Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-09

publican as a witness to the trutl
OF our statement that promise,
were made by aud i'm behalf OF
Gen. Walker aud not one has vet
been fulfilled.
Our neighbor, the farewell Re
publican. denounces Mr.. Sewall this
week for Inconsistency in making
charter contract in gold, but if ne i
inconsistent what is 10 be said of the
Republican, when it makes an adver
Using contract, which reads Payable
Ia Silver Coin-CL.NcH VALLEY News
In the FIRST place we would like to
know how the News knows we have
made contract payable in silver
COIN. If we did, however in what
kind OF silver coin is it payabl. ?
Certainly not In coin under a free
Unlimited coinage law for individ.
uals- The silver we have contracted
for is as good as gold, because it is
based upon gold 1t is not the mon
ey OF Jno. Smith or Bill Jones or
Sam Brown who bad their silver bull
hon coined at the government mint
free OF cost. Oh no, IT is the gov
ernmen''s money, coined from bull
hon purchased by the government,
upon the coinage of which the gov
erDment of the people has realized "A
profit, and which the faith OF the
government is pledged to make as
good as gold. We are glad the
News has raised this question. 1t
gives the lie most conclusiyelv TO the
campaign falsehood so ;udustriouslv
circulated by the Bryanites that the
Republicans were for doing away
with all money but gold. We would
like to make any humber of con
tracts payable in the present silver
money. but hope we will never be
fore d to make one pavble in the de
preclated free coinage of silver dol
lar that the News is advocating
against its honest convictions. no
doubt. The News man is more oh.
fuse than we thought him, or he new.
er would have published it to the
world that a Republican paper is
willing to make contracts payable in
silver mouey.-Tazewell Republican.
We really had no idea that the
editor of the Republican would so
display his ignorance as to make the
statement in more than one article
In one issue that silver is redeemable
orbased on gold. But it seems as if he
Will try to make people believe such
stoff whether they will or not. The
coin, the contract, above referred to
was made in, was the same wa will
have under free coinage of silver, and
you cannot destroy the value Of the
silver dollar just by saying it will on.
~ be worth 53 cents. So long as the
silver dollar is stamped by the Unit
d States, so long will it continue
to be worth one hundred cents: As
to the Republican party not being
IN favor of the doing away with sill
yer money we have only to call the
attention of our readers to the fol.
lowing extract from the Republican
platform adopted at st. Louis, and
we would advise the editor of the
Republican to read it carefully so as
not to be fooled into making any
more such statements as is contain
ed in the above article:
Money-The Republican party is
unreservedly for sound money. IT
caused the enactment Of the law pro
vlding for the resumption of specie
payments in 1879. Since then every
dollar has been as good as gold. We
are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are, therefore. oppos
cd to the free coinage of silver ex.
cept by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations of
the world, which we pledge oursel
yes to promote, and until such agree
ment can be obtained the existing
gold standard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency
must be maintained at parity with
gold, and we favor all measures de.
signed to maintain inviolably the
obligations of the United States and
our money, whether coin or paper, at
the present standard the standard
OF the most enlightened nations of
the world.
The News man may be obtuse,
but the editor of the Tazewell Re.
publican is the last man to call in
question the sincerity of our, or for
that matter, anyone else's politics
THE nTCNOVERV GAVIN rrre,