Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-08-09
a Crisis in the Southwest.


the most serious consideration at the
hands of the party. A condition, not
theory, confronts them. They are
called upon to grapple with monster,
and no half heartedness or cowardly
action must be tolerated, even for a
moment. The probability is, that
unless action is prompt aud decided
the entire district AID the State will
fall into the hands of the vo, acious.
Office seeking Republicans at our
next election. The great old State
OF Virginia, which has been ruled by
white men, and the best blood of a
noble ancestry, for an hundred years.
IS threatened with fall The black
shadow of a coming evil hovers over
the political horizon, and time is
coming which will try mems souls.
We are not an alarmist, neither are
we pessimistic, and we beg the
friends of good government, who love
their homes and who have any desire
TO see the Stale prosper, to heed our
warning, and here it is:
The Honorable Gordon William
Robertson, Of Roanoke, the "Mapic
City" of the Southwest, must be
nominated for Attorney General of
the State, or all is lost. The Rof-
noke Times assures the country that
this is fact, and of course. it is
The Republicans are going to hold
their convention in Roanoke i'm this
month, and this great event naturally
and rightfully fills us with seri
Gus forebodings. The Times makes
the awful announcement that the
Republicans are going to put full
ticket in the field-some. hing they
havn't done for years, and this bare
statement has already filled The State
with great fear and trembling. When
the Republicans nominate full
State ticket they make things move
and the Democrats quake with fear.
Such thing is an event in Virginia
politics, and we call upon the con-
vention at Norfolk to note the fact,
and be prepared to meet it.
The situation is complicated bv
the fact that this ominous convention
is to meet In Roanoke-yes, absolute
ly in Ro tnoke, the hub of the South
west-the Queen City of the Noun
tains. If ii met in Richmond
Lynchburg or even in Bristol. the
situation would not be so DISTRESSING
but the announcement that the
convention is to meet in Roanoke.
and to put full ticket in the fields
enough to fill the Democracy of the
State, and of the Ninth District in
particular, with great alarm. Since
this dread announcement was made Il
dawned upon the country why the
constitutional convention adjourned
1t must have been on account of this
great event. Time and serious con-
sideration is demanded op the mart
OF the leaders of the party. A great
thing is about to take place-tbe
aggressive Republican party-united
and backed by the administration. is
to meet in the city of Roanoke. This
meeting, if possible. ought to be
circunvented. Such bold audacitv
on the part of the Republicans as to
dare TO meet In the city OF Roanoke
Is objectionable and unprecedente
a strict search among the dilapidated
lumber bins of history falls to dis
close any acts of the party of audaci
ty equal to this, and severe. stinoing
rebuze-so severe and singing that
the party with its full ticket sbonld
never dare to pop up its hydra head
in respectable society. Happily, sal.
vatIon is nigh. The country is not
left without hope and the means of ,,
rescue If wise we may still olive
Not only so, but such rebuke may
be administered, and such an iono
mInious defeat brought upon said
audacious party, and such victory To
the Domosrecy as will make an era
u the rise of one and the fall of the
other party as to astonish the stu :
tents OF history in com 'ng ages.
The Times, thanks to it's uDself n
'enehcence, suggests that the on, {
lope of the State is the nomination
4 the Honorable William Gordon .
robertson for attorney General of 7
ne State. Happy thought wonder
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