Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-05
HE PRIMARY RECORD
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PACED

ON Georgia. Zones: MOI lie says no.
rhaps he got is from Nebraska. ]
uld ask for information. Was It the
me perfect primary system that nomi-
itcd William Jennings Bryan?
Mr. Jones: Bryan was nominated Tor
natOr in convention.
Il Senator Daniel: I understood my friehu
"a % say differently. l may be in error
Mut l understood my friend. Mr. Jones'
IA o say that he was nominated by ~
mary in Nebraska. and then deiedleu ~
|&orporatiOns at the polls. ] confess. gen
Xlemen. 1 have never studied the ~
fevstem at all. and my friend says lhal j
40 sav a IL crude and undlgested, we
n,,gb, ~ have perfected II. Gentlemen
~ never perfected anything in my HE
fbat ala not have TO SIT down N the
roidnieht hour and get all the DOCKS !
co1ld get and then consult win the WISE
- about me and learn what they had
- saw about IT, II my friend will allow
H. I'm tho utmost goodness. / Will say TO
Il i'm I'm the most unaffected sincerity
&ifh the highest admiration and respect
Il ma sincere love for him, as worthy
&ou.rade. and as noble a cOmrade of our
4 d Dominion as ever we had in Congress
IA hat IL he wants us 10 have a perfect
"a r.nary system. why didn't he get one OF
Il hose perfect systems that are lying
round in South Carolina and Nebraska.
t we. like himself might have the
rp0rtunity of rejecting over IL?
Ny friend says that all that is the
Inattcr with him is that ne is bleeding
<1lr the poor people. Gentlemen. all i
ave got 20 say for the poor people Is
|ihat both Of the senators in the United
Estates Senate from Virginia have been
~ the time. and are now, Just in line
with the wisdom of my friend from the
|Northern Neck.
AS TO SOME VOTES
Mr.. Jones: l would like 10 ask the
senator If. when the junior Senator two
years ago voted against the resolutions
10 coin silver at the ratio of 10 10 /, ne
voted with the Senator or with me? And
would like 10 ask another question:
Whether. when he voted few days ago
10 mt Il tax Of s. a thousand on white
pine. he voted with the Senator or with
me?
Senator Daniel: If you have got a
double-barrel gun ] want 10 know IT,
want my friends TO halloO for Jones
.QuIck. because l want TO say for him
|that my own friend Martin. when he was
O. very young man in the Senate-he had
31s, gotten there-was very much the
came as my friend Jones was about four
years ago. when he was trying TO have
Us an sing the song:
-Four more years with Grover,
Then we will be in clover"
want 10 ask him If that is the clover
patch DE wants TO bring as TO- | want to
tly about my friend. Mr.. Martin. that he
IS Ike Jones. He is a young and progress
rive Democrat, and he is getting light |
daily. As far as the question of white |
pine IS concerned. i do not think the |
whole subject would pay for the scratch |
81 q match 10 give us a little light on the |
subject. And It looks 10 me like Jones
g. thinking more about Tom Martin than
lie is about the bleeding people-perhaps
J ought not to say that now.
Mr. Jones: The convention will observe |
one thing | know you want to be fair |
When Senator Daniel asked me If l could |
name an instance when Senator Martin |
had voted different from himself. and |
nom me. not the Democrats of Georgia.
but from him and myself, l said l could |
name two instances and l did name them,
ana the Senator answered me by saying |
hat he voted with the people of Georgia.
The question prOpOunded was whether he |
voted with you and me. Now, as 10 Grover |
Cleveland
Senator Daniel: on. well. you are right.
Brother Jones. cloud and continued
cheering) There is no principle I'm the
Democratic platform that requires Mr.
Martin to vote one way or another on |
white pine
Mr.. Jones: ] did not charge him with |
doing anything wrong.
Senator Daniel: l have no feeling about |
his question. except TO say this. that |
L If a serious innovation upon the long
established policy of the Democratic
.arty-the conservative party Of the coun-
ry. I want 10 say 10 You an, / am get
Ing along very well this year and ! don't
want TO be practiccd upon / am content
b. believe that the honorable legislature |
of Virginia gave me an honest title to |
my Office Under this method the Demo- |