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

piles Of the party TO which it be-
longs ~ enunciated i'm the nation
al platform and expresses it's pride
IN being part of an organization
which faithfully adheres TO the
great principles of protection, dur
ing the continuance of which no
furnace hres have been ont, no
Factories closed and 40 army of
workers upon the streets and high
ways in forced idlehess.
alt denOunces the democratic
administration as the author of
unexampled and infinite distress,
sS responsible for unprecedented
corporation and individual insol-
vency and ruin, for losses and sor
rows beyond all compatiOn and
unworthy of the confidence and
good will of any people.
alt welcomes to its ranks the
hosts of independent voters who
have helped it to achieve the vic
tories of the last thfee wears and
promises them sill more glorious
triumph in the present year, and
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 cell facts and figures
will not bear ont the assertions
made. Mr.. Cleveland was not
nominated until the summer of
1892, and at that time many fur
naces and factories had been closed
up and thousand of men were
striking on account Of reduction
In wages in the years of 90,
'91 and '92, and before the Demo
cratic Congress, which was elected
in 1892 had met tlie 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 i'm full blast
and wages have been going up
instead OF down. For the truth
OF tie statements we have made
above we refer the thinking man
to the news columns of any Re
publican paper in the county, IS
also to the trade journals or the
years of 80, '91 and 80.
As to the hosts of independent
voters they welcome to their ranks
we can truthfully say they are not
to be found in Virginia, and from
the recent elections it would not
seem as if they were to be found
anywhere.
alt assures it's adlrcrets that the
day is not far distant 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 tlsis
State through the last Legislature
Ia call a convention TO revise tho
constitutions OF che 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 10y an effort
TO disfrauchiSe orr illiterate voters.
both white and cOlored, to set up a
fraudulent and pretended educa-
ton qualifications, ami to so amend
the present free school provision
as to place it IN the power of fu
ture legislatures to practically de-
stroy the beneficlent system of ed
ucatiOn engrafted in the present
constitution of the State by the
Republican party.
"The call for such a convention
means that it's members are to be
elected under our present obnOx-
ious and deteStable laws, and that
to them is to be given the power
also TO amend or destroy the home
stead clause of the constitution.
tire clauSe TO exempt our religious
non-combatants 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 a
law for a higher rate of interest
upon money"
OF all the claptrap we ever
read iF order to catch votes
the above is about the silliest ever
put into a platform in this or any
other State. 1t can be seen onthe
face of it, anu it does not take a.
brilliant mind to discern t. Fiat
1t was fixed up for the benefit of
the illiterate voters Of the Slate