Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-09-11

bpe OF fiat prosperity. born of the
sses OF hard times The McKiu- Ill
Forshipers cherish the delusion II
some mysterious way McKin- Ill
election will cause complete
e of Industrial and commercial 4;
ions. In the current language Y
belief "thc wheels of factories -
ills will begin to turn, cold Chin
I Do'ToU ever hear one of the
advocates Of free silver silver say
he is a Democrat. How proud
they used TO be to say 81 am q
Democrat" Now they have aban-
doned the name and sacrificed ev-
cry conviction they claimed to
hold in the past.-Tazcwell Re
publican.
We arc surprised that the edit
or of the Republican should make
shch statement when he knows
there is not word of truth i'm it.
We do not know of Democrat i'm
Tazcwcll, or, for that matter, in
the United States, who is not
proud to call himself q Democrat.
II the editor of the Republican
doubts the above statement we
would respectfully refer him to the
proceedings Of the Mckinley sido
show at indianapolis, where each
speaker We'd with the other in de-
clarlng himself a Democrat. And
~ for the true blue followers of
MIR. Bryan i'll this county, where
we have had an uphill fight for
years, they are, all the same. proud
OF the grand old party that has
been present ut the funeral obsc
puics OF every party that ever OK.
istcd III this country, and will yet
heap the earth over the grave of
the party that now calls itself the
Republican party. let the editor
Of the Republican publish the
names of few of those Democrats
OF whom he speaks above, thus
proving his statement that ~ hey
have abandoned the name and sac.
rificed every conviction they claim
ed to hold in the past"
OUR gold bug friends in thc
Democratic party seem to forget
one thing while they are calling
Themselves "Jetfcrsono and "Jack.
son" Democrats and denouncinu
Che balance of us as anarchists.
etc. Jefferson, according to his
tory, led the people and the poll
cies which were adopted under his
leadership led to his followers be-
ing called Democrats. The aristo-
cracy of that day-the large plant
eis and other men of means-call
ed him the leader of a mob, and
all the other pleasant names the
millionaires and subsidized press
are calling the Democrats TODAY.
but Mr.. Bryan will, as jefferson
did, lead his mob of anarchists IN
ETC., to a splendid victory in No.
vemher.
Again, these boilers and Nation.
al Bank supporters, who have
adopted the Hickory Tree and
jackson as their emblem, seem to
forget Jackson's record as a Ma.
tiOnal Bank smasher while he wa,
President of the United States.
Jefferson and jackson were al
ways found on the side of America
and her people, and in this fight
were they able to come forth from
their graves they would be found
lighting shoulder to shoulder with
the magnetic western leader of the
Democratic cohorts. To these
same boiling Democrats we wonld
say cast not this slur of treason
on the memory of jefferson and
jackson to Justify your own con,
duct in the eyes of the country
and tighten your conscience of the
crime of tIeachery with which il
is hlackened. Common decepcy
would suggest the taking down OF
those illustrious names aud sub
shutting Arnold in their stead.
WE DESIRE to say for the ben
cht of the papers who have pub
llshcd accounts of the Richmond
and indianapolis boltocrat conven
tons and put Judge j. G.. Hol
brook down as a delegate from
TINS comfy, that they have been
= mISIu fnpuna ~, tO H.