citizens. become at oncc lcgis-
lators. judges. and eXecutioncrs, etc.
etc"
To his charge that it dcnounces Mr..
Cleveland flor the very same thing for
which 1 praised him." / have to say
further
l." nat by no fair grammatical con-
struction can 1t be 50 interpreted. It's
pronunciation Of ARBITRARY Federal
Interference In local affairs Is old time
Democratic doctrine. often repeated IN
platforms and speeches.
2. This arbitrary Interference" Ia
the main general proposition; "govcrn-
ment by injunction" is the specification.
The expression of the one thing Is the
exclusion OF aDbther thing.
I>have always defended MI. Cleveland
Tor protesting the post routes or the
United States and the mails from mob
violence, by United States troops. He
had, in my opinion, the same right TO
do 1t. and duty to do II, that President
Buchanan had TO send United States
marines under r. e. Lee and !. +. g..
Stuart to defend the United States ar
mory at Harper's Ferry against John
Browns insurrection. If at any time I
had believed or fancied that this clause
OF the platform would be ortured and
perverted into the meaning now attrib-
rted TO 1t by those who style lis anarch-
ists, ] would have made my Views known
II defended Cleveland az ! have al
ways done, from what Isdccmed unjust
assault
"a. The Governor has evidently
thought that it would be re~prehensible
In a Senator to endorse a Presidents
action and then become even his silcu:
assailant for what he had praised him.
So think ]. What does the Governor
think of n public officer who, during
many terms of service In Congress
votes every time for free inc unlimited
silver coinage at 16 to land becomes
Governor through a canvass in which
he boasts of his ardent devotion to the
principle, and OF having voted for II
many timcs in one day OF 16 TO 1. II to
1, Is to /, 10 to I, 20 to 1.-indeed, at all
the ratios proposed-and who after he
Is In office heaps denunciatlon and oD-
probium upon those who stand by the
doctrine which he 80 often upheld. and
declares that the idea with which he
was so long and notably identified as
not Democratic, but born In Populistic
councils?" May he not find a. subject
strained and %attenuated construction to
make me aDpea inconsistent in a mat
ter about which I have been constant
and in~variable?
THE FRED COINAGE OF SILVER.
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM OF 1892. AND THE
VIRGINIA PLATFORM OF
1898.
The Governor contends that "the
convention which nominated me (him)
in 1893 ~repudiated the doctrine Of free
unlimited and independent Coinage Of