Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-10-28
POLITICS IN
DICKINSON co.
Democrats and Republicans al
Clintwood-Big Day for
Democracy.
Democracy.


Several eamyaign speak ers we're on
hand to represent their re spsctiye
parties. A joint discussion was ar
ranged between the following speak
ers in the order named: j. l..
Gleaves. rep, Lieut.-Goy. j. E
Willard. dem; l.. r. Summers, rep..
district chairman. and s. w. Will
liams. dem.
Gleaves began by telling the peo-
pie how prosperous they were. ridi-
culed Joe Wysor and the new con-
stitntiou. He ATTEMPTED TO discuss
the tariff in u brief manner, but his
argument fell fiat on the ears OF his
hearers. He also accused the demo-
Gratis of stealing, aud called them
"ballot-box suffers" He said that
the men who were msnaging Park
er's campaign were the conspirators
with Grover CLEVELAND in the bond
issue OF 1893. At the conclusion of
his speech, II. S. McFall mounted the
stand and replied to Gleaves accusa-
tions against the Democratic party
by saying that Gleaves had come all
the way from Wythe 10 call the DEM
ocratic party thieves and cut throats
aud that il Samuel J. Tilden could
rise from his grave at Greystons he
could tell them something about
stealing. He then Introduced Will
lard, who discussed the tariff, race
question and other minor issues He
RETAINED from abuse, and made an
able argument for Democracy. This
was his first appearance In Dicken-
son, and he made lastiug Impress
ion.
l. p. Summers, republican dis
trict chairman. was the next speak
er. His speech was fry, inYictiye
aud most ultra denunciatiou OF Gro
yer Clcyelnnd's administration. He
heaped vituperation upon the heads
Of the members OF the late constitu-
tional convention. He told of n
great number of white men being
disfranchised in Washington anu
Lee counties. This same Summers
In a speech at Abingdon on the 3rd.
told of 81 white voters who were
dlsfranchised in the Clintwood pre-
cinct and of 450in Dckenson county.
He was careful not TO repeat this
before a Dickenson county audience,
for TO say the least this charge Is
utterly false.
He tried to belittleJoe Wysor, who
like the great man OF old stands head
and shoulders ahoyethose who make
such uncalied for attacks upon him.
He said that during Cleveland
administration that all the mines and
, factories of this country had gone
Democratic.
He called himself and Gleaves the
presiding elders of the Ninth dis.
tric.
When he concluded, Judge Viii
liams mounted the stand and it wai
! Several minutes before he could pro
3 ceed, the croAd chsered so wildly
= He began by saying that after thes,
e elders had exhortsd and cavortet
{ that "the old mounlains still stood
the sun still shines and the Grea
t God omnipotent still reigns, and In,
Democratic party still lives"
He discussed the tariff and shove,
how American made goods are bein,
sold in foreign countries eheape
n than in America. He cited Cieye
3 lands denial Of the Fred Dougla
n incident as g reply to Summer
i charge of this oft-repeated statemen
He next discussed imperialism an,
his argument was so plain that n
who inns may read
He replied to the attacks on tn
new constitution and told the al
dience they could not change th
suffrage laws by voting for Co
Slemp.
" He said that Teddy Roosevelt wa
unworthy to loose the shoe latch,
OF President Mckinley. That he hs
A
J meyer been elected President, and 1
SAID he did not believe he ever woul
be-.
Wysor will carry this county by
,o good sized majority, aud we hoI
the other counties will help to bul
Col. Slemp beneath an avalanche