Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-02
Reminiscent General Walker,

Congressman james \ Walker of
the Ninth Virginia District, may be
described rs statesmen whose fu.
ture lies behind him, reminiscent
sort OF character, who has left some
very interesting, though inconsistent
tracks on the sand of politics. One
OF those tracks we have discovered in
the American, new stiapcr in Phil,
delphia, contained iu US ,.-.,ie OF Fob
rnary . 1881, being reply from
General Walker TO some questions it
had sent him. Since those replies
he has changed TO be Mckinley
tariff Republican, and as tue Repub
lican party has chaned in nothing
having only in its presidential term
attempted to pass force bill for the
South, and it's success having only
been prevented by two free silver
Republican senators Ahis replies are
both interesting and amusing. He
says:
The South is solid against the po
litical hercsies and political princi
pals of the Republican party, aud
not against the North as section.
Southern Democrats as well as
Northern Democrats, AFRO opposed to
the centralizing doctrines and ten
denotes of the Republican party,
which would destroy the last vestage
of State rights" and make sover-
eign States no more than counties
The southern people are. and have
always been, opposed to high pro
tectrye tariff. to the uso of the
troops ut the polls, AMI to the sub.
ordination of the civil to the military
power while all these things have
been advocated and upheld by the
Republican party"
10 some of the paragraphs of his
letter the Genera evidently had the
gift of provision of the presidential
campaign of 1896, and Mark Hanna's
millions. He says:
"ion ask me to give you the
opinion of the South upon the best
means of removing the bug bear "a
solid Southl The best and only
means know of to remove the
friShtfnl spectacle of millions of peo.
pie voting their honest and sincere
political principles at the ballot box
is to corrupt them, and by bribery
induce them to vote for policy and
not for principle"
Abont the feeling OF the Repnbli
can party TO the South, the General
has this plain and accurate estimate
to make:
SIT is useless for you to DENY that
II the northern statesmen and the
northern press RON the Republican
aide are the true opponents OF the
Republican feeling. the Republican,
party OF the North hate ives that is
the word) the South and the south
ern people, and bate sown will, like
Ihe dragon teeth, breed Il crop OF
aemed men. The price which the
Republican, party has always fixed as
the equivelant for its ceasing TO per.
secnte the South has been an uncon
ditional surrender of it's Democratic
principles and the adoption of the
Coed of that party. Thauk God. the
Democratic white people of the South
are not for sale, and all the patron
age and all the Establishment of a Re.
publican administration could not
make them prove false to their polit
ical principals.
AS the General is now on a stumn
assisting the election OF Mckinley |
aud the restoration of his tariff-tho |
highest ever known 10 the history of
the country-his Opinion expressed
about the tariff then is not without
interest. He says this;
ITO Democratic administration
we LOOK Tor relief from the onerous