Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
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n sample OF the kind Of iapdooile
witlr wfrich republicans orators stuff
their ere'iulous hearers Is found in. the
address OF State Senator H. q Stokes,
chairman OF the late republics:u state
eonventieh of New Jersey. after
elnimiaG That etcry good thing on
earth wns the resist of Republicans leg
hslation or officc-holding, and that all
calamity and misfortune has been
caused by the wicked democrats, he
proceeded TO explain why this was SO,
The republican, party" lie said, lis u
party whose principles are as broad Az
the nation and rs great as the repub-
Tic; party that stands for all that is
Ercgt and inspiring. 1t stands for hui
aaan free,io,u and has sympathy for
liberty ut home and abroad. 1t stands
for Justice end eQual rights for nli."
Brave words Truly a noble plat
form for any party. But does this
declaration OF principles represent re-
publicanism of to-dayY IS the party
which stands for combination of
local selfish interests, all seeking for
government favOrs Mt the expense of
the whole people, really one of troad
national principles? Does the party
which makes its campaigns on appeals
TO sectional prejudice, ignorance aud
greed, stand for sH that Is great and
inspiring? Whit kind of freedom is
favored by tho shameless spoilsmen
who corrupt the voters whom they
hive impoverished with funds wrung
from the benc hciarics of class lcyisln-
tion2 Freedom TO bear heavy tnx bur
dens and to buy dear goods from tariff
created monopolists? Liberty, to trade
with foreign nations only tl payment
OF heavy fines ON all goods talfen In
exchange for those we send abroad?
Are commerce Restricting laws which
force the masses to pay annually enor-
nous sum5 TO IA privileged cluss ennoted
fn the spirit of libertyS Does true
freedom mean the oppression OF the
many by unjust taxatin, In order that
tire few may roll up great fnrtunco?
Has the party of Quay and Pln,t, OF
FutFryin9 Foster and Bioclss- Of Five
Dudley enacted n single law during
ths past 30 years that has been Oh the
side OF liberty md ayninst rcstrlctionp
1t Is possible that Senator Stokes
WIS uOt ASuhneu 10 pnOllciy declare
tltst the republican party stunds for
Justice and equal rights for all. He
certainly should have been. The at
tempt Of the party which owes Its
present existence to the defense and
advocacy of injustice to pose as the
champion of equal rights is an insult
TO the people who for over 80 years
have been robbed by the party's laws
The farmers who have Lecn crushed
into poverty by n system of taxation
which violated every principle of equal
rights; the worlsingmcn who under
protection pnid far heavier taxes on
shear necessities than the rich men did
ON their lnxurics, know how littlo
truth there is in the republican claim.
They know that the once great party
of Lincoln Inns passed into the hands
OF n "ang of corrupt agents of monop-
oily, and that the only promise for any
1eul reform in the interest of the
masses must come through the democ-
facy, the party OF the common people