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

LET US REASON TOGETHER.
We have no quarrel with fellow
Democrats who have waxed indig-
nant over the Chicago declaration.
Some of the provisions of that decla-
ration are open TO criticism from both
a political point of view, and others
are ut variance with the time honored
Democratic doctrines. The Dispatch
recognized this fully i'll its previous
comments on the platform. But now
the smoke OF the fight in the couven
ton is clearing away, let us reason
together soberly upon the platform,
AZ whole, and consider in it's broad
er light what the contest between
the two parties i'll November cnvolves.
AS we said the other day, i'll the
opening deliverance of the declara.
ton, and underlying the obnoxious
features, is the founlation-stone of
the true Democratic faith. Here in
concrete form are the cardinal prin-
cples OF Democrpcy--the immutable
principles of tho party-as against
policies which are subject to muta
ton, through the influence of ouvi.
ronments and new conditions. These
principles are summarized in the in.
coutrOvertible 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 it's guidance aud teaching the
great principle of local self govern.
menS has found its bost expression in
the maintenance of the rights of tho
States, and III its assertion OF tho ne.
cessity of combining the General Gov.
ernn ent TO the exercise of the pow
ers granted by tho Constitution of
the United States.
Under the policies enumerated in
the sit' Louis platform lies the fu, II.
ddlion stone Ui tho Republican party.
That stono was quarrie,l III in,ouiiy,
land IN TIA" mlrc Of corruption, and
consr:ratcd hy the high priest of
Capitalization, and the Legislative 81
per'trncture the party has been
building upon it from and including
tle days of reconstruction to the
present ;in.o is celncntcd with hatred
o. one great division of the i, public
tho South
When, therefore. we cu,nc down to
the real, ar .mouih ,s,.es of the
campaign, they are tho snme they
have always been. The parties arc
airayed against each each other on
the same lines upon which they have
almays stool, and To tho South, CO
peclally, the maintenance of Demo,
cratic supremacy is as vital as it eyer
was. The southern ID. nocrnt who
allows the currency, the iariil, or any
other MINOR question, or the unwise
policies OF his pity in one car. paign
to obscure the fact that through
Democratic ascen 'nucy alone can he
eX, CT this continuance of local self
government aud white supremacy in
the South makes II great mistake.
Tho southern Democrat who expects
that should the Republican party A.
gam become entronchcd i'll power it
would not be true to its record as
the enemy Of the South in every nar
6cular, aud who. rs consequence,
become lukewarm, invites, however
unwittin9ly, not only decentralization
OF the national Democratic party. bnt
Generalization of his State organiza-
lion, negro supremacy, and The death
OF local self.govornm.nt. We repeat,
therefore, lot us reason together, fel.
low-Democra!s, and to The end that
we may Ito our full duty to our party,
the republic, aud our States. Ii this
shall be our course, We will have
nothing to regret in the long rum
Richmond Dispa' cb.
Harriet Beecher Stoves Last
attain