Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-08-17
DEMOCRATS FROM
OVER VIRGINIA
General Talk on the State
Campaign
REPORTS ARE ENCOURAGING
proper" and Otherwise--Lead-
ers Have Their Little Joke
Senator Daniels News from
the West-Conditions
Better in the Ninth.


the West-Conditions
Better in the Ninth.
Members of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, candidates for
election to Congress and nominees
for electors on the Democratic ticket
with numbers of visiting Democrats.
held an experience meeting today at
the Jefferson. Reports were made
from every district in the State, and
from these Chairman j. Taylor Ely
son summed up the situation in the
remark that the conditions are bet.
ter today than they were in 1896.
aud that there is not enough money
in the United States to carry Vir-
gina against Bryan aud Stevenson.
The meeting was called to order
at ll;4O o'clock by Chairman Ellyson
the secresary, Joseph Button, of Ap-
pomattox, calling the roll OF mem
bersbip. MIR. Ellyson said:
II have called the State E1ecutiv.
Committee together this morning in
order that we might consider togeth
er the matters CT importance now
facing the party in Virginia and that
we might talk over the opening of
the campaign, which think, should
take place early in September.
ORGANIZATION REQUIRED.
"The first need OF the party is PEI.
feet organization. We should have
this, and We will have il. We should
return ten Democrats to Congress.
and We will do it. To do this we es.
pecially need force OF forceful
speakers to conduct the canvass OF
the State, and with proper work we
will carry the Old Dominion as il
should bo carried. have already
begun, through correspondence, the
perfection OF organization OF the
districts and counties of the State
and now 1 wish to arrange an allot-
mont OF counties for some member OF
the State Committee in each district.
Each member should have some spe-
cific work to do. some special terri
tory to look after. A State commit
teeman frequently knows less Of the
conditions Immediately surrounding
him than do others from more dis.
tant communities. but this trouble
must be eliminated, and / am sure
the members OF the present commit
tee will see that such trouble does
not arise this year.
In the plan OF organization. which
is now in the press and is soon 10 be
sent to ali sections of the State, or
ganization is valued first and speak
ing after. The fight OF this year is
not the equal Of that of 1896. The
fight is not as fierce in some sections
but We will do as well in the aggre-
gate and in the number of Congress-
men will do better
From the Ninth B. T.. Buchanan
came with the promise that the con
ditions are bettering daily and will
continue to do 80. He says that
with number Of central speakings
by speakers from outside the State.
men OF national reputation, the great
est good may be accomplished. The
fight will be aggressive from the Re-
publicans this year.
Il. A. Lynch. of Tazewell, and Con-
gresham Rhea concurred in the re-
marks of Mr.. Buchanan. Here oc-
CARED little exchange Of repartee
between Chairman Ellyson and Rep
resentative Rhea in which the latter
informed the Chairman that the con,
ditions are familiar here and that Mr..
ElIyson knows what should be done.
"Proper encouragement" was what
Mr.. Rhea asked for in his remarks
and Mr.. Ellyson wished the express
ion defined. To this the Congress-
man replied that he would not defne,
but that if the Chairman didn't know
it would not take long for him to find
out.