The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-04
PURCELL is
OUT OF 1T.
Retires From the GuharnatoriaI
Contest in Virginia.
FORMALLY WITHDRAWS HIS
NAME-ONE ASPIRANT LESS FOR
THE NOMINATION AT THE CON-
VENTION-HE SCORES THE POL
ICY OF THE PARTY AND TALKS
PLAINLY ABOUT THE RICHMOND
COMMITrEE-PR PREDICTS DEFEAT
IN 1900.

Gainesville, Va, July 3.-Hon. J. r.
Purcell has formally withdrawn from the
race for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination. He will.under no circum-
stances allow the use of his name at the
Roanoke convention in August Mr..
Purcell. in an interview, said .to-night:
1.-The action Of the Richmond commit
tee, determining that dollars should con.
troll the primary instead OF sense, was
sufficient to insanity debar my candi-
dacy from the August convention, be it
Pop ocratic or Populisitic
'Thus the 800 candidates for COVER.
nor by political barter, may control thrice
their strength, thereby misrepresenting
the primary participants as to lieutenant
governor and attorney general. Mai.
Lee should be commended for proposing
sugar coating the 16 to l before admins
tering the pill TO the Democrats.
81 congratulate him upon his manly
stand rs to the $500 and the Richmond
primary. It is un-Demccratic to dis
franchise II voter simply because he is
poor. Is it not equally SO to debar one
from the support of his friends?
deeply grateful for the assurances of
sympathy and support in Richmond and
elsewhere l am impelled to say that. as
ever before, still stand for true blue
Democracy-a Democracy builded upon
the rock-for the right-the right of the
individual against the usurpation of
power from any quarter-for "a free vote
and II fair count. OF course no one with
these convictions could receive any nomi-
nation from the Roanoke convention A
gold dollar should of course have in it IL
dollars worth of gold, then why not a
dollars worth of metal in any other
metal dollar:
ic ,tt
money into the pockets of the few from
the labors of the rany. Should the 1G
to idea prevail nationally it would
work grfevous injury to all farmers
and all wage workers. The business of
law would have boom not absolutely
necessary to the general welfare. Hap
PLY the sound sense of majority of the
people of the United States stands be.
tween MS and such calamity, and will
so stand in the future,a as long as the sup.
ply of silver exceeds the demand as 1t
now does. as IL money metal of the wo1l Id.
las light came after darkness, so
spring and summer follow winter like
the eb5 and the flow, so will better and
brighter times naturally come, regard.
less of political parties.
"Having always been Democrat :.
ever voting the ticket feel at liberty To
express an opinin based on reason,
which is that the Presidential candidate
of any party chained to 1G TO 1 will he as
certains of defeat in 1900 rs things not
transpred ever get to be-as certain as
the Roanoke convention is to nominate
III to | ticket.
while l deplore tie coalition of the
Populistic uncompromisers and impracti-
cables, it is pleasure to relieve personal
friends, who believe that my candidacy
n iot 80, a..
ton. Ills sad TO see the innocents grow
lean and less as the woolly wolves grow
fat and fatter, but tbs true lambs can.
not be easily led or driven through gap
to rich pastures, tlio~eh they will follow
watchdog every time.n