Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-08
His Course Regarding House
Contests from Virginia
Severely Criticised.
ATTACKS ON cONFEDERATES
q Recent Outrageous One, to
Which the General has Made
no ReS0onse
no Response.


the subject Of quite severe crit
cism 10y VirginianS here, and it is
not particularly agreeable to mem.
oers of his own party. Probably
1t is commended 10y none but those
who VIII be ;he beneficiaries of his
partisan methods.
alt strikes me as very strange -
said n prominent Virginian this
morning, show General Walker. IN
the contested election case of Cor
nett against Swanson, from the
Fifth Virginia District, should
mud that the Walton law is uncon-
stitutiOnal, and endorse a report
to the House declaring the cleo
ton in the district null and void:
but, IN the case of Thorp against
McKenney, from the Fourth Dis
trict, should discover that the
Walton law was good and consti-
tutional enough to elect Thorn and
unseat McKenncy. He is also re
ported to be opposed to Tucker,
and in favor of seating Yost, while
common rumOr says the remainin"
Republican mem bers of tho com
mittee are almost unanimously i'm
favor of Tucker. Consistency is
evidently not one of the Generals
political principles"
General Walker at all times
points with laudahle pride to his
splendid Confederate record, and
he boasts of succeeding the i'm
mortal Jackson as commander of
the StOnewall Brigade. Yet he
sat silently 10y in the Republican
convention, at StauntOn, when the
name of Jackson was Missed. and
the only man to re;ukc the misses
IN deserving terms WAS Mr.. James
Frazier, himself "a Confederate
soldier, and Republican veteran
In Virginia politics, as compared
with General Walker, whose re-
cent ''hop' is fresh in the memor
les of everybody.
The General, however. seems to-
be adopting the same course i'm
Congress that lie adopted at
StanntOn. Not only the name Of
jackson has been aSSailed on the
floor OF the House, hut that of his
widow also, and General Walker
has never said a word i'm vindiea.
ton, or even IN the defence. of
either.
ATTACK ON CONFEDERATES.
On Thursday, April 23d, the
House being in Committee of the
Whole on the State OF the Union.
and having under consideration
the bill relating to pensions, Rep
reSentative Thad. NJ. Mahon. of
pennsylvania, made a speech, in
which lie viciously attacked the
memory and record of many dis
tinguished CORfederates, and Gen
eral Walker did not deem it his
duty to say a word then, nor has
he dcne so since. In the course of
his remarks Mr.. MahOn said.
alt shows beyond all doubt that
the Democrats from the South.
aided by some of their Democratic
colleagues from the North, have
ever since the war been waging a
guerrilla warfare upon the crippled
and enfeebled old soldiers and
their widows. And this contempt
IDLE business is still going on un
der the leadership of President
Cleveland and his "man Friday. -
Hon. Hoke Smith, a gentleman
from the Southland. In the name
of the 1850, 1872 men VIII" OHered
their lives in DIS of the Union.
n Ine name and over the sacred
graves of 304,3G9 gallant men who
went down to death by disease
in the service. and in
he hell of battle, in the name of
he tens of thousands ofloyal Sons
If the North, who were MANY lone
ma weary months confined in An
iersOnvllle, Libby Prison. and 9th.
'r rebel prisons, all veritable hells
IN earth, do most solemnly pro-
est against this cruel taking away
rom our old soldiers the small
pensions given TO them by a crate
al government by the votes of