Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-07-03

run thrS Week with the survivors
of the Confederate army. The city
is covered with flags and bunting
and tho Vets are having u good
time.
THE Richmond Dispatch and
Times have been printing reunion
editions this week, and they are
gems of the first water. Richmond
should be proud of lfer morning
dailics as they are hardly equaled
anywhere in the South.
IN REPLY to % letter from Ct. w.
Hamnitt, of Bristol, as to General
Walkers financial views, tlre edit.
or Of the Bristol News says that
the General informed him or his
return from the ST. Louis convcn-
tlOn that he would stand on tlle
PLATFORM adopted l,y the National
Republicans convention, GIVE him
the nomination, boys, don't force
him to join the Populists.
FIN THE fight that is now going on
i'll the Democratic party on tire f.
nancial question it is noticable that
with, probably one or two exccp.
tions, the States that are talking
OF holting the Democratic convcn.
fion at Chicago never cast an cleo
soral vote fnra pemasssssS-sc &C. candi
Satc Since the war. 1t is about
fine fhat the States which cast
their veteS for Democratic candi-
dates shohld have something TO
say as to platform and candidate.
TT SEEMS to be q forcgOne cOhcln-
sion that Tazewcll is im the s'favor-
lite son'' business so far as this Con
greSsionaf District is concerned.
We DO not think there is u doubt
as to thc name of Mr.. J. w. Chap
man being presented to the with.
willie convention IT'S the choice of
TaZewell' comfy for the nomina
tion for Congress. Mr.. Chapman
would make an able representative,
and should tre District be so for
tunate as to secure his services i'm
Congress- they would always feel
proud TO 6hinlS that their rcpresen-
ative' was the peer of any man in
the honse Of Representatives.
THE New York Herald. % rabil
gold bug journal, now comes ont
whit the statement that it is the
Republicans with their goi,l stand.
ard platform that had better be
worried over the situation in the
State OF New York and not the
Democrats with their proposed
silver platform. The fight in the
interior of the State OF New York
where the big Republican majors
flies are rolled up, is getting rather
mixed mp so far as the financial
question: is concerned as the farm
ers, of all political faiths, az a gen
eral rule, are for the free coinlg,
OF silver, and the Herald says til,
signs point to the "obliteration o
the old partisan lines from til,
Pennsylvania boundary to- the ST
Lawrence and from Lake Erie t,
the Hudson" So much, for tin,
gold bugism Of New York.
WE wonder what our Republican
friends will now have to say abou
the party that stands in with Eng
Mnd.- The platform adopted a
St.Louis comes out sonarely TO
the gold standard, and we al
Know that if it had not beer TO
England the financial fight woul,
have ended. some years sgo an,
we would now have what is terme,
ihternatioqaii bimetaiism, but En-
gland refused to go in with th
other countries of the world and s.
the international conference failc,
OF accomplishing that for which i
was called. End now the Repul
lican party has adopted the sam
policy which England adopted a
that time and this same Republ