Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-05-04
PRESS OPINIONS,

John Shermans platform appears
to be q vindication of the electoral
steal of 1876. We would like to have
the country polled on that issue. 1t
would settle John for good.--Macon
Telegraph, Dem.
Hon. Roger @ Mills is showing
himself II credit to his. Stnte, his party
nnl his country. If any doubt ever
existed that he is tho man for his
place ut the head of the Ways and
Means Committee. il exists no longer.
Missouri Republican, Dem.
Senator Brown is the only member
of the Georgia delegation who is not
in favor of low tariff taxes. Senator
Brown is olso the only member of
the Georgia delegation who owns
convict camp coal mines.-Whccling
Register, Dem.
The effort to establish third
party Of prohihitonists in Georgia
will prove abortive. Georgia Demo
Gratis are good enough prohibitionsls
when the people want prohibition.
Sam Small and bis little gaug of
soreheads will please be seated
Cuthbert Liberal Dem.
The Providence Journal promises
IL fresh installincut of bribery cvi
dence i'll Rhode Island. Why don't
the Northern Republican newspa
pers turn their attention to these
Rhode Island frauds. The "grand
old party" there needs purifyiug.-
Savannah Morning News, D.u.
A Republican paper calls Mr..
Blaine The foremost ch"mpion of
protection This is unjust to John
Sherman, who wac strenuously up.
holding the robbery of the public by
a high tariff, while Blaine, not vet in
the Congress, was patriotically look.
ing after Government contracts
Chicago Herald, Dom,
The speech of Mr.. Mills in OPEN
ing tho great Congressional fight
against surplus and monopoly is Ike
subject of onlogisti. comment on all
sides. Even Republican orgaus nd
init that tho case for tax reduction
and revenue reform WAS never more
cosenily and succinctly presented.-
New Yorl; Star, Dem.
The highest compliment yet paid
Sir. Mills is tho fact that ever tariff
reform paper, North and South, pub
lishod the press synopsis of both his
and Pig Iron Kelly's speeches, wLile
many of the Republican and Randall
organs publish Kelly's and leave
Mills severely alone. Tho man who
laughs at Roger q. Mills in future
writes himself down IN ass.-Louis.
vile Times, Dem.
The result in Louisiana is due to
M active preliminary canvass; to the
nomination of Wnrmoueh; to lie
threats OF restoration of carpet bag
rule, and to Senator Hnlo's exploits
i'll The Senate. These things aroused
the whole State of Louisiana, and
the tariff policy of the Cleveland ad-
ministration instead of dlssatisfying
Democrats appealed TO their senses
OF truth and fair play. SO they wont
TO the polls and voted.
Courier Journal.
AS to Virginia, the Republicans
iAade the mistake Of allying them
selves with dishonesty there. As
regards the whole South, their atti
tude is one OF sectional hostility
The density OF prejudice that is still
unconvinced Of the futility, if not of
the injustice, of This policy is amaz
ing. Sherman, Chandler and Ingalls,
have just thrown away as promising
chance to carry three, if not more.
Southern States as could have been
offered. Boston Herald, Ind.
1t is n sad outlook for the Repub-
licans, bat the country still obsti
nntely refuses to go to rack and ruin
under Democratic rule. Each year
OF President Cleyrland's administra
ton the number of business FIJI ures
has diminished from the previous
year by nearly 1900, and now the
three monshs OF the year IL Winch
everything wns to collapse. because
OF the awful tariff reform, sbows tho