Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-02
Reminiscent General Walker.

congressman JaplGS \ Walker of
the Ninth Virginia District, may be
described as n statesmen whose flu.
ture lies behind him, reminiscent
sort of character, who has left some
very interesting, though inconsistent
tracks on the sand of politics. One
o! those tracks we have discovered in
the American new s1naprr in Phila
delphia, containedi,s Us l.-.,ne Of Feb
ruary ., 1881, being a ieply from
General Walker 20 some questions it
had sent him Since those replies
he has changed TO be Mckinley
tariff Republican, and as the Repub
hcan party has chaned in nothing
having only III its presidential term
attempted to pass force bin for the
South, aud its success having only
been prevented by two free silver
Republican senatorsAhis replies are
both interesting and amusing. He
says:
The South is solid against the po.
litical heresies aud political princi
pals of the Republican party, and
not against the North as a section.
Southern Democrats as well as
Northern Democrats. are opposed to
the centralizing doctrines and ten
denotes of the Republican party,
which would destroy the last vestage
of State rights" and make sover-
eIgn States DO more than counties
The southern people are, and have
always been, opposed to high pro
tective tariff. to the use of the
troops at the polls, ami TO the sub.
ordination of the civil to she military
power while all these things have
be en- advocated and upheld by the
Republican party"
10 some of the paragraphs of his
letter the Genera evidently had the
gift of provision of the presidential
campaign of 1896, and Mark Hanna's
millions. He says:
"You ask me to give YOU the
OPINION of the South upon the best
means of removing the bug bear IN
solid South) The best and ONLY
means | know of to remove the
friShtfnl spectacle of millions of peo.
pie voting their honest and sincere
political principles at the ballot box
is to- corrupt them, and by bribery
induce them to vote for policy and
not for principle"
About the feeling OF the RepabG
can party to the South, tue General
has this plain and accurate estimate
to make:
1T is useless for you to denv that
II the northern statesmen and the
northern press ron the Republican,
alde are the true expoEents OF the
Republican feeling, the Republicans
party OF the North hate ives that IS
the word) the South and the south
ern people, and hate sown will, like
the dragons teeth, breed a crop OF
aemed men. The price which the
kepubican party has always fixed as
the equivelant for its ceasing to per.
secnte the Soath has been an uncon
ditional surrender of it's Democratic
principles and the adoption of the
G eed of that party. Thauk God. the
Democratic white people of the South
are not for sale, and all the patron
age and all the Establishment Of aRc. |
publican administration could not
make them prove false to their polit
ical principals"
As the General is now on a stumn
assisting the elsetion of Mckinley |
aud the restoration of his tariff-tbe |
highest ever known in the history Of
the country-his Opinion expressed
about the tariff then is not without
interest. He says this:
ITO Democratic administration
we iooA iOr relief from the onerous