Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-06-12
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.


city some weeks since. AS usual,
the Democrats come forward and
face the music and do not RELY on
villitIing their opponents 10 catch
votes, but declair their principles
on all important questions wSth-
out fear or favor, relying on the i'll
telligent voters of the state TO up.
hold their position.
'Tbe Democratic party Of Vir-
ginia, in convention assembly, dc.
clare as follows:
"FirSt-Wc adhere to the prin.
cipl"s Of Democracy as announced
by jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Ma
son AMI The patriots Of their day,
that this is a government Of and
for the people, aud we deprecate
the growing influence Of trusts
and great combinations OF capital.
as dangerous to the welfare of or
people and fraught with disaster
20 our Institutions.
"Second-We are opposed 20
McKinlyism, which proposes to
tax the poor man for the benefits
Of the trusts and CapitaliStS,and
we favor d tariff tax for revinuc
limited to the necessities of an
ccouomiclly administered govern
ment and adjusted so AZ to throw
its burden most lightly upon the
great producing classes of the
country.
"Third-We oppose The Repub-
lican party, because, while profess
inc to protect our laboring men
and mechanics, they are i'm prac-
tice filling their mines and facto
ries with paupcr labor from Eu
rope, foreign to our laws and Ian
guage, and TO Our institutions. We
fNiHt ~ th' law AhHt tudt IldltN /
was the author Of all the arts Of
fiUance legislaefon which Stinulat-
ed the panic and brought on hard /
times TO the country, und that it /
has utterly failed to suggest any
scheme Of relief.
"FOurth-It is the unwritten
law Of this republic. .S.a ,iished 10y
the custom and Gag. of 100
years and Sanct.uu,u hy the ex
ample Of the greatest and wiSeSt
of those who have founded and
maintained our government that
no man should be eligible for a
third term of the presidential of
flee.
"Fifth-We denounc as false
and slanderous the charges made
by Republicans against the Dem
ocrats of AirSinsa as to the rea-
sons which actuated the General
Assembly of the State in submit
ing 10 the people the question Of
holding constitutional conven-
ton. We point TO the public
schools, and the settlement of The
public debt, and to the good will
that exists among all the different
races and sections of the common
wealth as evidence Of the wisdom
of Democratic rule.
"Sixth-We are for sound mon
eY, the SoundeSt that the world
has ever had or can have, the mou-
ely of our constitution, the money
of the people, the money of civil
lzation through the years past and
desteined to be such. as we believe
for ages to come. This sound mon
ey should consist Of silver and
gold, and of paper redeemable in
silver or gOlb at the option of the
payer, the units Of the whole mass
to be. kept at parity by coinage
rights and equal legal tender func-
tiOps, the only metOd by which
the party or the two metals has
been continuously maintained.
"Eighths-We hold to the use
of both gold and silver as the
standard money of the country, and
to the coinage of both gold
and silver, without discriminating
against either metal or charge fer
mintage. The immediate and com
plete restoration of bimetalliSm.
of the money witch existed in the
United States from 1893 to 1873.
is i'll our opinion, demanded by
the Interests Of commerce. manu-.
facture and agriculture, which are