Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-07-17
LETUS REASON TOGETHER.

nant over the Chicago declaration.
Some of che provisions of that decll-
ration are open TO criticism from both
political point of view, and others
are at variance with the time honored
Democratic doctrines. The Dispatch
recognized this fully in its previous
comments on the platform. But now
the smoke of the fight in the conven
ton is clearing away, let MS reason
together soberly upon the platform,
as whole, and consider in it's broad
er light what the contest between
the two parties III November envolves.
AS we said the other day, in the
opening deliverance of the declare.
tior, and underlying the obnoxious
features, is the foundations stone of
the true Democratic faith. Here in
concrete form are the cardinal prin.
cples of Democracy-thei mmutable
principles of tho party-as against
policies which are subject to muta
ton, through the influence of envi
ronments and new conditions. These
principles are summarized in the in
contrOvertible assertion that the
Democratic party has resisted the
tendency of selfish interest towards
the Capitalization of governmental
power, and solidly maintained tho in.
tegrity of the dual rights of govern
ment established by the founders of
this republic and republics; and that,
under ITS guidance aud teaching the
great principle of local self govern.
ment has found its bost expression in
the maintenance of the rights of the
States, and in its assertion of tho ne
cessity OF combining the General Gov
ernn eHt TO the excIci of the DOW
ers granted 10y the Constitution of
the United States.
Under the policies enumerated in
the ut. Louis platTu lies the foam
ddiion stone 81 the Republican party.
That stone was quarried in iniuuiy,
land IN the mlre of corruption, and
consccHatCd Ivy the high priest If
Capitalization, and the Legislative su
per'tructure the party has been
building upon it from and including
tie days of reconstruction 20 the
present time is ceincntod with hatred
o. one great division of tho republic
the South.
When, therefore we co,ae down To
the real, ar umouid is,.scs of the
campaign, they are the same they
have always been. The parties are
arrayed against each each other ON
the same lines upon which they have
always stood, and tn the South. es-
peclally, the maintenance of Demo.
cratic supremacy is as vital as il ever
was. The southern Democrat who
allows the currency, the tariff. or any
other niinor question, or the unwise
policies OF his patty in one car. paign
to obscure the fact that through
Democratic ascen 'aucy alone can he
eXi ct Tins continuance OF local self
government aud white supremacy in
the South makes n great mistake.
The southern Democrat who expects
that should the Republican party a.
gam become entrenched in power it
would not be true 10 its record Az
the enemy of the South in every par
hcular, aud who. Us a CONSEQUENCE.
become lukewarm, invites, however
unwittinglv, not only decentralization
OF the national Democratic uartv. but
demcrhlization of his State ornaniza.
ton, negro supremacy, and the death
OF local seltgOgernmt We repeat,
therefore, let us reason together, fell
low-DeuOeYats, and to The end chat
we may do our full duty to our party,
the republic, and our States. If this
shall be our course, We will lave
nothing to regret in the long rum
Richmond Dispatch.