Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-09-09
GEN. WALKERS
Opinion of the Republican Par
ty in 1881.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS NOT
FOR SALE.

congressman James A. Walker may
be described Us statesman whose future
lies behind him, n reminiscent sort of a
character, who has left very interesting.
though inconsistent, tracks on the sands
OF politics. One of these tracks we have
recently discovered in the American, a
newspaper in Philadelphia, in its issue
of February 9Th, 1891, being a reply to
some questions il had sent General
Walker. Since those questions were
answered he has changed to be a William
kckinley tariff republican, and as the
republican party has changed in nothing
his replies are both interesting and
amusing. He says:
The South is solid against the polit-
ical heresies and political principles Of
the republican party, and not against
the North as section. Southern demo-
Gratis, as well as Northern democrats.
are opposed to the centralizing doctrines
and tendencies of the republican party,
which would destroy the last vestige of
state s rights and make sovereign
states no more than counties. Tho
Southern people arc. and have always
been, opposed TO high protective tariffs, to
the use OF troops at the polls aud to the sub
ordination OF the civil to the military power,
while all these things have been advocated
and upheld by the republican party
In some of the paragraphs of his letter
the general evidently had the gift of
provision of the presidential campaign
of 1891, and Mark Hanna's millions.
You ask me TO give you the opinion of
the South upon the best means of re-
moving the bugbear Ia solid South.
The best and only means | know of to
remove the frightful spectacle of mil
lions of people voting their sincere and
honest political principals at the ballot
box is to corrupt them, aud by bribery
induce them to vote for policy and not
for principle
About the feeling of tho republican
party to the South, the general has this
plain and accurate ststement TO make
1t is useless for you 10 deny that if the
Northern press on the republican side
are true exponents of the republican
feeling, the republican party of the
North hates (yes, that is the word) the
South and Southern people, and hate
soon will, like the Dragons teeth, breed
crop OF armed men The price which
the republican party has always fixed
as the equivalent for its ceasing TO per-
secute the South has been an uncondi-
tional surrender of it's Democratic prin-
cipies and the adoption of the creed Of
that party. Thank God. the democratic
white people of the South are not for
sale, and all the patronage and all the
Establishments of republican admins
tration could not make them prove false
to their political principles
AS the General is now n dissemination
of the doctrine of high protective tar
iff, his opinion expressed about the tariff
then is not without interest He saws
ITO democratic administration we
look for relief from the onerous and un-
just taxes placed upon the industries of
the South and from the enormous and
grinding impositions placed upon it by
a bounty tariff, which puts millions
upon millions annually into the pockets
of Northern manufacturers at the ex-
pense of the Southern producers
The following question and answer on
a subject on which the republican party
lin Virginia is peculiarly sensitive is to
the point HAS the time come or is
it near when the white people of
your state will affiliation with new par
ties 2" Answer: "Wlth the republican or
Negro party, / answer, no never, unless
that party changes its principles. -
Glade Springs Citizen, Sept. 1st.