Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-07-31
DEMOCRATIC SERVILITY.

column and more OF editorial, i'm last
weeks issue, with these words: "For
more than thirty years the record Of
the Southern Democracy has been one
ofintense servility, insane prejudice and
fragrant Inconsistency"
or course, the readers of the Re
publican understand, by this time,
that condemnation OF everything Demo
cratic is in line OF the policy ofthatpaper,
and would be greatly surprised should
they accidently run across an editorial
Of any other kind in its columns. mo
good thing can come out ofDemocratic
Nazareth" so far as the Republican
is concerned. On the other hand.
the Republican party in the South is
immaculate clean. clear, steady and
unwavering i'm its devotion to high-bon
heaven-given principles
From its incipiency it has been the
champion and the only advocate OF high
social and moral principle. OF
COURsEl
The Democrats have been '.servile"
for thirty years, according to the Re
publican, because they have supported
Northern men for the Presidency
men whom they had previously disliked
or despised. We have always under
stood that platforms, not men, were
voted for. The fact that Seymoursup-
ported Lincoln's policies. that Horace
Greedy was an Aboltionist and General
Hancock ga rebel killer, and Grover
Cleveland, while Governor OF New York
signed bill passed almost unanimous
ly by both houses of the legislature
authorizing MIXED schools. in true
had nothing whatever To do with the
candidacy Of these men for President.
Platforms are made first and then
Presidents. The party makes the
platform, and the candidate who is
nominated upon it is supposed to ear
~ out, not his own iudividual notions.
but the wishes of his party as express
ed by the platform. Irstead of ex-
hibiting insane prejudice, Southern
Democrats have proven that they were
sufficiently free from narrow ness and
prejudice TO vote for any man or meas
ure which they believed would best
serve aud promote the welfare OF the
nation. For thirty years Southern
Democracy has stood for Southern
rights, white mans government. and
for the enactment and the maintenance
ofsuch laws in this government as would
promote the highest social. moral.
intellectual and financial uplifting of
all the people, and for thirty wears
Southern Republicans have opposed
Southern Democrats along this line
Even now Southern Republicans are
opposing, with all bitterness, every step
taken by the state governments for the
betterment of the domestic and finan-
cial condition of the colored people.
Talk about prejudice The policy of
Southern Republicans has always been,
"lind out what the Democrats are
going to do, and do the other thing. -
without any other consideration what.
ever.
The truth now is, that Northern
Republicans and Southern Democrats
are pretty generally agreed on MANY
lines OF action. tits only Southern Re-
publicans who permit their prejudice
TO dictate and control their actions.
AS TO Mr.. Cleveland and the negro
Mr.. Cleveland never entertained
Fred Douglas and wife, in the ordinary
sense Of the term. A President in his
official capacity, receives members o.
Congress and their wives as officials
not as private citizen receives ant
entertains. He has no choice as TO who
he invites. To fail to invite a Senator
Congressman or other Official is ,
slight and affront to the people anc
and the party who sent them there. Mr.
Cleveland was not in any way respon
sible for the | resence Of Fred Douglas