Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-07
JUDGE HUGHES F0R BRYAN.

of the ableSt and best known Re
puelicans in the State, announces
his determination to support Bryan
and Scwall. In the course of a
long letter in the Fredericksburg
Free Lance, lie says;
The proceedings at Chicago were
phenomenal; but grew naturally
and necessarily ont of the radical
and revolutionary policy of god
money only, which WAS secretly.
stcalthily and without the popular
knowledge or consent, instituted
by the gold class in 1878; and has
been qnitely, diligently, and re.
morsclcssly enforced ever SINCE
1t has produced an all pervadimg
indignation among all classes of
our people save one. 1t has sown
some of the seeds of communism
i'll our Republic, which has hereto.
fore been free from the ahOmina.
tlon. The growth of communIsm
on this side of the Atlantic would
he disastrous in the extreme, and
humlllating IN the last degree to
our pride of country. have no
fear that the candidates nominated
at Chicago will sympathize in any
degree with ally insipient mani.
festatlons of communist anger
which may have found expression
at Chicago.
The policy of no money but gold
has parnlized our industries, de.
preciate,f all property values, un.
dcrmined wages and spread dis
tross anil dependency broadcast
over the land. The people are
everywhere indignant to an extent
not dreamed Of by the class which
put This bancIul policy upon the
country, or by the newspapers, pol.
iticians, small dealers and petty
bankers, who are indus.riously
preaching up the iniqnitous policy
in our cities and towns. These va.
rious agents Of the gold class have
separated themselves from all re
cations 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-
vtntion was a surprise to these
strangers to the popular sentiment.
H. election iii November will he n
great surprise. The gold policy
will he voted ont Of existence by Il
majority never before known in
Presidential elections.
The people at large are consid.
cring the money question and that
only. The members OF the Chicago
convention who represented the
genuine American sentiment in
that body, know little and care less
about communism. They will re.
pndlatc 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 nrt
OF part in putting it in force in this
country. They will go no farther
Radical and revolutionary meas.
nres like that Of no money but
gold invariably promote counter
measures, more or less similar
The adagc says, that the devil
must be fought with his own fire.
have been Republican on old
and now obsolete party questions
but all past issues are lost in the
Intense feeling that has been en-
gendered by the radical and reyo
lntionary legislation of 1873. The
election of 1896 will be an over
whelming reputation and rebuke
OF a legislation that has been SC
destructive to American interests
OF every name and so humiliatine
to our national pride.s -
America, the United States in
large part, produces nearly all the
silver in the world. That metal
BY our fatus characterization of il
commands price only as merchan.
disc. Like wheat and cotton its
dollar becomes, as bullion the fifty
cents dollar just as wheat becomes
sixty cents wheat and cotton seven