Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-06-12
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

cnunclated by the Republican con
rention which met in the same
city Some weeks since. AS usual,
the Democrats come forward and
face the music and do not rely on
vIilifling their opponents to catch
votes, but declair their principles
on all important questions wsth-
out fear or favor, relying on the in
telligcnt voters Of the state to I'M:
hold their position.
''Tbc Democratic party of Vir.
ginia, in convention assembly, de-
clare as follows:
"First-Wc adhere to the prin.
clplcs of Democracy as announced
by jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Ma.
son and The patriots OF their day,
that this is II government Of and
for the people, aud we dcprccatc
the growing influence Of trusts
and great combinations of capital.
as dangerous TO the welfare of our
people and fraueht with disaster
TO our institutions.
"Sccond-Wc are opposed TO
Mckinlyism, which proposes to
tax the poor man for the benefits
of the trusts and capitalists, and
we favor d tariff tax Tor revinue
limited to the necessities of an
economically administered govern
mcnt and adjusted so as to throw
its burden most lightly upon the
great producing classes of the
country.
"Third-We oppose the Rrpub.
lican party, because, while profess
ing to protect our laboring men
and mechanics, they are in prac-
ticc filling their mines and facto
rics with paupcr labor from En-
rope, foreign to our laws and Ian
guaSe, and to our institutions. We
poin, to he fact that that party
was the author of all the arts of
firancc lcgislasfon which Stin'ulat-
ed the panic and brought on hard
times 10 the country, und that it
has utterly failed to suggest any
scheme Of relief.
"Fourth-lt is the unwritten
law OF this republic. -s;a ,lishcd bv
the custom and gag. of 100
years and Sanctioned by the cx
ample of the greatest and w;scst
of those who have founded and
maintained our government that
no man should be eligible for a
third term of the presidential OF.
flee.
"Fifth-We dcnounc as false
and slanderous the charges made
by Republicans against the Dem
ocrats OF Airginsa as to the rca,
sons which actuated the General
Assembly of the State in submit
ing to the people the question of
holding Il constitutional conven-
ton. We point to the public
schools, and the settlement of the
public debt, and to the good will
that exists among all the different
races and sections of the common
wealth as evidence of the wisdom
Of Democratic rule.
"SiNth-We are for sound mon
cy, the sOundcst that the world
has ever had or can have. the mon
ey of our constitution, the money
of the people,, the money Of civil
ization through the years past and
destcincd to be such, as we believe
for ages to come. This sound mon
ey should consist Of silver and
gold, and of paper redeemable in
silver or golb at the option of the
payer, the units Of the whole mass
to be. kept at parity by coinage
rights and equal legal tender iunc
TORS, the only mctod by which
the party or the two metals has
been continuously maintained.
"Eighths-We hold to the use
OF both gold and silver as the
standard money Of the country and
to the coinage of both gold
and silver, without discriminating
against either metal or charge for
mintage. The immediate and com.
plete restoration of bimeiallism.
OF the money witch existed i'm the