Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-07-10
SILVER SECESSION
Revolt in Full Swing
Under Teiler's
Lead.
q. j. MGALL ON THE SITUA-
TON.
Ere West and South Uni
against McKmIey

AGAINST Mck fnIeY.
st. Louis, Mo, June 1.-Two
months ago | wrote from Washing
Ton that the West Would bolt Nc
Kinley and gold at the St. louis con
vcntion. As this is written in the
West, the silver West is marching
out. The revolt is practically accom-
plishod. The white savages Of silver
are leaving the reservation for the
war path. The great medicine man,
Teller, has set up the war pole, and
the young bucks vie with one anoth
er as to who shall be the first to
strike his war axe into it as q proof
of lis enlistment The mutiny i. on.
Rebellion js-afoot and the 2!!lvver
W0sf, with its own candidate and It's
own platform, will wage war on gold
and the East.
This means the defeat ofMcKinley,
possibly the death of republicanism.
Not the least significant of the
signs OF the hour is the steady con
idence with which the silver forces
march away. They leave their fel
lows OF gold rs Dundee left the
Whigamores Of Edinburg;their feath
ers tossing, their banners wide dung
and free. They nail their gauntlet
to gates Of gold and the East stands
defied to the uttermost war They
have remembered what the East for
got They, too have country and
a CAUSE. There is West and an
Fast. Silver has its clans, as well as
gold its people. The allied natives of
the East forgot, the West did not
And so the silver fighters go back
TO their tribes. IIannuism, McKin-
levism, and over reaching east pay
ing the hogs part in its golden self
ishness have split the party. The
last chance of success for the repub
licaus has DISAPPEARED.
There be hills beyond Pentland,
And friths beyond Forth,
If there be lords in the Lowland-.
There be chiefs IN the North
The east can laugh at these people.
The east should laugh at people less
aud study men more. This Eastern
policy of.the tip titled nose has al
ready cost it the south. That re-
gion glewers at the east across its
borders, and the fires of its hatred
never die. Today the west arrays
itself against the east and Begin
running out its line of battle. TIL
West has become an ally to. tn
south, aud the ally will be found t.
be harder, more iDdomitabie Ell
envy than the original'foe.
1t is pleasantand easy for the cas-
to como from its baths and'its ga
dens # games and its houses of ma
s5se and gilt to idle aboct its forul
and maligp the west and call its'pe
pie Goths and Vandals: The eas
might better recall what the Coil
aud VaDdals did to Rome.
These silver people are the Swi
OF America. They are poor in a
save courage. They have heard the
war horns sounding and the battle
On. They will fight with the co
vaior of buccaneers When the ca
goes against them, p:ide blown, pu
blind in its >conceit of riches, yet RET
ly weak with the possession Of th
which it relies most upon-its mo
ey--it will be tie old story of Charl
OF burgundy oveTagain. The Swi
will win, and whereas Just teri
might have been made with them,
then. hour of might and wisdom {
west will grant as little as it g,
What was done TO the west, t
west in ifs turn will do.
These silver men have AREA
made captive the senate of the u
ted States, there they appear [
seriest Spartans Of legislation; III