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. Walkor may
be described us statesman whose future
lies behind him, reminiscent sort of u
character, who has left very interesting
though inconsistent, tracks on the sands
OF politics. Ono of these tracks we havo
recently discovered in tho American, u
newspaper in Philadelphia, in its issue
of February 9Th, 1891, being n reply to
some questions il had sent General
Walker. Since those questions we're
answered he has changed to DO II William
kckinley tariff republican, and rs tho
republican party has changed in nothing
his replies arc both interesting and
amusing. lie says:
The South is solid against the polit-
ical horesies and political principles of
the republican party, and not against
the North us section. Southern demo-
Gratis, us well as Northern democrats,
IRE opposed to the centralizing doctrines
and tendencies of tho republican party,
which would destroy the last vestigc of
States rights and mako sovereign
states no moro than counties. Tho
Southern people arc, and have always
been, opposed to high protective tariffs, 10
the use Of troops at tho polls aud TO tho sub
ordination OF the civil 10 tho military .powor,
while all these things have been advocated
and upheld by the republican party
In some of the paragraphs of his lc,tcr
the general evidently had tho gift of
provision of the presidential campaign
of 1891, and Mark Hanna's millions.
You ask me to give you tho opinion of
the South upon the best means of re-
moving the bugbear n 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 ut tho ballot
box is to corrupt them, and 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 atstcment to make
1T is useless for you to deny that if tho
Northern press on the republican side
are true opponents of tho republican
feeling, the republican party of the
North hatos tycs, that it ihc word) tho
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 its Democratic prin-
ciples 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 II republican admins
tration could not make them prove false
to their political principles"
AS the General is now disseminator
of the doctrine of high protective tar
iff, his opinion expressed about tho tariff
then is not without interest. He says
''To n democratic administration we
look for relief from the oMerous and un-
just taxes placed upon the industries of
the South and from the enormous and
grinding impositions placed upon il by
n 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
Il. d. II. - -
i'll Virginia is peculiarly sensitive is to
the point HAS the time come or is
it near when the white people of
your state will aflilation with new par
ties 7" Answer: "WIth the republican or
Negro party, | answer, no never, unless
that party changes its principles. -
Glade Springs Citizen, Sept. 1st.
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