Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-05
DANIEL TO O'FERRALL
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PACED

cou' -ittr,en, and should not cs-
- ,r,tlclsm. and more than Rcpresen-
- Governors and Senators. None
-. ,~tticlsed the Supreme Courts de-
- ~ ,his case more severely than
S,d ,bc disscn;cnt judges themselves
1'u standing for the people and
- oeoric's RIGHTS will not hesitate TO
.',trIec either judges or presidents when
-. deserve TO be brought 10 the bar
~ ,,,hli, anlmadversion. But however
-, ,ho decision Of the Supreme Court
~ have merised the criticism 1t re-
lived from its own dissenting members.
. VAS not attacked" by the national
nemocrat- platform, unless, indeed, we
-,rain the moderate language used into
r attack" IL this be an attack ac-
,oriing 90 the linguistic theories Of those
v,o torture everything In the Demo-
cratic platform into sinister meaning
N This be IN attack let the new con-
s.-ucionsts make the most OF II. JEFF
f.rson warned his countrymen against
ti4ocs as the sappers and miners OF the
Corsfltuton." and his followers viii not
b. lacking In manly defence OF public
rirhts even IL they be called on 20 cri-
t-se judicial revolutionists. who upset
fhe judicial precedents grown hoary by
century Of acquiescence and universally
accepted as final
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
OF 1885 AND 1891.
The Virginia Democratic platform of
49, upon which Governor OFerrall was
nominated, ratified and endorsed the last
national Democratic platform. which
was that on which Mr.. Cleveland was
nominated at Chicago in 1892.
THIS vas urged by the Governors sup
rorters, and earnestly Joined them in
rf- o. he. fem, ,ys
action OF State conventions. followed IN
that case. and followed also by the re-
cent Democratic convention at Roanoke.
The Governor now upbraids the Roanoke
convention for following this customary
precedent which was observed when he
WAS nominated. His supporters and he.
TOO Cfor i talked with him at the con-
yention in 1893 and concurred in his view
thought that his own canvass should
be made. not only upon State issues,
but also upon the reafirmatlon OF The
last National Democratic platform Ut
terance Yet he now insists in his inter-
view that the Democrats Of Virginia.
should have made a platform adherng
10 fundamental Democratic principles and
State issues. and declares that he would
have then supported our nominees. The
Governors faction polled in Virginia in
1896 lust 2i27 votes for Palmer and
Buckner. The Democratic party polled
1895 for Bryan and Sewall. Was not
the Governor rating his following rather
too high. II he expected the representa-
tives OF the $4,000 to abandon party Gus
tom, abandon party principle, and aban-
don the long line Of precedents, Of which
his own nomination was the last, i'm or
der 10 cultivate the good graces of the
Palmerites7
Does he not apprehend that some OF
the loyal supporters Of Bryan might
have kicked against so extraordinary an
Illustration Of the mountain going 20
Mahomet? True he claims there arc
10000 gold Democrats in Virginia. This
may be. / cannot count, perhaps, as well
as the Governor But. II so, where Were
they i'm the last presidential election
when but 2.127 votes were polled for Pal
mer and Buckner?
If the 81 1000 of them not accounted for
ia that showing voted for Bryan, then
as loyal Democrats, supporting theiI
party colors. and dcferring TO the will
Of the majority, II would scarce be likely
that they would bolt in a State election,
such as is now on hand. when they did
not bolt in n national election, where
financial issues are more predominant.
il they did bolt then. and voted for Nc
Kinley, surely he would not think II
reasonable that Democratic counsels
should be controlled by tariff reformers
Of the Mckinley type, or financial re-
formers OF the Sherman type.
lie certainly never gave such counsel
when he was a militant member of the
Democratic organization and himself a
candidate for Democratic honors, and the
Roanoke convention naturally took its
own counsel and not the suppositious
views of outside enemies.
ROANOKE CONVENTION AND GOV
ERNORS EPITHETs.
had the honor of being a member Of
the Roanoke convention and the chair
man Of its Committee on Resolutions.
take my full share OF responsibility fol
It's endorsement Of the Chicago platform
and l advise all who question that plat
form TO read IL carefully and not to &C
cent loose criticisms as true indications
of its purport. The committee consisted
OF thirty members, twenty-nine OF whom
were present. They were unanimous II
their action in endorsing the platform
The convention was very numerousll
attended. II also was unanimous
consisted very largely OF the same per
sons who nominated Governor - fsrIh'
I'm 1893 IL consisted altogether OF IN
same classes of persons who nominated
him and was a noble and Imposing bod.
OF veomanry. artisans. merchants manu-
facnIrers bankers, and professional mel
OF the State than which our homes hIe
sides counting-rooms, ana WORKSHOP
eannot supply a better IL transacted IL
business with patient ana per'ihaclou
diligence and good humor, occupying wv
DAYS I'm its session, and careIuiiy oeiloe
ling its every step OF procedure. IL ha'
he rboica OF candidates from the ables
ana r,ost resnected men OF the Common
wealth. The defeated bore themselVe
vitb manly and exemplary conduct. IN
sl,.eessf,ll candidates were Tyler, kchois
ana Montague who are known py al
mon TO be worthy and well quahheu' I
.e honest lust. and capable. And IL de
elared as its principles those doctrine
which received In the candidacy OF VIII
Siam Jennings Bryan the most huineiou
and enthusiastic endorsement ever sne
IN condidate or cause in the Unite
s,ates saving alone that given TO WI
ss,, MCKINLEY and the Republican part
n 1896 s..,so. ,h,s
,onvention and it's action. lie has SC
contracted his vision that ne styles ts
os6ers as "crazed with temporary
oower,,-as deaf 10 all appeals FOL
harmony" and as ''in their frenzy de-
caring they did not want the animation
- goid-men." This extravaganza an
swers itself. The epithets need no an
swer. They ill-become his exalted sta
ion. They seem especially hl-placed' as
applied 20 those of his ieiiow-cltlzehs
~ whom he owes in part that exalta-
ion and who have been his comrades
teratofore I'm many conflicts. There was
Inc most perfect harmony I have ever
cen in any convention. There was no
supeal made by any one that did not
ave respectful audience. II there was
any one present who entertained the
Governors peculiar Views, he ala no'