The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-08
kNIEL BURNS O'FERRALL.
rery Charge Of the Governor in
His Interview Refuted.
fERRAIL's POLITICAL RECORD.
St.r BcinE Nominated by Demu-
I...t,c Convention on silver Plat.
form, He Deserts the Party.

vnchburg, Va. September 4.--United
40. Senator John W. Daniel has ad-
.sed a letter to MIR. Carter Glass, edi-
., thu Lynchburg News, letter which
n be published tomorrow. in which he
,,,es m the interview OF Governor O'Fer-
l, published In the Washington Post Of
Il Wednesday.
senator Daniel starts out by saying that
arc would be no occasion for him to say
,pord respecting the interview but for
fact that the governor makes an I'm
,nded and unproyolked criticism upon me
banieD and in correcting that criticism
EN- it proper to point out some other err
re into which he has fallen"
,enator Daniel quotes the following para
aph from the O'Ferrall interview:
Nor could forget that 1t was Senator
aniel. of my own State, who offered
solution In the senate OF the United
ates commencing Mr.. Cleveland for his
urse in connection with the suppression
the mob at Chicago. This resolution WIS
dopted without dissenting vote. Yet, If
remember Alright. Senator Daniel was
pminent member of the committee on
solutions at the Chicago convention when
at committee denounced Mr.. Cleveland
doing the very thing for which SEN
or Daniel had praised him. If Senator
hniel raised his voice in the committee
in the convention against the plank, l
I've not heard Of it,"
To this Senator Daniel replies:
"The governor does not remember
light He is wrong in both Of his allega-
pns.
"First was not member OF The COM
ittee on resolutions at the Chicago con-
kntion.
Second. there was no plank In the plat
rm 'denouncing Mr.. Cleveland for the
ery thing for which i had praised him
pr any plank which could be .arly con-
rued as of such import.
ut is true" Senator Daniel continues,
that he was first appointed on the reso-
tions committee at Chicago, but vas ef-
brwards chosen temporary chairman of
lie convention and Editor Glass was made
be Virginia member Of the com mittee."
Senator Daniel then quotes the plank OF
e Chicago platform denouncing "arbi-
Fary Interference by Federal authorities In
zeal affairs" and to Governor O'Ferrall's
barge that 1t denounces Mr.. Cleveland
Tor the very thing for which l tDanieD
raised him." Senator Daniel says that by
fair grammatical construction can the
ank be so interpreted; that the derup-
aticn Of arbitrary Federal interference
affairs lis an old time democratic doc
zine: that this arbitrary Interference is
be main general proposition" and gov
fnnSent by injunction" the specification,
be expression of one thing being the ex-
usbon OF another thing; that this clause
las not regarded by Mr.. Cleveland's per-
bnal friends in the convention as having
eference to his action at Chicago which
emocrats in the senate and house had
hdorsed; that he (DanieD never beard
rom any one at the convention and never
lrmised that any one supposed Mr..
leveland to be aimed at in this cause. "
I'm point of fact. Mr.. Editor says
Tho were present in committee when this
ause was passed on, all reference to Mr..
leyeland was expressly disclaimad. and
IT. Altgeld. to whom the plank had been
imputed. was not a member of the COM
pittee and had nothing to do with it..
In conclusion OF his point, Senator Fan
says he has always defended Fir. CIeve-
Ind for protecting the post routes and
pals from mob violence by United States
loops. HE had" says Senator Daniel,
IN my opinion the same right TO do 1t,
nd duty to do it, that President Bucna1an
nd TO send United States marines, under
e. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart. to defend
be United States armory at Harpers
Terry against John Browns insurrec-
on"
Senator Daniel adds:
The governor has evidently thought
lat 1t would be reprehensible in a senator
indorse a presidents action and then
ecome even his silent assaiant for what
e had praised him. So think l. What
oes the governor think of a public officer
no, during many terms of service in con-
ress, votes every time for free and un-
mited silver coinage at 16 to land be-
pines governor through canvass In
men he boasts OF his ardent devotion
the principle, and of having voted for 1t
lany times in one day at 16 to 1, II to /,
to l. 10 to /. 20 to Indeed, at all the
auos proposed-and who. after he is in
ince heaps denunciatino and opprobrium
these who stand by the Doctrine which
SO often upheld. and declares that the
uea with which he was so long and notably
lehtified is not democratic, but born in
opuiistic councils. May he not find sub
et for reflection without attempting by
trained and attenuated construction to
lake me appear inconsistent In matter
oout which l have been constant and In
ariahle?"
senator Daniel discusses the democratic
NATIONAL and State platforms of 1892 and
osS at some length Quoting Governor
rerrall's contention that "the convention