Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-27
o,FERRAJ.L TO DANIEL.

between the TWO gcnLieman named.
The Governor says in the outset:
.sf1e oenator says, referring to my let
Ter of recent date, that (he) will not
answer in detail. The game is not
worth the candle. I suppose the Sen
ator, while descanting learnedly upon
the benefits he has derived from his gu
perior knowledge of grammatical con-
struction, leading him to construe the
Chicago platform differently from the
twelve millions of voters, throws him
self back and folding his cloak of sena.
torial dignity about him, cries, Behold
me in my sacerdotsl robes, think not,
speak not to me, but in reyerential
awe.
1.-The game is not worth the candle?
Really, the Senator has case OF
dropsy, which he mistakes for substan-
tial immensely of stature; it is pity he
labors under such a delusion."
The Governor takes up seriatim the
twenty-five charges that he made
against Major Daniel in his previous
letter, to each of which he adds, "by his
silence he admits the charges" and he
says:
II find I am still unframed and
ready and willing to continue the COM
bat. should it be the desire of this sup
posed mighty gladiator. Sc I sey 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 sil
YER question, says: Still harping on
my daughter, is the Senator. He rolls
as a sweet morsel under his tongue
what he terms Inconsistency on the
silver question. Oh, what a precious
bit that is to him. 1t is nectar to his
taste and an anodyne to his distur bed
soul. He holds me up to scorn be
seeks to cruelty me, not upon cross
of gold but upon the sibbet of public
opinion. Is there no escape for me?
I AS he hopes for forgiveness for the
long list of inconsistencies and incon'
gruities recorded on the scroll OF his
| life, may not his marble heart be NOV
ed to pardon me for my vote in Con-
| gress for free silver when assured by
members of the committee on coinage,
weights and measures that the metals
could be preserved as parity, and Q
silver dollar be kept as good as gold
dollar? Will he not condone my one
error, when his admitted errors and
Inconsistencies ION wings of wind come
| flying abroad p" II 4
The Governor reiterates the charge
that in the Chicago platform there wa
couched expression of a determination
! to so organize the supreme court as to
I secure reversal of its decision upon
the constitutionality of the income tax,
and in concluding says:
1.-THE Senator in his letter uses the
terms courage and fidelity to friends
frequently in kind of enigmatical way
which do not comprehend. Courage
in Virginia is not at premium. 1t is
found everywhere and in every garb
Fidelity to friends is Virginia charac-
teristic. If the Senator thinks l should
have abandoned my principles last fall
to save friends in Office, will say that
as much as l love my friends, I love my
principles more. 1 will sacrifice much
for my friends, but never my manhood.
AS to my own personal courage l shall
not speak.
SIN referring to my expression OF
faith in the people the distinguished
Senator asks what people?' Then an
swering himself says: In the clan that
spent 100000 to buy the State for Nc
Kinley last fall Hero are two asper
sions THAT am in sympathy with
the republican party. 2-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 touch
ed 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 democ
racy and embrace republioanism, but
his wish will never be gratifed. When
he stands engulfed in Organism and
populism and every other ism that
promises dowery of some votes, he
will find me still democrat.
"There is no place in the gift of the re.
publican party of political nature ]
would accept. There is no republican
tenet that I can endorse, except that of
sound money, and that is democratic
one as well. l am a democrat simple
and pure.
"Now, as to the second sspersion.
'One hundred and sixty thousand dol.
lars,' says the Senator, were spent to
carry the State for Mckinley Who
were bought? No republicans, OF
course, but democrats. \ "Will
be tell US how much was spent in the
purchase of the gold democrats in
Lynchburg, Richmond, Petersburg,
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Manchester,
Staunton, Roanoke and the valley
counties and the other cities and sec
tons of the State?" The Senator has
impugned the integrity of men who are
his peers any hour of the day in all |
the attributes of manhood, and he has |
made a charge that like Banquo's
ghost, will not down."
BAsEBALL.-The National League baseball |
games played yesterday resulted as fol. |
lows: Cincinnati TO- st. Louis 4 Cincinnati |
on;o C1ava1opd Iouiavilla |