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


affirms its allegiance to the princi-
pies Of the party to which it be-
longs rs enupciated i'm the nation
al platform and expresses it's pride
in being part of an organization
which faithfully adhercs to the
great principles of protection, dur
ing tho continuance of which no
fnrhace fires have been out, no
factSrieB CLOSED and 10 army OF
workers upon the streets and high.
ways in forced idieness.
cit denounces the democratic
administration as the author of
unexampled and infiuite distress,
as responsible for unprecedented
corporation aid individual insol-
vency and ruin, for losses and sor
rows beyond all c6mpation and
unworthy of the confidence and
good will of any people.
sit welcomes to it's ranks the
hosts of independent voters who
have helped it to achieve tho vic.
tories of the last three years and
promises them u still more glorious
triumph in the present year, aud
it believes In those that are to
come hereafter for all time"
If talk amounted to anything
the above might be considered a
brilliant effort OH the part Of it's
authors, but col facts ani figures
will not bear ont the assertions
made. Mr.. Cleveland was not
nominated until tho summer of
1892, ind at that time many fur
naces and factories had been closed
up and thousand of men were
striking on account of reduction
III wages in the years of 90,
'01 and '92, and before the Demo
cratic Congress, which was elected
in 1892 had met tile panic had set
in, all owing to the glorious effect
of the Mckinley tariff, and since it's
repeal most of the furnaces and
factories have been in full blast
and wages have been going up
instead Of down. For the truth
OF the statements we have made
above we refer the thinking man
to the news columns Of any Re
publican paper in the county, rs
also to the trade journals of tile
years of go, '9l and '92.
As to the hosts of independent
voters they welcome to their ranks
we can truthfully say they are not
to he found in Virginia, and from
the recent elections it would not
seem as if they were to be found
anywhere.
at assures it's adhcrets that the
day is not far distamt when emerg-
ing from its difficulties and en-
barrassmcnts the old State of Wiz.
ginia shall herself be crowned with
Republican success.
"The Republican party of Vir-
ginia in convention assembled de-
nounres the proposition coming
from the Democratic party of flsis
State through the last Legislature
to call a convention to revise the
constitutions of the State as being
the first movement of the enemies
OF our public free schools.
ats manifest purpose is to stem
the swelling tide of Republican
progress in our State by an effort
to disiranchise onrilliterate voters,
both white and colored, to set up a
fraudulent and pretended educa.
ton qualifications, and to so amend
the present free school provision
as to place it IN the power of fiji
ture legislatures to- practically dc.
stroy the beneficlent system of ed
ncation engrafted in the present
constitution of the State by the
Republican party.
"The call for such convention
means that it's members are to be
elected under our present obnox-
ious and detestable laws, and that
to them is to DE given the power
also to amend or destroy the home
stead clause of the constitution,
tire clause to exempt our religious
non-comhatants from the compul.
sorry military services and other
wise acceptable provisions of that
instrument and judging from re-
cent legislation to put also beyond
the power Of Legislative repeal o
law for a higher rate of interest
upon money"
OF all the claptrap we ever
read i'm order to catch votes
the above is about the silliest ever
put into platform in this OF any
other State. IL can Ina seaD on,tha