The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26
THOSE SNARLING STATESMEN.
VIRGINIA's GOVERNOR REPLIES TO
SENATOR DANIEL.


versy of the Virginia Statesmen Is
Drawn out Into Another Chapter.
The Governor Grows Sarcastic.
Declares That Come what VIII, He
Is stilI a Democrat.
Richmond Va, Sept 25.-Gov. O'FerralI
will publish in the morning a six-column
reply to Senator Daniels last letter in
the correspondence proceeding between the
two gentlemen named. The governor says
in the outset:
THE senator says, referring to my let
ter of recent date, that (he) will not
answer in detail The game is not worth
the candle This shows how very tower
ing and transcendently mighty the sena-
tor stands IN his own estimation. The
game is not worth the candle
II suppose the senator, while descant-
ing learnedly upon the benefits he han
derived from his superior knowledge oe
grammatical construction leading him to
construe the Chicago platform differently
from 100000 of voters. throws himself
back and folding his cloak of senatorial
dignity about him, cries: Behold me In
my sacerdotal robes; think not, speak not
of me but in reverenual ave.. The game
is not worth the candle?
Really, the senator has a case of drop
sy, which he mistakes for substantial inn
mensity of stature; it is a pity he labors
under such a delusion."
The governor takes up seratim the
twenty-five charges that he made against
Maj. Daniel in his previous letter. to each
of which he adds, by his silence he adj
mits the charge" and he says: II find
am still unharmed and ready and willing
to continue the combat, should it be the
desire of this supposed mighty gladiator
so 1 say, lay on and defeated is he who
first cries hold; enough" The governor
challenges the senator to show wherein
he did not correctly quote every plank
from 1910 to 1892, In the matter OF the
tariff, and on the silver questions says;
"Still harping on my daughter" is the
senator He rolls as a sweet morsel under
his tongue what he terms my inconsisten-
cy on the silver question. oh, what
precious bit that Is to him. 1t is nectar to
his taste and an anodyne to his disturbed
| soul. He holds me up to scorn; he seeks
| to cruelty me, not upon a cross of gold
| but upon the gibbet of public opinion. Is
| there no escape for me? AS he hopes for
| cies and incongruties recorded on the
| scroll Of his life, may not his marble heart
| be moved TO pardon me for my vote in
congress for free silver when assured by
members of the committee on coinage.
weights and measures that the metals
could be preserved at a parity, and a sill
yer dollar be kept as good as a gold dol
lar2 viii he not condone my one error,
when his admitted errors and inconsisten-
cies on wings of wind come flying all
abroadg
The governor reiterates the charge that
in the Chicago platform there was couch
ed expression of a determination to so
organize the supreme court to secure
reversal of its decision upon the con-
stitutionality Of the income tax, and, in
concluding, says
1.-THE senator. in his letter, uses the
terms Courage and fidelity to friends
frequently in a kind of enigmatical ways
which do not comprehend. Courage i'm
Virginia is not at premium; 1t Is found
everywhere and in every garb. Fidelity
to friends Is a Virginia characteristic. If
the senator thinks l should have aban-
doned my principles last fall to save
friends in office, / will say that as much
as / love my friends, love my principles
more. / will sacrifice much for my
friends, but never my manhood. AS to
my own personal courage, l shall not
speak.
'1n referring to my expression of faith
In the people, the distinguished senator
asks, What people,? Then answering
himself, says: In the clan that spent $780,
eco 10 buy the state for Mckinley last
fall Here are two aspcrsions: First,
That am in sympathy with the republi-
can party. Second, that gold democrats
were purchased in the last campaign like
cattle In market overt. These reckless
aspersions indicate that the iron OF just
criticism had touched the quick, and
reached the marrow of the senator.
''The wish is father to the thought with
the senator. He would revel in delight if
1 would forsake my democracy and em-
brace republcanism, but his wish VIII
never be gratihed. When he stands en-
gulfed in Organism and poDulism and
every other ism that promises a dowry
of some votes; he win find me still dem-
ocrat.
There is no place in the gift of the re-
publican party of political nature
would accept. There is no republican tenet
that indorse, except that Of sound money
and that Is a democratic tenet, as well.
am a democrat simple and pure.
Now, as to the second aspersion. One
hundred and sixty thousand dollars, says
the senator, were spent to carry the state
for Mckinley. Who were bought? Not re-
publcans, of course; but democrats.
''Will he tell us how much was spent
in the purchase of the gold democrats in
Lynchburg, Richmond Petersburg, Nor
folk, Portsmouth, Manchester Staunton,
Roanoke and the valley counties, and the
other cities and sections Of the state?
'"The senator has impugned the integ-
rity of men who are his peers any, hour
Of the day in all the attributes of man.
hood, and he has made a charge that,
like Banquo's ghost, will not down."
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