Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-10-05
WYSOR ON WALKER.

WYSOR ON WALKER.
James a. Walker was former nd
vocnto Of tho principles he now bit
terly denouuces. The big stock of
anntheinas he hurled 1T the Republi
can party fer number of years is
available for his present purposes.
He has appropriated tho storeotypcd
Republican arguments be rcpuIiated
aud spit upon ill the past. He heap
ed upon its men aud measures in
vective aud denunciation. limited on.
I'ly by his vocabulary, and posed rs
the special champion OF Democracy.
Thieves, scoundcels, vanduls, robbers.
pirates, carpet bnggers, scalnps and
scalawags were mild epithets to stig-
Matte tho Republican party. But
now wootsy loves tootsy and tootsy
loves wootsy and toot+ loves woots,
but it is going to tnke lots of footing
to toot wooty through. His allegi
anco 10 the Democratic party did not
full until he was defeated for Altor.
ney General by General Ayers in
1885. That was the lust straw that
broke the camel's back. 1t was then
that woutsy learned to love tootsy.
President Cleveland broke j. Hump.
ton Hoge's political back and Gcner
al Ayers broke the political back of
tho Navarro nominee The Demo
cracy is under eternal Obligations To
Grover and Ayers. it's great breakers
ct unsound political backs. After
the defeat by General Ayers he came
before the convention aud pledged
undying devotion to tho party, and
said that while he WIS disappointed
he know that he wus in the house of
his friends, and the Richmond Dis
patch called him ''Big hearted Jim
Walker" But scarcely had he sh,
the dust of the city from his feet be
fore he was abusing the Democrats.
SUPPORTED CLEVELAND.
He snys that he voted for Cleve
land i'll 1884. Between 81 and IS
like Nouh's dove, he found nowhere
to rest the sole of his political feot,
nor even an olive leaf to boar back
from the weary waste of waters to
safety i'll the ark of tho Democratic
party, but like tho lono albatross afar
from friends, bewailed lis political
fate. In 1888 LIE ,ught refuge in
the Prohibition party. In '92 the
spirit OF unrest drove him to support
Harrison and the force bill, with oil
that means TO the southern people,
and yet he boldly declares that no
Stands where he always stood. That
is true, he has stood for himself first,
last and all the time. What do the
Republicans want with him if he
stands where he always stood? Where
does he stand, anywhere, everywhere,
, or nowhere
He says he is for protective tar
iff. When did he adopt these views?
Was no not an ardent Democrat un.
til General Ayers defeated him for
Attorney General in 1885, and did he
not accept Office at the party's hands?
call upon him and his friends to
produce single published utterance
in all his life prior to 1881 in which
he declared himself for protective
tariff. 1t can't be found. He was
an ultra Democrat before the war
and Democratic ofliceholder when.
ever opportunity offered, until lie
met his Waterloo in the good year of
our Lord, 1851. Did he use to be
Democrat for revenue only? Is he
now Republican only for revenue?
FRAUD TALK.
Continuing, the Courier's report
says:
He says that he wants free ballot
and fair count. Where did he get
this7 From William Malone and Pat
McCaull' From Cameron, who said
that the pairing of Mahone's toe nails
were worth more than all the aristo.
cracy of Virginia. Or does he breathe
sentiments Of Ingalls,, Hoar, Reid of
New York and Reed Of Maine and
other wavers OF the bloody shirt9
He said in his speech at Pocahontas,
there were no fair elections in Vir
ginia, and none in tho South. When
did elections in Virginia become un.
fair? Before or since he ceased 10 be
standing candidate for every office
in sight?
He said in the same speech that
the Republicans down South don't
pretend to vote. That they had
cheated Kold in Alabama out of al.
office when he had been elected by
twenty five thousand majority. He
said that he had son down there
who told him all about it. / regret
that he should make mako such n
charge against his own State, and his
son similar one against the State of
his adoption. 'fe
Malone said there were no fair
elections ip the South. He denounc.
ed Malone as liar and slanderer
He now repeats az the trnth the verv