The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-08-21
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guarding its interests. They have been
SO literally supported and their views
been so generally respected, that they
have come to think they are the party,
and to question their right to direct Re
publican policy, is treason. They have,
however, taken step beyond the limits
of liberation, and assumed a role that
they will find it impossible to maintain.
The abuse they have heaped upon Sena-
tor Quay, and those Senators who agree
with him. that the Elections bill was I'M
wise in its conception. and would be hurt
full in its effects, manifests a spirit that
will not be tolerated by the great mass
of the party throughout the country.
They have mistaken the public pulse;
they have not studied the current of
public thought, and have not grasped
the fact that the influences and cOndi-
tions which now mould public sentiment
and direct public action, are far removed
from the fierce passions of twenty years
ago, and are foreign to the friendly rela-
tions that are rapidly growing up be-
tween the different sections of the Union.
They are cropping among the lava beds,
and wandering among the fossils OF by
gone times; forgetting that we are living
under a new and brighter dispensation,
and are surrounded by more catholic
and propitious influences and associa-
tiOns than we were score of yeare ago.
They do not seem to enter into the spirit
and impulse of the times, or recognize
that the country is forging ahead on
lines of industrial development, social
order and material progress, compre-
hending the well-being and happiness
of all the people and the grandeur OF
the Republic. Bourbonism intensified,
would be the fitting term to designate
such conduct. 1t is the worst kind of
mossbackism, and is not in accordance
with the progressive spirit and liberal
policies of the Republican party. The
country will not stand idly by and see
backward by a few vindictive partizans
who would stir up sectional feeling
and set aflame sectional passion, in the
futile and false hope of gaining a little
political power.
The Tribune and Press will have to
clear the track for the car of Republican
progress or they will be crused under it's
onward sweep, never again to be raised
to the position in party counsels they
have heretofore held. Their abuse of
| Ouav ci,n,,lxy hooouca ha racOUnizar tho
political situation, and the policy of
moving along in harmony with the SEN
timent of the great mass of the conserva-
tive element of the Republican party, is
equally abusive of Il majority of the
Republican Senators who practically
voted for his resolution, in voting down
Senator Hoar's-a vote that defers to the
growing sentiment of the party, by
which alone it can retain public conf
dence. 1t should not be overlooked by
these two great papers that the people
recognize and respect leaders only when
they lead in the direction the people
want them to go. 1t is simply suicidal
to attempt to change the current of
public thought and feeling when their
source is in conservative, practical in
fluences, and i'll sympathy with the ma
terial interests and business relations of
the country. 1t is to conserve these
that parties are presumed to be institu-
ted, and not to be mere machine to be
worked for partizan advantage and to
crafty selfish ambition. Real states
manship is what the country demands,
and not the devices and expedients of
party partizans, looking to encompass
party necessities, and ignoring the greater
more enduring and far reaching consid-
erations which relate to and affect the
progress and growth of the nation and
the welfare of all the people.
Clifton Forge Banking and Construc-
ton Company.
The Clifton Forge Banking and Con-
struction Company has been formally
organized under charter granted by the
Circuit Court of Allegheny county, with
the following officers:
President-Edward Echols.
Vice President-W A. Burnett.
Secretary-John l.. Duncan.
Treasurer John J. Stack, Sr.
General Manager. G. King.
Directors-W. A. Burnett, John L.
Duncan, J. J. Stack, ST., 7. P. Bowles,
j. F. White, B. B. Eskridge, w. E. Craig.
B. F. Hughes, Adolph Loeb, J. j. Muir
ply, and J. FL. Bell.
Capital stock, 100000. in shares of
$1,000 >each-payable, so cents on SUBJ
scription and $1.00 per share on each
succeeding month, except the last pay
ment, when will be $780, The Company
has secured 140 eligible business and
residence lots on the plat of the Clifton
Forge Company at cost of $40,0 and
holds $4,000 in the capital stock of the
Clifton Forge Company. 1t is proposed
to erect $4,000 worth of buildings on
this property, at the earliest practicable
time and inaugurate their scheme upon
a comprehensive basis.
The officers of the Company consti-
tute guarantee for its solidity and sue
cess. They are all gentlemen of bust
ness experience and success, and with
| Illtlf uulleu GHOFGS, VIII lHdhc tile OIu-
ton Forge Banking and Construction
Company one of the useful and profita-
BILE institutions of that growing section
of the State.
Clifton Forge is destined to be city
of no mean dimensions 1t has been
kept back because there was no way to
improve. When the property of the
Clifton Forge Company is placed on the
market and its lots opened to sale, then
the real work Of progress will commence.
The holdings of the Banking and Con-
struction Company give them splen-
did start, and engineered, 'as it will be,
by sagacious, earnest business men. it
will press forward with rapid strides.
That whole district is one vast body of
material wealth, which only requires
the application of means and energy to
develop and convert into active values,
and this Company will play an import
ant part in this, and be richly remune-
rated in the large returns that it's opera
tions will assure for the investments that
may be made.
We commend the Company and it's