Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-08
GEN. j. A. WALKER.
His Course Regarding House
Contests from Virginia
Severely Criticised.
ATTACKS ON c0NFEDERATES
a Recent Outrageous One. to
Which the General has Made

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Washington Correspondent Richmond
Dispatch.)
General Walkers course i'm the
Virginia contested election cases is
the subject of quite severe crit
cism 10y Virginians here, and it is
not particularly agreeable to mem.
bers Of his own party. Probably
1T is commended by none but those
who Will bc The beneiiciaries of his
partisan methods.
alt strikes me as very strange
said a prominent Virginan this
morning, show General Walker, IN
the contested election case of Cor.
nett against Swanson, from the
Fifth Virginia District, should
find that the Walton law is uncon-
stitutional, and endorse report
to the House declaring the cleo
ton in the district null and void:
but, in the case of ThOrp against
Mckinney, from the Fourth Dis.
trict, should discover that the
Walton law was good and consti-
tutional enough to elect Th0rp and
unseat McKenncy. He is also re-
ported to he opposed to Tucker,
and in favor of seating Yost, while
common rumor says the remaining
Republican members of tho COM
mittee are almost unanimously in
favor of Tucker. Consistency is
evidently not one of the Generals
political priDciples.'
General Walker at all times
points with laudahle pride to his
splendid Confederate record, and
he boasts of succeeding the i'm
mortal Jackson as commander of
the Stonewall Brigade. Yet he
sat silently by in the Republican
convention, at Stanton, when the
name of Jackson was hissed, and
the only man to rei,ukr the misses
III deserving terms WAS Mr.. James
Frazier, himself Il Confederate
soldier, and Republican veteran
in Virginia politics, as compared
with General Walker, whose re.
cent "tlop' is fresh in the memor-
les of everybody.
The General, however, seems to
be adopting the same course in
Congress that he adopted at
StanntOn. Not only the name of
Jackson has been assaulted on the
floor OF the House, but that of his
widow also, and General Walker
has never said IL word in vindiea.
ton, or even III the defence, of
either.
ATTACK ON CONTEMPORARIES.
On Thursday, April 23d, the
House being in Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union.
and having under consideration
the bill relating to pensions, Rep
resentative Thad. NJ. Mahon, of
Pennsylvania, made a speech, in
which lie viciously attacked the
memory and record of many dis
tinguished Confederates, and Gen
eral Walker did not deem it his
duty to say word then, nor has
he dcne so since. In the course of
his remarks Mr.. Mahon said.
alt shows beyond all doubt that
the Democrats from the South,
aided by some of their Democratic
colleagues from the North, have
ever since the war been waging a
guerrilla warfare upon the crippled
and enfeebled old soldiers and
their widows. And this contempt.
lille business is still going on un
der the leadership of President
Cleveland and his Oman Friday.n
Hon. Hokc Smith, gentleman
from the Southland. In the name
of the 1850, 1872 men who Unered
their lives i'm d"rg:tc of the Union,
IN the name and over the sacred
graves of 1850 gallant men who
went down to death by disease
contracted in the service, and in
the hell of battle, in the name of
the tens of thousands ofloyal Sons
of the North, who were many long
and weary months confined in An.
Jacksonville, Libby Prison, and 9th.
er rebel prisons, all yeritahJo halls