Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-10-27
A VISITORS VIEW.

VISITORS VIEW.
Sam Small, visiting in Virginia,
takes view of the political situation
and draws his conclusions. He
writes the Constitution about it:
Here in Virginis there is blood
on the moon. Charley O'Ferrall, the
Democratic candidate for governor,
Is oscillating between his seat in con
gress and the county seat hustings,
appealing to HE compatriots to "give
the party time and to hold on a
while and see what we will do while
the Populist and the Prohibition can
didates are making a daily and vigor
GUS canvass of the State. The sena.
torial succession is the stake-Bar
bour having died aud General Eppa
Hunton being the present appointed
incumbent-and then a full term is
to be voted either Fitz Lee, John S
Martin Hugh Conrad or Governor
Mckinney. Butsoutside of Virginia
few people seem to be at all aware
OF the gravity of the situation or The
danger that threatens to send an in.
dependent to the Senate of the Unit.
ed States.
by all the signs in the air yir
ginia is in momentous struggle.
The result may affect her political
status for decade to come. The
plain issue ia between Democracy
and Popuism.
"The Republicans as party are
played out in Virginia. This year
they did not dare to risk nonina-
tion. Many of their flexible currency
and free trade ilembors have quietly
changed over into the Democratic or
Populist ranks, and many of their
colored members, seeing the party
disintegrating, have become indie
pendent, Populist or Democratic, as
occasion might best induce them.
sA1ahone is no longer mentioned.
He is spelled out back number and
has backed out completely from fur
ther publicity. There is no Repub.
llcan leader or party any longer in
the Ola Dominion-zand the people
thank God
ssInplaceefit, however, iias como
to ths front a co pnsife i mt. ersa:: q 1.
BILE foe. tslIs the Populist party,
with General james q. Field, late
candidate for the vice presidency in
1892, at its head, and having strong
organization and following in most
of the agricultural counties of the
State. The party is eviiently in bet
ter condition than last year and has
the great advantage of facing di-
vided, instead of solid and enthusi-
astic Democracy. The national stu
alton, close TO Wow in congress at
Washington, showing that tho Dem
ocratic party is not agreed within it.
self upon the all important point of
the countrys finances, is giving the
Democratic candidates great trouble
ard lending an effective weight to
the arguments of the Popnlists that
mo relief can be expected from Cleve
land and n Democratic congress-
"It is one of the queerest situa
tions that ever supervened in the pol.
itics of any country after an over,
whelming victory. 1t takes more
than an ordinary political prestidiga
tour to handle the facts in the case
without fatal blunders before mn av.
erage crowd of his wondering, puz
zled countrymen.
"The Populsts will be helped in
the campaign by the implacable lie
pnblicans whose logical alliance is
with anybody to beat the Democrats
The outcome, if victory, will be O
barren one to Republicans. since the
Populist war is as much against past
Republican as present Democrati,
policies. but these Republicans will
find sweet revenge in Democratic
defeat. no matter who is benefited
thereby. In most of the counties
they will support the Populist legis
lative tickets in the hope of seeine
Populists sent to tho United States
Senate to succeed Barbour-one fol
the short and one for the full term.
If the Populists should control the
senatorial election it is very certain
that old General Field would be
chosen and his game old Confederate
form would be added to the Stewart
PETER, Kyle and Allen combination
He is not as big whiskered as either
Stewart or Peffer, nor as long wind
ed as Allen, but he blows "a healthy
bugle,' as the boys say, and has old
Virginny grit and bottom when il
comes to trial of physical endur.
ance.'
"Another help to the Populists
and o menace to the Demos Gratis is
the activity of the Prohibitionists
The cold water party has been tena
cious in Virginia and is stronger to
day than ever. 1t has O State ticket