Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-07-01
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L. That in our dolibrate Judgment
it is absolutely essential to the sue
cess of our candidates and our prin.
ciples in the coming presidential con-
test TINT all personal rivalries and
jealousios among our leaders and
their adherents should be buried and
forgotten; Tint the practice of crimi
nation and rccrinination, already too
much indnlged in, should no longer
be tolerated; that as brethren of the
same political household, and cher
ishing the same political faith, we
should cultivate n spirit of concilia.
ton, concession and compromise, and
that chr watchword should DO 'Every
thing for tho cause and nothing for
men"
ADHERE TO CARDINAL PRINCIPLES.
2. We still maintain our allegiance
to those cardinal principles of gov
crnment which we have been taught
to cherish rs the sheot.anchor of our
safety and tue palladium of our lib
critics. We do not believe that all
the barriers of the Constitution have
been broken down, that oil its limi!a
tons of power hive been removed,
that the federal character of the Re
public has been destroyed and that
the government of we'll defined and
limited powers created by our fath.
ers has been converted into IL con.
solidated empire. We believe that
the Union is to be iiidissolublc.
but that it il to be IN indissolubie
Union of free and Independent
States"
B. That there has never been a
time in our history whom it was more
important to oppose the contralizing
tendencies of the General Govern
lnent and to maintain the States
rights doctrine of strict construction.
III we would preserve our liberties
we must guard with ceaseless Vigil
lance the right of local self govern.
mont and tue reserved powers of the
States under the Constitution
While these exist the Republic will
live. Whom these are overthrowu
the Republic will perish.
THE FORCE BILL CONDEMNED.
4. That we desire to place upon
record our earnest protest and sol
emn relnonstrance against any re-
newal of the attempt by those in an
thority to secure the ;mssage of the
Force BILL" believing as we do that
the enactment of that unconstitu-
tionnl and infamous measure would
not only be wholly destructive of the
autonomy of the States and utterly
subrorsivc of the liberties of the peo
pie, but that it would seriously i'm
peril the pence of our homes and the
safety Of our society
S That tariff is tax, TINT nil
unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa
zion, that the Government has no
power under the Constitution to col
lect from the people any money ex
cept what is necessary to dcfray the
expenses OF it's economical admins
tration, that one class of our people
should not be required to pay trib
ute money for the benefit of another
class, and that the burden of govern.
ment should be imposed upon the
iuxures and not upon the necessa
ries of life.
6. That wo favor the unconditional
and iinmediute abolition of the in.
ternal revenue systcm-a nursery for
spies and informers, menace to the
freedom of elections, an intolcrable
burden ON The taxpayers, IL source of
the greatest corruption in its prac
Teal operations, special burden on
the State aud her interests.
THE OLD PLATFORM nEAFr1RMeD.
T. That we reafirm the Virginia
Democratic platform of 1889, upon
which Philip w. Mckinney was elect
ed Governor of Virginia, and all the
provisions thereof. We congratu
lato our Governor upon his excellent
administration, and especially upon
the fact that it has been signalized
by the settlement through wise legis-
iatlon OF the long vexed issue, the
State debt. We reaflirm, also. the