Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-01


bOmbastic and pie overcome
their love for their State and the
''poOr illiteratesr as they are pleas
ed to term them.
Ii the poor man will get q copy
OF Grams Atlas, and read the
platforms of the various political
parties that have risen up since
the birth of the United States they
can easily soc what the DemOrfltt
ic party has done in his behalf,
and no more will Republican dem
agosues be able to gull them with
such talk as the above. 1t was the
Democratic party that gave the
poor man the right of suffrage
and it is not probable that the
SAME party would take that right
/ from him.
AS to the reforms the Republi-
can party would make i'm the
laws If they had a chance we re-
fer yOu TO their action in MARY
land. Before the election last fall
they pledged themselves to change
the election laws Of that State.
How did they redeem their
pledgesf Did they make any re-
fOrmsg Yes, they turned out Dem
Ocratic election officers and put
Republicans i'm their place. The
same may be expected in Virginia
should that party ever gain con-
troll of our State government. How
did they carry Gut their pledges
in Maryland in regard to other
officersi They reformed the
"abuse' as they called it by APP
pointing Republicans TO fill the
place of Democrats. Yes, indeed,
they are a party Of reformers-
''The Republican party Of Vir.
ginia in convention assembled
proud of the possession of the
cOterie of eminent statesmen whose
names are before tile country i'm
connection with the nomination
for President of the United States
Uy the cOnIing national Republican
convention at st. Louis, cannot re-
frain from expressing its prefer
encc for the domination of the ieleI
of the American wOrkingmen, the
hope Of our business and agricul-
tural classes: the pioneer of prom
Used prosperity, William Mckinley,
of Ohio; and we Instruct the dele
gates elected by this convention to
vote for him as long as there is
any prospect for his nomination
and thereby express the love of
tho Virgins mother for her Ohio
clfiid.|
What qualifications does Mr..
Mckinley possess for the high of
flee to which the Republicans
would call himg The following
from Harper's Weekly would indi
cate why there is such a clamor
for Mckinley:
"HIs election to the Governor
ship was ample recompense for the
stings accustomed by tire loss Of
his seat in Congress, so that there
is no reason for his nomination for
the Presidency except that which
led To his appointment as chair.
man of the Ways and Means Com
mittee. That reason is, as we
have already explained, that Mr..
Mckinley will do whatever is com
mandcd by the men who insist on
having the right to tax the people
of the United States for their own
profit. In other words, he is the
chief of the sect of extreme pro
tectiOnists who believe that all
Americans ought to pay high
prices for the necessaries' OF life I'm
order that few Americans NAV
gain riches by manufacturing
them, and that to this end it is
right and constitutional TO levy
taxes directly for the benefit of
private citizens, making the pub
Inc revenue a secondary or incl
dental consideration. Pke is the
chief politician of this sect, not be-
cause he is great econOmist-he
has not even AN ordinary acquaint
ance with the subject-not because
he or ginates idess, or on his own
Initiative develops and stimulates
protective legislation, but simply
and solely because Ire is willing to
take orders from certain mannfac
turers who know what they want.
and who are willing to pay large
sums OF money TO secure a political
agent who will turn over to them
the taxing power, to do with it as
they will"