The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-03-30
The Latter, He Shows, Attacked the
Walton law in 1895.
AND OFFERED 5lLLSAMENDINGlT
The Governor Says That His Attention
Was First Directed 60 the Dissatis-
faction with the Law by Mr..
Hay and other Democrats.



che seventh District made an alluslon
to mo which perhaps calls for slight no.
tive 40 my hands While this gentleman
was speaking Boo behalf Of Nj Epes and
IN defense of tho present election law OF
Virginia. Dee was interrupted by Mr..
STROBE. of Nebraska. and asked III II
was Lot true that the last Democratic
Governor OF Virginia. denounced the
law" whcreupon The following coloquy
cnsuCd
Mr. Hay: 7 will tell you about the last
Democratic Governor OF Virginia. The
gentleman from Indiana tMr Crum-
packer read au address delivered by this
Democratic Governor in December 1891
Just u- hc was going out OF Office. lie
lad thcn turned TO 90 gold Democrat. or
some other fish of that color.
Mr. steele. lie did NOT turn; no just
stayed 20 Democrat daughter.
"Mr HAY. so. sir. Doe had turned. Tie
WAS not as good q cold-bug ass you are.
nv long sight ln ise5 Doc sent mos
sage Go tho Legislator" of virginia. COM
monding this very law. under which that
ticket was printed. lie would have COM
mcnded 80 again 30 ho mad not known
that hc had politically cut HIS throat In
tho state of Virginia. and that. Ike
Iucifer hc never could rise aeain. That
g. the Governor you quote. and that IS
The sort of man hc is.
Mr. Yoa: he got to be e Eold-bug and
hc got 10 he honest.
Mr. Hay. he got TO bee "a gold-bug.
and no got iu O. iiN that he was ready 10
hitc the hand that had placed him I'm the
high place Doe then held. Ny friend from
Virginia lMr 8 OsD says that when ne
became "a hold-buc he became honest
We'll. $50 far as honesty is concerned. I
want to say to the gentleman from Nir-
rinia that thc Democrats of Virginia
nave as much honesty as. and more than,
tho Republicans of virginia"
Mr. Editor ~ there ls anything that
gentlemen like MT Hay have become
noted for. 81 is their assaults on others at
distance. and when there Is no oppOr-
tunity to reply.
Do this very chivairous attack OF tho
rcurcsentativ. from the Seventh district
are these charges.
First That / would not have recon-
mcuded changes m the existing election
statute I'm my last message TO the Cen
cral Assembly 81 I had not known I had
destroyed my political fuL0ro 10y my
course in refusing 10 endorse Bryan and
free silver in 1896. "A man prone 90 suspect
improper motives is r.tOsuy looking In
Dis neighbor for what he sees i'm him
SELF"
, win not Doe SID .ncharitablc as 10 sue-
gcst thaf 80 was thv knowledge the gem
teman had th Il he could not hope 20
secure seat in Congress except as
freo-si'Neri'', that induced him 10 re-
nounce DIS rtroue gold sentiments so Well
known ir. Richmond and elsewhere ana
become frcc-eilverite. donouncing his
former "pold bug associates who unlike
MIN possessed the courage or their COM
81 Aons and adhered Co their faith.
Twill not wound his sensitive feelings by
f1rscstInr that possibly he had pfoiited
r,. fh. provisions of the law he was de-
f.ndinr $50 earnestly. creating change iu
rhe views hc entertained as "a state sena-
t9r when Dee WAS opposing the Walton Dil
and pointing ont the opportunities IL al
forded Tor fraud.
Will not ba go unkind as 90 suggest
that DC was perhaps thc vision of seat
io CONGRESS for which Doe had been strlv-
,ue for wears that made him submit 10
-he nvpnotIziug influence of the advocates
of Oh. present law and finally became us
suuurtcr
When the gentleman essaycd TO impuen
r,.y motives prouricty at least should have
prompted him to first look well Go his own
rDlti..I hiI of health. fife certainly should
I.,, remembered the injunction of the
playwright. Heat not furnace FOR your
f,e s0 hot that 30 DO SINCE yourself
second After The yentlemans very
ORIGINAL reference TO the fan OF Lucifcr
aud DIS outburst of Virtuous Indignation
90 my course. 300 dramatic style be *
claimed. chat is the sort of man he Is.
r,ferrine to me-. forgetting that many peo-
pile would say that the picture he Grew
of me. was Bro fact the picture he had seen
that very morning 800 the mirror while
he was making his toilet.
Third The gentleman says. sull speak
ink of me. Gle got 90 De- a gold bug ana
Doc got BOO fN Doe was ready 20 bite the
hand which placed him $40 the hiel place
hc then held IL must have been dis
fr,eeing 90 behold how disconnected the
gentleman became when Dee was sud-
denly drawn away from his prepared
speech bv the interruption. he was so
r1addcncd that hc denounced every gold
bug as an migrate. I'm his estimation. 10
acu gold bug. is 90 Doe "a man who can De
rullty of "a crime of deeper dye than all
the train of human vices -insrautude.
What sclf-coude mnatiou this would
have been Dr. 80 had been uttered less
than Two years ago. But pray tell me what
hand have ] bitton? J have simply re-
fused Go allow Organism and Populism
o. bite me- and inOCculatc me with their
virus ] have preferred 10 keep pure
Democratic blood coursing In my veins,
and have taken every prccaution against
the disease which the gentleman caught
go quickly when the germs spread 20 his
congressional district He was IN sound
health until the breath OF frec-silverism
reached his valley and Piedmont sec
lions then instantly he contracted the
confarion I'm most violent form. the incu-
baflou and eruption being simultaneous.
30 have not bitten tho hand that ele-
Vatsd me 20 my late high position. but
the gentleman has stunr like wasp his
late goid bug associates In 1898 the
Democrats of Virginia IN convention as
eemblcd defeated by a vote OF 'l6 10 j.
froe silver proposition and adopted a
sound money platform. ] was nominated
OIL the FIRST ballot by this gold bug con-
venflon for Governor over two promi-
rent citizens and placed on that gold
hug platform and the gold bug hand OF
Eeprcsentatiyc Hay cast one Of the ball
lots which elected me II that platform
WIS Democratic IN 1893 II was Demo
cratic i'm fs6 My opponent in the GU
lernatorial contest was POpUlist. and
the present representative from the
Ssventh Congressional District denounced
Ispuisn, in vigorous terms in that CAM
paign Three years later he condemned
me Tor not embracing Populism and It's
dangerous doctrines. In 1875 with more
shan 40 90 Virginia Democrats ] declined
10 endorse the Chicago platform or 90
support william Jennings Bryan who.
along with Simpson. Kerr and Pence
accepted an invitation OF the Popuiists
20 canvass the state against me in 1898.
40 -. .a-a,re anff1farfarN In himself