Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-07
JUDGE HUGHES FOR BRYAN.

puslicanS in the State, announces
his determination to support Bryan
and Sewall. In the course of a
long letter in the Fredericksburg
Free Lance, he says;
The proceedings at Chicago were
phenomenal; but grew naturally
and necessarily ont of tire radical
and revolutionary policy of god
money only, which WAS secretly.
stealthily and without the popular
knowledge or consent, instituted
by the gold class i'm 1878; and has
been qnitely, diligently, and re
mOrSclesSly enforced ever since
1t has produced an all pervading
indignation among all classes of
our people save one. 1t has sown
some of the seeds of communism
in our Repnblic, which has hereto
fore been free from the ahOmina-
tion. The growth of communism
on this side of the Atlantic would
6e disastrous i'm the extreme, and
Illuminating IN the last degree to
our pride Of country. | have no
fear that the candidates nominated
at Chicago will sympathize i'm any
degree with ahy insipient mani.
festatiOnS of communist anger
which may have found expression
at Chicago.
The policy of no money but gold
has parHlized our Industries. de
preciated all property values, un-
dermined wages and spread dis
tross and dependency broadcast
over the land. The people are
everywhere indignant to an extent
not dreamed Of by the class which
put This baneful policy upon the
country, or hy the newspapers. pol.
lticianS, small dealers and petty
bankers, who are indus.riouslv
preaching up the iniqHitous policy
IN our cities and towns. These va.
rious agents Of the gold class have
separated themselves from all re
Iations with the voting masses of
the country and arc entirely out of
rapport with the popular thought
and feeling.
The action of the Chicago con
V'ntlon was a surprise to these
strangers to the popular sentiment.
t. election in November will be
great surprise. The gold policy
will be voted ont of existence bv q
majority never before known in
Presidential elections.
The people at large are cousid,
erIng the money question and that
only. The members octhe Chicago
convention who represented the
genuine American sentiment in
that body, know little and care less
about communism. They will re
pndiate any communistic interpret.
alton of their platform. Their ob
Ject was to pronounce anathema
maranatha upon the policy of gold
money only, and to give the cold
shoulder to all who have had ort
OF part in putting it in force in this
country. They will go no farther.
Radical and revolutionary meas
ures like that Of no money but
gold invariably promote counter
measures, more or less similar
The adage says, that the devil
must be fought with his own fire.
have been a Republican on old
and now obsolete party questions
bat all past issues are lost in the
Intense feeling that has been en-
gendered by the radical and revo
lutionary legislation of 1873. The
election of 1896 will be an over
whelming reputation and rebuke
of legislation that has been so
destructive to American interests
Of every name and so humiliatine
to our national pride.s 49,
America, the United States in
large part, produces nearly all the
silver in the world. That metal
by our fatus demonetization of it
commands price only as merchan-
disc. Like wheat and cotton it's
dollar becomes, as bullion the fifty
cents dollar just as wheat becomes
SIXTY cents wheat and cotton seven
cents cotton. And yet there are
Americans ignorant and silly
enough to Snppr AZ thn diminished