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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

THE light question has been re-
ferred by the Board to a special
committee. The committee might
very properly decide that the light
company should furnish light, or
get out of the way of some company
that will. Columbia wants light all
the time not one-third or one-half
the time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

THE unofficial list prepared by the
Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives shows the next House will be
composed of 2O4 Republicans, 124
Democrats, 103 Fusionists, II Popu-
lists and ID Silverites.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

THE strictly cash system is grow
ing in favor in Columbia and next
year will find new names in that
list. 1t is the only safe way to do
business under present conditions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

NOT satisfied with the glaring
frauds perpetrated in the tenth dis
trict, Mr.. Patterson proposes-if he
can-to heap insult upon injury by
fraudulently unseating the man the
people have elected. This is one
way the Palmerites and McKin-
leyite will have of "disciplining'
the South.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

MCKINLEY prosperity has reached
Kentucky. The railroad shops at
Paducah have cut down their force
and relieved forty meh from work.
Great is the gold standard!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

THE business failures continue to
multiply and increase over the
country. If we would we could de-
vote solid page every week to COM
mercial failures, but that would be
treason to the business interests,
don't you know; it might "agitate''
the people.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

Your Uncle Josiah has fully and
finally determined to plead the baby
act, and has served formal notice ac-
cOrdingly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

The free silver craze continues to
die some more and the advance
agent of prosperity is still advancing
the price of his dollars.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04
Two of Them.

Willie Slimson-I put a pin in the
teachers chair this morning, and he
was wild.
Bobby Smitem-Well, he won't sit
down in such hurry again.
Willie SlimsOn-NO; neither will /
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04
Holiday Goods.

We have the most attractive line
of holiday goods, fine lamps, ele-
CANT mirrors, beautiful cut glass,
and everything in china. Come
and see. DoBBINs & EWING
dec4-2t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

OUR esteemed contemporary the
Nashville Sun serves notice on the
lobby that it must make itself scarce
around and about the State building
this winter. Does the Suns refer
ence have any allusion to the Cen
teDnial lobby? Certainly il must,
else it overlooks the biggest lobby
most brazen, unwarranted, mex.
cusable lobby, of all the disgraceful
adventures that ever attempted to
raid a public treasury. If the Sun
means to fight the railroad lobby
while it excuses or condones the
Centennial lobby, then the Sun ii
paradlng its morals for partisan pur.
poses; but if the Sun means to fighr
the lobby, whoever they may be Of
whatever their scheme, then We
give it God speed as the peoples
champion and a friend in need.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

BEFORE making your Christmas
purchases, the economical thing to
do is to study the columns of the
HERALD. The merchants who adj
vertise in the HERALD are the live
up-to-date reliable men of affairs
who know how to buy and how to
sell, and whom you can trust.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

A MAN who would stand by and
see big boy beat up little baby,
would be considered an arrant
coward or cruel monster himself.
Why should not the rule apply to
nations? Why should not this Ma
ton stop the massacre of men,
women and children in Cuba? Why
should powerful christian people
stand still and see men murdered
and women outraged, their next
door neighbors, and never say stop
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

Poor bleeding Cuba. Oh for that
christian charity that would cry
less and help more.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

MR.. BYNUM proposes, as a name
for the decoy ducks in 1900, the
democratic Republican Party"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

ARMOUR, the Memphis pOstmas-
ter, has been indicted for embezzle-
ment.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

Mrs. J. F. Warfield's premium
biscuit at the fair were made from
AshtOn's Best. If
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04
F. D. LANDER. Editor.

CHRISTMAS time is coming. First
pay your debts, then give.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

THE Vulture of Hard Times man.
ages to keep just little ahead of
the Advance Agent of Prosperity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04
Don't Buy,

Before you see our wedding presents
and holiday goods. JAMES BROS.
IL
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04

THE incandescent lights are out
again; they are on another bust.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-04
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20
SOWING THE WIND.

Evidently the campaign cant of the
successful party is TO be kept up in.
definitely. Every citiziu who believes
In the restoration of silver to its
10 mer place in the currency is still
to be classified as repudiator and
enemy of the national honor; every
citlzln who ventures to hold a dis.
approving opinion of decision of
the Supreme Court is to. continue an
Anarchist; every citizin who thinks
that government bp Injunction is an
innovation dangerous to liberty, is 10
Ienaiu an advocate of free riot.
What insufferable humbug all this
Is! The men who utter it don't be.
lleve 1t, but they expect to make
others less Intelligent than them.
selves do so, and hereafter get their
votes through false pretence for the
conservation of abuses and the pro
lection of the privileges of the dreda
tory rich.
The scheme mas worked well this
year, but to persist in it as a perma
nent policy is shor sited. The six
million citixins who voted for BRYAN.
bimetallism and democratic govern.
ment ee quite as intelligent ae the
millions who voted for Mckinley.
the single gold standard and govern.
ment by the allied financial interest
OF the country. In the matter of
patriotism, of regard for the nation
al honor, we will back the AVERAGE
Democratic voter against the aver.
age trust millionaire any day. To
deny intelligence and patriotism TO
nearly half the citizins of the United
States, as the good press did before
the election, and as it is doing onw
when the election is past, will not
advantage the perry in whose behalf
this preposterous insult is offered
The common sense of all good is
forced into revolt, and in those vrho
are the subjects of the insult q re
sentiment is inspired which intepsi.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20
The Next LEGISLATURE

We gather from the Fredericks.
burg Free Lance that at the election
on the Sd instant the Democrats car
ried sixty five of the 100 House of
Delegates districts and the opposi-
ton carried 35. OF the twenty one
senatorial dis riots in which there
Will be vacancies next year, She
Democrats earaied fifteen and the
opposition carried six. OF the nine
teen holdover senators eighteen are
Democrats and one opposition; there
fore (iays the Free Lance, which we
are still quoting), had the election
been held for members of Leoisla.
ture, there would have been in that
body ninety-eight Democrats and
forty-two opposition, a Democratic
majority GU joint ballot OF fifty six.
sin order to retain a majority ON
joint ballot next year the Democrats
viii have to elect only fifty. three
senators aud delegates, while the
opposition would have to elect sew
enty. And in this connection it NAV
be mentioned this senatorial district
composer of Louisa, Spotsylvanio
Stafford, andFredericssburg gave a
Redubican majority"
So IT appears that to control the
next Legislature on joint ballot "ths
Dsmocrots would have to elect only
nifty tbreo senators and delegates
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20
CURE FOR HEADACHE.

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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20

be elected. But be was sly one. aud
Gid around IN quiet way during
The canvass, getting in his word 'un-
beknownst" to lhe cultured aristoc-
racy az 'SThe Hub" They regarded
his candidacy With smile of super
ciliOus amusement His proper
place., they thought, was to polish
boots for the polished Athenians.
But he showed them trick worth
two Of that. For Qua part we hope
him much satisfaction and delecta
ton in bis new duties. Let the Col
onel get as close to the Governor
as possible; cheek by iowl with bis
Excellency. Why noti If the col.
ored brother is good enough fer the
Massachusetts people to thrust into
the politics of the South he is good
enough to thrust himself into the
Governor Council of Massachusetts
IL they can make a goose of ms they
can make gander of themselves;
tue same sauce vii! dc for both. We
are much pleased and hope our cod
fish friends and the Colonel much
joy.-Lynchburg Advance.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20
900.
GRovER CLEVELAND seems not

GROVER CLEVELAND seems not
to have lost any of his courage
since the day he hired a subSti.
tnte to fight his battles in the late
civil war. The spirit of coward
ice that controlled his actions then
now keeps his hands tied and he
sits quietly in his private Office at
Washington and, perhaps, with p
smile on his face, hears the tick
ing of the wires as they announce
daily fresh outrages on the per
sons and property of our country
men in Cuba. The foreign policy
of the present administration as
we'll as it's financial policy, is u
disgrace and the party that elect
ed Cleveland covered itself with
glory when it repudiated lin in
its convention at Chicago. 1t
would seem that few acres of
marShy land in Venezuela amount
ed TO more i'm the eyes of the Pres
ident of the United States and his
advisers than the lives of our
cOuntrymen in Cuba and our own
possessions in Alaska, where, il is
reported, the British have driven
American miners from their claims
and have taken possession thereof
themsel' eS. But thank God the
day is approaching, when, we be.
lieve, these things will be rene
died. Though we may differ with
Maj. Mckinley as to tariff and fl
nances, we know him to have been
a brave soldier, who rose from the
ranks to the grade of major, and
we have confidence enough in him
TO believe that he will put a stop
to the butchery of our people by
Spanish soldiers as well as stop
the entertainments of the British
III Alaska.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20


Several of the original thirteen
States had Counsils os State or Gov
ernor's Couusils, being an appendage
that Imputed a touch or ting of
atty to the function of chief execu
tive of the commonwealth. OF
course Virginia and Massachusetts.
the leaf ing commonwealth in the
early Gays, had these Councils
Massachusetts still has hers; and
North Carolina also still a,lheres to
the somewhat royal ceremony. Viz
ginia parted parted with her Govern
nor's Council upon the adoption of
Constitution of 1S5O.51
But Massachusetts continues an
nually to elect Governors Couu-
eli at the same that she elects ber
Governor for, strange to say, they
elect the Governor once year up
there In the Bay State. A huge
night mare has fallen like a canopv
OF despair upon the good people of
that ancient commonwealth. When
theballols were counted in Boston
on the night of the third of Novem.
Der it was found that Colonel LIB.
AL en-, notorious negro whose name
he's on multitudinoue occasions al.
orned the docket of the wolice ccurt
was found to be elected as a member
OF the Governofnor's Council Hor
ror oil horrors! This was to be sure
social scandal of the first magni.
tude to the cod fish aristocracy of
the Athens OF America. What is il
to be done bout it? Nothing what
ever can be done but TO have a cusb
ioued chair ready for Colonel Allen.
Just at the Governors elbow. so that
the ebony member may mite with
DIS associates on the council board
in making timely suggestions to his
Excsllency cpon intricate points of
public policy and deep questions of
State craft
There is stupen1ous stir in Bos
tons uppertendum over the horrible
business They are raising all sorts
OF question: of technical irregularitv
In tue ballots SO as to count the
Colonel out. 1t seems that it was
never expected that be would really
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20


GROVER CLEVELAND, President
of the United States of America.
has set apar next Thursday, No
vember %, 1896, as day of
thanksgiving and praise to God.
lie says the people of this country
should give special thanks on ac.
count OF the defeat Of the political
party that has twice made him
President of the United States
and put it in his power to temper
arlly wreck that party, and also,
we expect, he thinks the people of
this country, who wearing rags be-
cause they have not the. means to
purchase bread let alone clothes.
and the citizens Of the United
States who lie rotting in Spanish
prisons, should give thanks be.
cause of the vindication of his adj
mlnlstTatiOn by the Republican
party after his own party had re-
pudiated him. All truo citizens of
the United States have cause to
give thanks next Thursday, but
not on account of the defeat Ofour
gallant standard bearer, William
j. Bryan, but for the reason that
we are to have but "three more
months of GroYer.D
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20
Carried BY "Foreiqners.

The New York fost declares that
the late election was saved to the
'honest money cause by the votes
of our foreign born element, aud tl at
wherever the native American popu
lation predominates there the free
silver craze was brrziest, "while the
largely foreign born North went ov.
erwhelmingly right'-for the gold
standard.
In the following way the Post
proves its proposition. We quote:
The whites have amorg h IN on
Iy about per cent. of the people Of
foreign parentage in North Carolina,
between 3 and in South Carolina.
Georgia and Tennessee, and between
aud in Virginia, Alabama, Miss.
ippi aud Arkansas, about Is in Flori
Ola, 10 in Texas, and 90 in Louisiana
In the section as n whole tho foreign
vote is very small, and in no one Of
these last three has it ever been a
controlling element"
Again tbs Post saws:
In New England persons of for
eign parentage constitute from about
% per cent. of population in Maine
to So in Massachusetts aud 90 in
Rhode Island, in New York about
81, New Jersey so and PENNSYLVANIA
81, about 80 per cent. in Ohio, Al
Ii Iowa, so in Illinois. 55 in Mich
gan, 81 In South Dakota, "a in Wis
consin, as in Minnesota and 20 in
Mort Dakota.
In this way, as the New York
World is plensed to say, 1.-The Post
dc monstrates that the ignorant for
eign vote rolled up the honest mon
money majorities, almost saved Ne.
braska and made up the largest part
~ VIZ ONSl WhCiiuCu inlllOIlIleS IN
kunsas and Missouri. the foreign
metropolis of Missouri went for
sound money by large majoritie.
1t was the native Americans who car.
red the State the wrong way"
This is remarkable utterance by
one of the principe organs cf the an
II silver cause; and, if true, it SHOULD
give us pause" 1t is consideration
that should occasion alarm on the
part of the interest that rule us TINT
their victories over the people are
game in the North by the ballots of
foreign born citizins cas- in the in
terest of foreign money.changers.
and that in the South the only sup
port the honest money cause has is
the support of mass of ignorant
negroes aud gew scattering
whites who have their own individ
ual interests and not the welfare of
the country at heart.-Richmond
State.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20

while sbe opposition would have to
elect seventy And this statement,
remember, comes from paper which
tries TO be independeI t in politics,
though we think it has Republican
leaniOgs.
So it would appear that the Dem
ocratic position in Virginia is well
nigh impregnable. The city of Rich
tnond and Henrico alone will elect
two senrtors and six delegates next
f"ll, and all of these, we may safely
promise, will be Democrats. But we
may expect to do much better
throughout the State next year than
we have done this year Hanna, we
suspect, has not yet done wonder.
ing what became of the 100000
what he sent toVirginia during the
recent campaign and notwithstand
ing the handsome eulogium that he
recently received from the Redmond
Times, we doubt if he will bother
with Virginia politics next year.
Nor will the big corporations and
big manufacturers be bonde against
Us in 1897 as they were this year.
Nor will the majority of the gold
Democrats think it desirable to con
tinde their fight as they have been
advised by 1.-The Sound money
League of Richmond to do.
In short, nothing but a volcanic
eruption. in politics, so to speak, car
prevent the Democratic party from
controlling the next Virginia Legis.
lature. But there are Governor,
a Lieutenant Governor. and an At
torney-General to elect. too? Yes;
bat, as we have srid, and for the rea.
sons stated, we think that the Dem
ocrats will be a0le TO do better on
the State ticket next year than they
Hid this year. 1t is usually easie,
for us to get large majority in a
State election than in the Preisden.
tial election, aud we have the assur.
ance of many Democrats who left
us one the currency question that
they will return to us in the coming
election, and this Notwithstanding
the fact that the next Legislature
elects United States Senator. But
our friends understand we'll that
Major Daniels term in the Senate
does not expire until March 4. 1899.
and from their point of view they OK
Pect the currency question to be set.
tied long before that day.
We conclude, therefore, that it
seems to be a political impossibility
for the Democratic party of Virginia
to fail to control the next Legisla
ture upon joint ballot And we also
hold that it is exceedingly unlikely
that Hanna will trouble himself to
raise money to send to Virginia
mtrely to Influence the election of
Governor, Lieutenant-G Governor. and
Attorney General Richmond Dis
patch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20

hes their loyalty to their political
convictions. To inhame anger and
deepen rancor in our politics ap.
pears to be the settled purpose Of
the Republican party.
No one who knows the people of
the United States doubts that the
masses vote according to their view
OF what Is right. The average citi-
ecu who supported Mckinley did so
in the belief that it would be- better
for the Republic to have him Instead
OF Bryan in the White House. But
nobody believes that the millionairs
the MOrgaus, the Pullmans, the
Huutingtons and the Carneeies-
who rush as one man 10 the aid of
Mckinley. were animated by M self
ish motives. With the aid of mil
lionairs and the trust the Republi-
can candidate would not have deem
elected. This is not to b. denied
Neither is it to be denied that the
millionnirs and trust regard the vic
tory as their own, nor that they will
be controlling Influential in shaping
the policy of the new Admin trstion.
That these men in fighting for the
maintenance of the gold standard
and for the defeat of Bryan, who
hnd declared wal On the trust, were
keenly alive to their financial stake
III the contest, is as clear as that
they have been made happy by the
result. 1t is easy to understand that
men should think only of their own
pockets when they go into yolitics
Ii they are cynically frank about it
they excite more contempt than in
dignation. But when such men add
hypocrisy to sordid sel6sLuess and
proclaim that their devotion to their
pockets is in reality devo ion to their
country's welfare and the nations
honor the rouse the impatient scoru
of honest people. And when these
pocket patriots denounce all who
oppose them for the sake of ecm-
mon good as less disinterested. less
honorable, less patriotic than them
selves, they make "A demand on the
patience of honest men that is
trifile too heavy. There are "A few
citizens who care to listen to lectures
on morals and patriotism from
Carnegie, Huntington or a Pull
man. Yet it is persons of this class,
who stand for nothing but greed.
that dominate to day tho political
partywhich has the nerve to deny to
the Democratic masses e the Unit
ed States the possession of patriot
ism and common honesty.
If the gold standard were good
for the puplc the millionaire and
trusts would not be it's foremost
champions, and if it could be defen-
ded by arguments that would con
vince the thoughtful anb impartial
it's advocates would nvt need To deal
exclusively in insults to their oppo
nents. The gold standard is fraud.
1t taxes the many who have little
for the benefit Of the few who have
much, That is why ahose who profit
by it are impelled to employ cries
instead of reasons for its preserva
ton. The in suit will be answered
in due time by letter instructed
people.-N Y. Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20

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According to the official vote of
West Virginia McKinley's majority
in that State is IL lOI.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20

MeSsrS w. A. Ward and II. A.
White, of Paint Lick, were in the
city court day.
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