Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-05


I Is 4 most unseemly way for dead
man TO perform. III that is death. most
people. including all the editors, pro-
prietors. writer's and typesetters of
The CD. would take pleasure in dy-
ing. The Globe-Democrat. as Il thinks
OF Bryan making 100000 year cut
OF bis paper and $500 or $500 day lee
turing. must frequently reflect upon q
wonderful prediction Ii made I'm the au-
tumn OF 1896. shortly after the election
OF that year. 10 the effect that in less
than six months Bryan would be so
thoroughly forgotten that he would
have to fall out of third story win
dow In order to get his name into n
newspaper. Nearly Ave years have
elapsed since that idiotic and malicious
prediction was given TO the world, and
yet the editor OF The CD. would not
consider any issue of that paper com
plete without one or more mentions of
the mighty Nebraskan.
Barring Mr.. Mckinley alone, there is
no Republican statesman who can draw
an SS45 audience In any town In the
United States Of the size of Cameron.
Mo-, not even Marcus A. Hanna. who
is undoubtedly the leading Republican
presidential candidate III The CD.
believes he can, let him try II.
Much Depends.
Some time before long 1 intend to
hunt up one of Nebraska's old blue
backed spoilers and transplant from it
into The Congressional Record the
story to the effect that much depends
on whose OK is gored. 1t contains
much wisdom, and the rising genera
ton should be made familiar with II.
1t finds its latest Illustration in the
savage and scurrilous manner in which
Republican organ grinders are jump
ing on Bryan for his structures on the
supreme courts preposterous decision
i'm the Porto Rican case-i. e., the de-
cision which turns over the Porto
Ricans to the tender mercies of con-
gress, unrestrained by the limitations
of the constitution. The Kansas CITY
Journal has a very commendable habit
of printing the title of each daily issue
in flaring red line across the face OF
the front page. One day recently it
had: Porto Rico should take n rain
check. William J. Bryan reverses the
supreme court" That was not only in
teresting, but mystifying. What rain
checks have to do with Bryan. Porto
Rico and the supreme court, like the
peace Of God, passeth all understand
ing. But, waving that, why should not
Bryan reverse the supreme court? Ev-
cry lawyer in America knows that the
decision is utterly ridiculous and mis-
chievous, and every lawyer Of any in
dependence of character has said SO, is
saying so or will say so. OF course
there is a class of sycophants and lick
spittles who Will indorse IL because
they want Office or desire to stand well
at court. There is another class who
indorse it. we'll knowing that IL shames
common sense and law learning, be-
cause they honestly believe that an i'm
perial policy is best.
That great constitutional lawyer,
General Wesley Merritt, who learned
his law while lighting Indians, voiced
the sentiments Of that class when he
delivered the opinion of the court In
this curt. succinct. comprehensive and
straightforward fashion: 1.-THE constl-
tuition is played out. There is no use
10 discuss It," People would have had
more respect for Mr.. Justice Brown
and his decision IL he had simply an
nounced. 'Thls court hereby affirms
the decision of Major General Wesley
Merritt and declares the constitution
dead as the men who lived before the
food" instead of wasting much ink
and paper to write an opinion which
means the same thing and which by its
limping logic has a tendency TO bring
i hn
cial system into contempt.
The Journal and others of that ilk
need not try TO write down the men
who condemn that opinion. To write
them down would be to write down the
brains and conscience of the country.
Very much depends on whose OK is
| gored. The love and reverence of Re
publicans for the supreme court are
comparatively new. They made a po-
litical issue of the bred Scott decision
and enlarged and packed the supreme
court to reverse the first legal tender
decision, and, although they pretend to
worship the supreme court now, If ii
dared to render decision not in accord
with their political ideas they would
remodel 1t or enlarge 1t or abolish 1t,
situation might demand. SO they should
go very slow about abusing men who
have the sense and courage to denounce
this outrageous and un-American deci-
| sion. Folks who live In glass houses
! should be economical in the rock throw
ing business.
"A Pretty Fight as 1t Stands.
Lovers OF truth and right and justice
everywhere are rejoiced by reason of
the internecine fight now raging in the
Republican party on the tariff question.
The Washington Post, as / have re-
peatedly stated, is an able high tariff
advocate, but it recently contained the
following editorial under the title
Dangerous Tactics"
Abuse OF Representative Babcock by those Re
/ publican organs that have gone daft protection
i will not drive that sturdy champion of Repub.
ican principles and policies out OF the Repub-
| lican party. The man who in four successive