Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-11-23
FRIDAY, NOV. %, lS0
NEVER GIVE UP THE SHIP.


NEVER GIVE UP THE SHIP.
When tho Democratic party swept
the country like cyclone in 1890
and 1892, electing President and
an overwhelming majority in Con
gross, with more than a million of
the popular vote in it's favor, the Re
publican party did not change its
principles or surrender it's organiza
ton. 1t did not give up tho fight or
run away from the battlefield III
fright.
Now that the public verdict has
been changed and tho ReE ublicans
appear on top, why should the Dem.
ocrat;c party become delnorali1od Mt
the result and give up tho ghost in
despair7 Why should any Democrat
sulk in his tent and think that tho
Republicans have another thirty
years lease upon the government?
Aud yet, there are Democrats of that
Fort OF temperament and cowurdice
that are really disgusting to tn
right spirited and thoughtful Demo.
Gratis OF the country. There is no
more reason TO suppose that the
Democrats cannot win again in 1896
than the Republicans had to suppose
that they would win by such sweep
ing majority this time, or thun the
Democrats had to expect their great
victories in 1S90-'92. We need not
expect victory, however, in 1896, or
any other yeat, if we drift into dc
spair and lukewarmness, and fail to
at once reorganize our shattered
forces on right lines. That WE may
do 40 it is well to read what some OF
our leading men have to say upon
the subject. We already know the
real causes of our late defeat, and it
is easy to comprehend the only RENE
dy that can be successfully applied.
When asked the other day his opin.
itn Moor the subject, Secretary Nor
ton said:
We'll, that must depend entirely
upon The men who have the courage
Of their convictions. We need now
men who will consider public ques
tons without regard to their own
future preferment OF popularity. We
have had too many in high positions
to whom the question, 'How shall |
he renominated and re elected has
hoen paramount to all other issuos.
W short, we have had great many
Ill public life for revenue only We
nasd real sincere patriotism, which
will study the good of all, rather
than the advancement of one. That
sort OF patriotism iu genuine Demo
cracy. We need leaders who prefer
to die with their self respect rather
Than to live and retain Office without
it,"
Secretary Bayard gives his opin
lon, and while we do not take him
aiways as the best guide, his views
aro worth printing. He says:
Il don't want to run afoul OIL
thoso gentlemen who wore RESPONSE
bic for the delay in passing ths tar
III bill, but, as I say, the path o.
duty is unmistakab1e, aud the neces
sity for pure Democratic tariff legis
iation was never as great as it i,
now. The bills for free raw mate
rials should be passed immediately
and then the country will be able t.
contemplate the Democratic idea O
the tariff in full working order TO
two years before another nationa
election rolla around. II this is don
have little fear that the verdict viii
BE- satisfactory in 1896"
In o hotter written by Hon. Wn
u Wilson Oh the Democratic disaste
including his own defeat, he says:
II do not believe that the peopl
have rebnked tariff reform In thei
action last Tuesday, for when I loo
ogsr the whole country do not fn
that to have The common ground r
their action. No question was eve
SO well and 80 thoroughly fought OF
n popula, discussion before them