The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-05
O'FERRALL'S SILVER VOTE
yxtrED FOR ALL RATIOS WHEN
HE WAS IN CONGRESS.
DANIEL SHOWS HIS OWN CONSISTENCY
A Singing Taunt at 0'feralPs Proposition
to Support the Ticket It Il Were Op-
posed by Republicans or Populists
and Yet Denouncing II.

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and Yet Denouncing Il.
Iynchburg, Va, Sept. 4.-United
States Senator John w. Daniel has ad-
dressed a letter to Mr.. Carter Glass. ed
itor of the Lynchburg News, which will
be published tomorrow, IN which he re-
plies to the interview of Gov. OFerrail
published in the Washington Post of last
Wednesday.
Senator Daniel starts out by saying
that there would be no occasion for him
to say a word respecting the O'Ferrall
interview but for the fact that the Gov
ernor "makes an unfounded and un-
provoked criticism upon me OanieD, and
in correcting that criticism | deem It
proper to point out some other errors INTO
which he has fallen"
Senator Daniel quotes the following
paragraph from the O'Ferrall interview:
''Nor could forget that it was Senator
Daniel Of my own State who offered
resolution in the Senate Of the United
States commencing Mr.. Cleveland for
his course in connection with the sup
preston of the mob at Chicago. The res
olution was adopted without dissent
ing voice, yet, if I remember Alright,
Senator Daniel was prominent member
of the committee on resolutions at the
Chicago convention when that committee
denounced Mr.. Cleveland for doing the
very thing for which Senator Daniel had
praised him. II Senator Daniel raised
his voice in the committee, or in the con-
vention against this plank, have not
heard of it."
To this Senator Daniel replies:
"The Governor is wrong in both of his
allegations. / was not a member of the
committee on resolutions at the Chicago
convention, nor was there any plank in
the platform denouncing Mr.. Cleveland
for the very thing for which / had
praised him.
''It is true" Senator Daniel continues,
"that he was first appointed ON the reso-
lutions committee at Chicago, but was
afterwards chosen temporary chairman
Of the convention, and Editor Glass was
made the Virginia member Of the com
mittee."
Senator Daniel then quotes the plank
of the Chicago platform denouncing TAR
bitrary interference by Federal authori-
ties in local affairs" and to Governor
OFerrall's charge that it denounces Mr..
Cleveland ''for the very thing for which
/ DanieD praised him." Senator DAM
el replies that by no fair grammatical
construction can the plank be so inter
preted that the denunciation Of arbitra-
nv Federal interference in local affairs
is old-time Democratic doctrine; that
this "arbitrary interference" is the
main general proposition and govern
ment by injunction the specification"
In conclusion Of this point, Senator
Daniel says he has always defended Mr.
Cleveland for protecting the post routes
and mails from mob violence by United
States troops.
He had, says Senator Daniel, in my
opinion, the same right to do it and
duty to do it that President Buchanan
had to send United States marines un-
der r. d. Lee and J. Il. b. Stuart to
defend the United States armory al
Harper's Ferry against John Browns
instruction. Senator Daniel adds:
sThe Governor has evidently thought
that it would be reprehensible in O
Senator to endorse a Presidents actor
and then become his silent assailant fol
what he had praised him. So think I
What does the Governor think Of pub
lie officer who during many terms o.
service in Congress, votes every time fol
free and unlimited silver coinage at II
to 1, and becomes Governor through {
canvass in which he boasts of his arden
devotion to principle, and who, aftel
he is in office, heaps denunciation ant
opprobium on those who stand by the
doctrine which he so often upheld, ant
declares that the idea with which ht
was so long and notably identified il
not Democratic, but born OF Populisti'
councils'T'
Senator Daniel discusses the Democra
tic National and State platforms o.
1892 and 1893 at some length, quotins
Governor OFerrall's contention tha
'I'he convention which nominated hin
in 1858 repudiated the doctrine of free
unlimited and independent coinage of sill
yer and declared for bimetallism an(
through international agreement"
Senator Daniels comments: "If so, the
governor himself speedily repudiates the
platform ON which he was nominated
The convention was held in Richmond
on August II, 1898. The candidate
nominated for Governor went from the
convention back to his seat in the House
of Representatives, Of which he was
then a member, and ON August %, voted
in that body for the free and unlimited
and independent coinage of silver-with.
ont a trace Of International agreement
in the proposition-yea voted for it at
all the proposed ratios"
As to the Governors reference to the
"attack on the Supreme Court" Senator
Daniel says he is not sure to what
clause the Governor refers. He quotes