Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-21


basis Of representation entities Tnzc
well county to thirteen delegates aud
thirteen altcrnates. divided Us fol.
lows: Jclfersovillc District. ): Clear
Fork District, 5; Maiden Spring Dis
trict, 3. All who expect to support
the Democratic ticket ere cordially
invited to participate Ill the meeting.
j. II. WmrrLry,
L. A. LYNCH, Scc'y. Chairman.
THE DEAIOCRATIC PARTY.
The Coulior Journal has had very
little to say i'll the current talk about
Democratic unity, because it has not
thought that unity mcnaccd by any
Immediate dangers. The party went
into tho last presilentins campaign
fairly united and, though beaten, it
camo out of il to encounter no serious
discussions. On all other issues OK
cept the tariff, there is absolute
agreement. AS TO the tariff, nothin"
can be attempted by the party us an
organized body, for two years; and
taking counsel OF the n,lnoniton
that Sufficient unto the day is The
OWL thereof" we have hoped, and
we still hope, that time will bring I'LL
things round for tho best. IT. the
menntlme, 1T is our purpose to deal
with the situation ne we find il, to
discuss men and measures rs they
successfully arise, and seem TO re-
qniro il, and, on questions of doe
trine, involving Democratic gospel
and law, to give the country the best
the shop affords.
There is II difference between The
Office OF Administration and the Office
OF Opposition. When the Democrat.
&c party came into power in $3.50, tho
Affirmative duty of Administration
was upon us, and, from the first, the
Courier Journal urged upon tho Pres
idont an advance upon certain lines
of reform. Ii Mr. Cleveland had
adopted this course, and, instead Of
starting out with Il wild goose chase
against silver, Ind made his second
message to Congress his first, in
other words, had he substituted the
reform OF the tariff for the suspen
sion of silver coinage. he would have
gained two years toward the oducu
ton OF the patty and the people
We do not say thut would have
altered the result of the last election.
because we arc fixed in the opinion
that 1t was not the tariff issue that
defeated us i'll that election. but the
enemies whom Mr. Cleveland had
raised up for himself in the State of
New York. We carried the two sup.
posed to be tariff States of Connect.
cut and New jersey. We made gains
i'll all tho manufacturing contcrs. We
lost New York on account Of tho in.
action OF the open hostility of friends
in 1854, whom, in 1888, Mr.. Clcyo-
land had converted into enemies
Ihls is The simple truth, known to
oYory member of the National Demo.
cratic Campaign Committee, which.
if there was occasion for il. could
supply names, places and dates in
abundance.
All this, however, belongs to the
past, and, now us ever, there is no
good crying over spilled mix. Mr.
Cleveland did the best he knew how.
according to his lights, and, in the
greater affairs of his great Office, he
did exceeding well. The party, too,
did the best il could. We were beat.
en-, and there's an end of it. Let MS
close down that page, and, when the
time comes, let us DO ready, with our
eyes open and our senses about MS.
to tnrn to the next.
The discussion of leader for 1892
seems to us both premature and fry
olous Half n century of American
history teaches us that three is Il
Official generation in II country and
system such as ours. Whoever
dreamed Of James X. Polk as a can
didate for President three years be
fore he was inaugurated In 1911 he
was defeated for governor of Tonnes
: see. In lS43 he was defeated again.
1t seemed kind of absurditv that