Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-04-07
HARMONY is The
First Requisite to Demo-
cratic Success.

Delmont Says lie VIII Suppor
Silver-Falling All Owe,
Himself to Get Into the BanC
Wagon.
New York, March 27.-The Heralt
yesterday published tho following
signed Statement:
AT your solicitation 1 will endeavI
or to say what 1 think should be the
line of conduct that should influence
the Democratic party in it's move
ments between now and the next
national campaign. The first call
should be for harmony. 1t is per
tect,y apparent that no progress
toward success can be made if the
party pauses on route to engage in
n free fight with itself. 1t would be
hardly necessary, if civil war were to
etornally rage within the limits of
Democracy for the Republicans to
make any effort at all. The Democ-
racy would defeat itself.
The line of present trouble seems
to run between the gold and silver
factions of the party. I cannot my
self see the propriety or need of this
strife. In that connection it Is only
fair to say that one side seems rs
eager for trouble as the other.
My idea is that every man in the
Democratic party, whether he be
gold man, n silver man or n bimet;
allist, or whether he for ratio of
16 to l or some other ratio, should
stand every ready to yield to the
wishes of the majority of his party
as expressed in the platform of it's
national convention.
If he be gold man and the con-
vention adopt free coinage plat
form, that gold man should yield.
If he be n silver man, and the con.
vention declares for single gold
standard thatsiIver man should yield
No man has right calling himself
n Democrat, to be greater or wiser
or ttronger than his party.
Speaking for myself, 1 am gold
man, yet I will unhesitatingly sup
port free silver 16 to l should il be
made tho platform sentiment of the
party in 1900. will give my sup.
port to any candidate whom the
convention selects.
1t is my opinion, Though; that
finance is not the fret question of
politics today. The trusts form the
giant evil, imminent and threaten.
ing in our affairs. These monster
combinations of money called trusts
whose methods contemplate the
bribery OF Congresses and Legisla-
lures, and even the control of the
courts, must be destroyed.
To do THE we should have an in
come tax and an Inheritance tax. We
should have public ownership of all
those franchises which are now in
the hands of great railroad, bridge
and electrical companies and other
combinations of kindred sort. Above
all we should have the initistiv and
referendum, and 30 put within the
actual power of the people at the
polls to propose or pass a law, or. il
needs, press to repeal law in spite
of any action by venal or corrupt
Congresses or Legislatures.
We should attack government by
Injunction and the national banl
system. We should be for the elec
ton of Senators aud United States
judges by the people. We should
be to increase the navy and agains
an increase in the army. We should
be against expansion and the sez
ing OF the Philippines beyond sucl
harbors or islands as are necessary
for naval stations.
If we were to go in for all thes'
matters and add to them an attack OIL
the opposition for its rbtten wa
record, for its roguery Of embalm et
beef, for its steals of contract, ther
should be no doubt of Democratic
success.
Oliver III. =. Belmont.
New York, March 25.
Street to Be Widened