Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-01

thciI IONc iOT tnciT OtaCe anu tile
"poor illiteratesD as they are pleas
ed to term them.
If the poor man will get q copy
OF Grams Atlas, and read the
platforms of the various political
parties that have risen up since
the birth of the United States they
can easily see what the Dem0rf4ts-
ic party has done in his behalf,
and no more will Republican dem.
agogues be able to gull them with
such talk as the above. 1t was the
Democratic party that gave the
poor man the right of suffrage
and it is not probable that the
sam,e party would take that right
from him.
AS to the reforms the Hepubli.
can party would mako i'm the
laws If they had chance we re-
fer you to their action in Mary
land. Before the siection last fall
they pledged themselves to change
the election laws of that State.
How did they redeem their
pledgesf Did they make any re-
forms! Yes, they turned out Dem
Ocratic election officers and put
Republicans in their place. The
same may be expected in Virginia
should that party ever gain con-
troll of our State government. How
did they carry Gut their pledges
in Maryland in regard to other
officersi They reformed the
"abnse' as they called it by ap.
pointing Republicans to fill the
place of Democrats. Yes, indeed,
they are party Of reformers-
"Thc Republican party of vir.
GINA in convention assembled
proud of the possession of the
cOterie of eminent statesmen whose
names arc before tile country in
connection With the nomination
for President of the United States
10y the comiig national Republican
convention at st. Louis, cannot re.
frain from expressing its prefer
encc for the domination of the idel
Of the American workingmen, the
hope of our business and agricul-
tural classes: the pioneer of prom
ised prosperity, William Mckinley,
of Ohio; and we Instruct the dele
gates elected by this convention to
vote for him as long az there is
any prospect for liis nomination
and thereby express the love of
tho Virginia mother for her Ohio
child"
What qualifications does Mr..
Mckinley possess for the high Of
fee to which the Republicans
would call hime The following
from Harper's Weekly would indi
cate why there is such n clamor
for Mckinley:
"Hls election to the Governor:
ship was ample recorHpense for the
stings accustomed by tire loss OF
his seat in Congress-, so that there
is no reason for his nomination for
the Presidency except that which
led to his appointment as chair
man Of the Ways and Means Com.
mittee.' That reason is, as we
have already explained, that Mr..
Mckinley will do whatever is COM
mandcd by the men who insist on
having the right to tax the people
of the United States for their own
profit. In other words, he is the
chief of the sect of extreme pro.
tectionists who believe that an
Americans ought to pay high
prices for the necessaries' OF fife In
order that few Americans NAV
gain riches by manufacturing
them, and that to this end it is
right and constitutional to levy
taxes directly for the benefit OF
private citizens, making the pub.
lie revenue secondary or Incl.
dental consideration. Ffe is the
chief politician of this Sect. not be-
cause he is a great econOmist-he
has not even an ordinary acquaint
ance with the snbject-not because
he originates ideas, or on his own
initiative develops and stimulates
protective legislation, but simp
and solely because Ire is willing to
take orders from certain manufac
turers who Know what they want,
and who are willing to pay large
sums Of money to secure political
agent who will turn over to them
the taxing power, to do with it as
they will"