Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-09-11

prlSlng are driven 10 the wall. Hi
licKinley worshipers refuse TO
TO reason. Their devotion is iii
b nd fanatical iii
truth Is that the blind devotion Hi
kinleyism is founded on u delu- iii
bpe of fiat prosperity. born of the Hi
kses of hard times The McKin- iii
torshipers cherish the delusion iII
b some mysterious way McKin- iii
Election will cause a complete
Ee of industrial and commercial :;
ions In the current language v
belief 1.-The wheels OF factories
ills will begin TO turn, cold Chin
7 10 you ever hear one Of the
advocates Of free silver silver saw
he IL Democrat. How proud
they used TO De to say 81 am q
Democrat" Now they have aban-
dOned the name and sacrificed ev-
cry conviction they claimed to
hold III the past.--Tazewell Re
publican.
We are surprised that the edit
or of the Republican should make
such a statement when he knows
there is not a word of truth i'm il.
We do not know of n Democrat in
Tazewell, or, for that matter. i'm
the United States, who is not
proud TO call himself n Democrat.
If the editor of the Republican
doubts the above statement we
would respectfully refer him to the
proceedings of the Mckinley sido
show at indianapolis, where each
speaker We'd with the other i'm de-
clarlng himself a Democrat. And
AZ for the true blue followers of
Mr.. Bryan in this county, where
we have had an uphill fight for
years, they are, all the same. proud
of the grand old party that has
been present ut the funeral obsc
puies OF every party that ever ex.
iStcd IN this country, and will vet
heap the earth over the grave of
the party that now calls itself the
Republican party. let the editor
Of the Republican publish the
names of few of those Democrats
OF whom he speaks above, thus
proving his statement that "Ihey
have abandoned the name and sac.
riiiced every conviction they claim
ed to hold in the past"
OUR gold bug friends in the
Democratic party seem to forget
one thing while they are calling
themselves jefferson" and "Jack.
son" Democrats and denouncing
che balance of IT'S as anarchists.
etc. Jefferson, according to his
tory, led the people and the poll
cieS which were adopted under his
leadership led to his followers be-
ing called Democrats. The aristo-
cracy of that day-the large plant
eiS and other men of means-caIl
ed him the leader of a mob, and
all the other pleasant names the
mIllionaires and subsidized press
are calling the Democrats today.
but Mr.. Bryan will, as jefferson
did, lead his moo of anarchists ~
etc, to splendid victory in No
VEN Der.
Again, these boilers and Nation.
al Bank supporters, who have
adopted the Hickory Tree and
jackson as their mblem, seem TO
forget JacksOn's record as a Ma.
tional Bank smasher while he wa.
President OF the United States.
Jefferson and jackson we're al.
ways found on the side of America
and her people, and in this fight.
were they able to come forth from
their graves they would be found
lighting shoulder to shoulder with
the magnetic western leader ofthe
DcmOcratlc cohorts. To these
same boiling Democrats we would
say cast not this slur of treason
on the memory of Jefferson and
l jackson to Justify your own con.
duct in the eyes of the country
and Tighten your conscience of the
crime nf f,aachorr x-;sl -,
q is blackened. Common decency
+ would suggest the taking down OF
r those illustrious names aud sub
: shutting Arnold in their stead.
+ WE DESIRE TO say for the ben
l eft of the papers who have pub
ilshcd accounts Of the Richmond
and indianapolis boltocrat conven