Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-11-12
The Democratic Outlook.

which the results indicate ha.
brought hope and confidence TO the
Democrats, and in the struggle fol
advantage in the congressional
elections of next year and the presi
dental election of 1900, the advan
tage is now with the party of the
people.
From the fall of Gar Reeds CAV
el tie ti'si week of ID rtulb@r nnli.
AdJourumeut comes in the ALnrn.i
following every move in Cor.re,s
Mil be 81 interest t. the people IL, q
OF Importance IN its bearings on ia,
future The Democratic leaders 90
into that contest with their forces
united and NTH the certainty of ap
Proval at the hands Of the people.
If IN all things they are true to the
principles of their party.
The election results mean that the
party is stronger today than it has
ever been. In these early contests
the people have repudiated the Nc.
hinley Hanna administration. The
hollowness of that cry that prosper.
ty had come as the result of repub.
lican legislation has been seen bv
the people, and they have register
ed their refusal to be fooled. Wher
ever there was fighting chance to
over throw the administration party
with its vast campaI gn funds and its
tn usands of office promises. the
people have done the overthrowino.
and even in the supposedly impreg
nable republican strongholds they
have shown the strength of then
Democratic sentiments 10y great
democratic gains.
The Democratic leaders enter mn
on their duties in congress fortified
In the knowledge that the drift OF
public sentiment is their way. That
they VIII take advantage OF this. /
strengthening il every way possible
their position, by emphasizing their
adherancc TO true Democratic prin. (
clples and their determination to
bring substantial relief through leo.
lslatlon on the line of those priuci
pies. IS certain. On the other hand /
the Republicans will begin the fight
IN this session of Congress- dis
hearted by the knowledge that the
drift is against them; that defeat is
impending, aud with the further
knowledge that their own forces are
badly divided.
All sorts of trouble seems to be
coming in the way of the men who
secured control of the government
by promises which they have no,
only failed to fulin, but which thew
had no intention of fulfilling. The
republican forces are certain to show
wide divisions on any proposition
the party advances looking to the
financial and monetary reform. The !
failure of the Wolcott commission
wipes away the last vestage of the
international bimetalhsm pretense
and mears now that the party must
come out in the open in defence Of
the single gold standard, whose ev
lis so many Of its leaders have 81
long and 50 bitterly denounced. The
money power owns the republican
party, and despite the warnings Of
ITS wisest leaders in time past il Is
compelled cow to come out in bold /
defense of that disastrous experi. |
ment IN financial Legislation. The
eastern leaders. or most of tbem
will be found standing willingly TO |
THIS policy, the western republicans
VIII protest, for they know such a
position means reputation at the
hands of their constituents. The
party will be badly split, and its
chances of enacting any financial leo |
lsiation that can strengthen their /
party is infnitesimal.
These considerations and other.
will make the coming session of Con. |
gress full Of interest aud of political
The Republicans 90
INTO 1T burdened with the practical
certainty of further reputation ard |
defeat; the democratic position on
the other hand is one full of brne |
and OF confidence that the future i
TO bring party victory and subst.n |
tial relief to the people whose Div |
nope hes in Democratic control Of !
congress and of the administration