The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-23
sO'FERRALL'S HISTORY.
Career Just Ended Analysed By
One Who Studied 1t Well.

Or. Edward Leigh Poll, long an a 1'-
mirer Of Colonel O'Terrall, yesterday PAID
,ho appended tribute to him, giving an
3 nate OF the mun based upon Ia care
f,,l ANALYSIS OF his career. DR.. Pell sald
"rhe time will come when the name OF
O.Ferrall will occupy Il foremost place IN
TIM list of Virginia's greatest Governors.
That time would have already come o on
for the temporary eclipse which the
rntcs have decrecd shnl1 over,ake every
southern public man who 8darcs to differ
with his party. stse
g8t.A gentleman of distinction, VINO WIS
a careful and Interested observe or sor
Governor O'Ferrnll's career throughout
|$hIs administration, said to me at Its
close TINT no man had grown SO rapidly
IN his estimation as the retiring Gov
ernor: and he could not find words to
| cxpress his admiration for the man whose
| sublime moral courage steadfnstness OF
|. purpose sanity of Judgment and devo-
ton to duty had combined to, give TO
Virginia ono Of the most successful ad-
| ministrations the Commonwealth had
ever known. BIZ q 3{iii 55 4.
A Fearless Governor.
"We do we'll to honor the memory Of
1.-The gallant Captain O'Forrall and his
heroic deeds in time of war; but Viz
glnians do themselves no honor when
| they pass lightly over the equally bril-
liant career OF the fearless Governor
who was just as brave In the piping times
OF peace when 1t was no longer easy to
| bio a hero. 3 ~
Ell was first drawn to the man while
| making 4 an Investigation Of his record
In relation to tho lynch law epidemic
which reached an unusually severe stage
| In the South during his administration.
AS result Of that investigation was
able to state In an article for the Re-
! view of Reviews" that while during the
| fourteen yenrs Immediately preceding
Governor O'Ferrall's inauguration there
| we're sixty-two lynchings within tho
bounds OF the State, during the four years
Of his administration there had been
chief executive In q position either to
prevent the crime or punish the Of
/ tenders.
Ii,,"And I was glad to emphasize tho fRss
i that tho keynote was struck by tho
i Governor himself at the beginning Of his
administration Tho solemn declaration,
of a Con edernto veteran whose bravery
i was q proverb among ibis people thai
i mob violence in Virginia must cease, at
once awokc q large part of the lnwleza
clement to It's senses, and the lnw-nbid-
4 Ing element. led by the Richmond Times
and other leading papers OF tho state,
rallied at onco to the man who haG
given such unmistakable uttcrance T.
their sentiments.
A Famous Answer.
!. LET us not forget that tho victory wa
not won without q lhow, and that there
were times when It. Governor O'lTerral
{ had wnvered for Il moment the battle
} would hnve been lost, AS said In tht
article to which ] have referred. there
, were times when tho MIR snelled o.
, war, There We're times when the sol
der boys went scurrying! across the coun
, try as If q rebellion had broken on
somewhere There were times when thes
brave boys reached the county jail JUS
ahead Of tho mob, and shudder pnsset
over the Commonwealth when u wa
found that the prisoners whose llVes ht'
been barely saved were INNOCENT or IN
crimes of which they were CHARGED An
: there was n time when captain wh'
9 wired tho Governor that IT would b.
0 impossible to got his company togethe
: ii time to go to tho rescue OF n prs
q oner threatened with mob violence 60
o m answer back With startling mAli
q tnry ring. 'Nothng should DO lmpos
a s,ble to n soldier, you must CO.
q "Thnt answer alone should make IN
!, mama Of O'Ferrall immortal
= let mo add that there - nothng J
: our history since tho war OF Whloh VII
ginia should be proud Grand surely w
!, elnia knows how to be proud-than ne
record on this question during GOVERN
II uO,Narroll,s adminfst rat iOn," W