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

plays at the head of its editorial
column the following: ''19O0-FOr
President, w. j. Bryan, of Ne
braska."
Immediately under this inter
esting proclamation is an article
on the business conditions of the
country, in which it says:
"Many factories that closed
down before the election have been
opened and are now running dOu-
ble time i'm order TO fill orders
placed before they closed down,
and many more received while the
men were lying idle waiting for
Mckinley to he elected. But re.
member this, that just as soon as
all back orders have been filed,
forces will have to be reduced or
men work on half time. :"
There YOU have the nomination
and the plan Of campaign in "a nut
shell. Cry down prosperity when
ever any indication of it is seen,
and howl calamity and Bryan.
Then, il hard times continue. or if
we can make the people believe
that hard time are with us in 1900,
Bryan will be the nominee aud a
winneT.-RichmOnd Times.
Bah! The Times is talking
Through its hat as usual. Any one
who reads the contradictory state
meBtS made in the commercial re-
ports and will pause to look III,
the statistics in regard TO some of
the towns where it is reported fhy
telegraph, not by the local paperS)
that thousands of men have gone
10 work, will understand what a
monstrous fake is being imposed
on them.
That proclamation at the head
of the editorial column Of the NEWS
seems To have a deadly fascination
for the Times, and SO far as the
article Immediately following that
''intcresting proclamation" is con
ccrned, we think we had good au-
thOrity for the statements made
therein. But the Times does us
too much honor when il makes the
statements contained in that arti-
Gle the ground work of the "Bryan
Campaign" thereby placing us in
the position TO which it aspired,
and when il failed, caused il TO 20
over bag and baggage to the Re
pnblicans, viz: Dictator 10 the
Democratic party. But there is
one thing the Times can put in its
pipe and smoke, aud that is, that
the Bryan campaign is OH, and
death alone will be able to cheat
William j. Bryan out of the Presi
dental chair four years hence.
The Democratic party has found a
leader of whom it is proud and all
the power that the money lords of
this country (whOm Times serves)
can bring to bear will be power
less to defeat him. The Times
boasts of IFS Democracy, but in the
last SIX months or more there has
not been a single line in it's col
umns that Democrat could recOg-
nlze as being Democratic, and it
is a good thing that the Times
tells its readers every morning
that it is still with the old party
for otherwise no one would be
aware of il. The Times should go
where 1t belongs, as every Demo
crat IN the State is getting sick of
hearing it boast continually of its
democracy, while at the same time
10 rs doing all in its power to dis
rupt the party in the State. We
would call the attention of the
Times to the fact Democrats are
as fond Of "hard cash" as ReDubIi.
cans and inugwumps, and for that
reason, if for 10 other, we will not
'cry down" prosperity when we
see signs OF it. So we would AL.
wise our esteemed cOntemporary
not TO worry over the proclama.
ton at the head of our editorial
column as it has long time to re-
main there unless death should re.
move the man whom, we are proud
10 say, we Supported during the
campaign just closed and are now
ready to stand by until the fight
OF the "Peoplc VS.. Greed and Mo.
nopoiy" is ended four years hence.
As for the Ahowlingn referred TO
above II is not dignified and We
therefore leave it to our distin.
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