Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-13
DANIEL IN OPPOSITION.
He Gives His Objections to the
Plan.

followed Mr.. Jones. Ths senior Senator.
as told in to-day's Dispatch, made an
eloquent argument before the commit
tee. in opposition to this proposition. IN
reply 10 Mr.. Jones tonight, he said:
I had hoped in this great convention
Of fellow Democrats TO have had no
encounter No man was ever honored
by a convention as / have been to-day,
but the responsibility OF being one 10
advise YOU upon this subject came upon
me unsought. and 1 have made 1t inc
rule Of my life 90 avoid no Responsible
lity, and 10 declare myself, whether II
be popular or not. II there Is any one
who has any abuse 10 speak OF any
senator, cut with it like a man. | re-
member at one time. when my colleague
was the subject Of public report, he
threw down tho gauntlet to those who
charged him, and the General Assembly
OF Virginia declared that his raiment
was untainted II there is a man who
wishes to besmirch 1t, stand Up and let
the world know upon where the allega-
ton rests. Now, gentlemen, / want 70
Law a proposition before you, and IL Is
this: Every Democratic voter in VIZ
glnia now should have. and has had
since Virginia was a sovereign State In
the Union, an opportunity, and now mas
an opportunity, TO have himself heard
as 70 who shall be his Senator. Is there
any county in the Commonwealth TO
which the privilege Is to-day denied, or
in which easy opportunity Is not ahoru-
ed to attend his county convention
or his county primary? Let him in
struct his member or the Legislature who
10 vote for Has ever a member OF the
LEGISLATURE Of this state been instructed
TO vote for some one man and voted for
another? Who, and where, and when?
In this very election, some OF your con-
stituents have been pleased to give 10
their representatives, an expression or
their choice, and I need only TO look
into the faces Of this audience TO know
that no man here has the countenance
of guilt. or would betray public trust.
NOT INFALLIBLE.
Now, as 70 this primary system: 1t
might be that primary system might
bo laid before mo which would commend
my earnest sympathy and support, but l
do not believe that Thomas Jefferson,
great as no was, exhausted all the foun-
tains OF human wisdom, and as much
as 1 love and revere and respect the
great and noblo leader of my party-Wtl-
liam JENNINGS Bryant would take issue
with him as quick as ! would with you
II | saw the truth as I conceive IT, for
IL he Is a wise man he IS not above IN
structlon from even the humbest or his
followers. The gentleman who has just
spoken OR jones' assumes that we haVo
a perfect primary system before us.
Now. was it from Georgia? Zones: MOI
He saws no. Perhaps he got 1t
from Nebraska. / would ask for infor-
nation. was It the same perfect prl-
mary system that nominated william
Jennings Bryan?
Mr. Jones: Bryan was nominated Tor
Senator in convention.
Senator Daniel: | understood my friend
|. 10 say differently l may be In error
hut | understood my friend Mr.. Jones,
10 say that ne was nominated by prl-
mary In Nebraska, and then defeated by
corporations at the polls. confess
gentlemen, have never studied the pl-
mary system at all. and my friend says
that II we say It IS crude and undlgest-
ed we ought to have perfected II. Cen
tlemen, / never perfected anything IN my
life that I did not have 10 sit down IN
the midnight hour and get all the DOCKS
could get and then consult with the wise
men around me, end learn what they
had to say about it, IL my friend will
say to him in the most unaffected Gin
cority. with the highest admiration and
respect and sincere love for him, as Il
worthy comrade, and as noble comrade
Of our Old Dominion as ever we had in
Congress. that II he wants US TO have
q perfect primary system, why didn't
he get one Of those perfect systems that
are lying around in South Carolina ana
in Nebraska, that we, Ike himself, might
have an opportunity OF rejecting over II?
NV friend says that all that is the mat
ter with him IS that he is'bleeding for
the poor people. Gentlemen, all 1 have
got TO say for the poor people Is that
both Of the senators in the United States
from Virginia have been all the time and
are now just in line with the wisdom OF
my distinguished friend from the North
ern Neck.
AS TO SOME VOTES.
Mr. Jones: I would like 10 ask the Sena-
tor IL. when the junior senator two years
ago voted against the resolution TO coin
silver at the ratio OF l6 10 ], he voted
with the Senator or with me? And L
would like 70 ask another question:
whether, when he voted few days ago
to nut a tax Of 81 thousand on white
pine. he voted with the Senator or with
me?
Senator Daniel: II you have got dou-
ble-barrel gun, want 10 know Il. want
my friends to holler for Jones quick, be-
cause / am going TO say for him that my
friend Martin, when he was very young
man in the Senate-he had just gotten
there-was very much the same as my
friend Jones was about four years ago.
when he was trying 10 have us all sing
the song,
-Four pore years Of Grover,
Then We viii be In clover"
i want TO ask him II that is the clover
patch he wants TO bring as 70. / want
20 say about my friend Martin that he
Is Ike Jones. He is young and pro-
gressiYe Democrat, and he Is getting hght
daily. AS far as the question OF whlte
pine Is concerned. / do not think the
whole subject would pay for the scratch
Of a match 20 give US little light on the
subject. And 1t looks 10 me Ike Jones
is thinking more about Tom Martin than
he is about the bleeding people-perhaps
/ ought not to say that now.
Mr.. Jones: The convention VIII observe
one thing. / know you want 10 be fair.
When Senator Daniel asked me II could
name an instance when Senator Martin
had voted different from himself. and
from me. not the Democrats OF Georgia,
but from him and myself. / said could
name two instances, and / did name
them. and the Senator answers me by
saying that he voted with the people In
Georgia The question prop0unded was
whether he voted with you and me. Now
as 10 Grover Cleveland
Senator Daniel: Oh. well. you are right.
Brother Jones. loud and continuous
cheering.) There il no principle in the
Democratic platform that requires Mr.
Martin 10 vote one way or the other on
white pine.
Mr. Jones: ] did not charge him with
doing anything wrong.