Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-07-05


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shows it again for office, Ryan has a
stronger hold ON their affections than
is apparent now.
There is tide in political affairs,
which taken at the Flood leads on to
misfortune.
1t is not taking long shot to
guess that Congressman William A
Jones was in the firing line for
Bryan, Wilson, and Wall Street
divorced Democratic party.
Miss Democracy has been divorced
from Tammany Hall. Bryan's Exca-
libur cut the knot and Woodrow Will
son will see that there is no grass
widow flirting between now and No
vember.
Harry st. George Tucker came out
of the convention covered with glory
From the first shot to the last cannon
ade he fought true man 8 fight for
the rank and file of his people. He
did all he could to save Virginia from
the disgrace that Martin, Swanson
and Flood were using might and main
to heap upon her. All honor to Harry
Tucker and his nine loyal co-workers.
Champ Clark is not the only one
whose Presidential aspirations were
wrecked on the Bryan reef. Judson
Harmon is perchance rejecting on the
little mistake he made two years ago
when he politely informed Mr.. Bryan
that 1t was none of his particular
business what his position was as
regarded certain political questions of
national import.
A friend hands us the following:
Here are the names of our repre-
sentatives at the Baltimore conven-
ton: Hallalejah Denounce Flood,
Thomas Misfortune Ryan, Thomas
Standpat Martin and Clawed Announ-
cement Swanson-Virginia's Big
Four.
These gentlemen. it is said, are
doomed to be ridden by the nightmare
of the Baltimore convention.
Poor Champ Clark A good man
who lost his nerve when the glitter
ing prize was within his grasp. The
serpent whispered to Eve and she did
eat and Eden was lost. Bryan's most
venemous and vilest enemy, Hearst,
got Clark's ear, and "the vision of
the marble capitol faded Says
Clark :.'I lost the nomination through
the treachery of Bryan" Says
Bryan: eff you had listened to me
and not to my enemies you would
have been nominated by acclamation. "
In the cold gray dawn of the morn
ing after, our dear and delightful
friend, Alfred B., of The Roanoke
Times says that Bryan has joined with
Hearst and Murphy in support of the
nominee. Great jumping snakes and
horned rats Bryan's triumph in the
convention is gall and .wormwood to
MIR. Williams. but he should be more
guarded lest he confess that he too
has partaken of the bitter dose hand
ed Hearst and Murphy. Anti-Bryan
virus infames the corpuscles of his
blood trickles from the pores of his
skin. He performed an autopsy on
the Bryan corpse the first day of the
convention, hermetically sealed the
corpse and delivered it to the Lethean
waves. Indeed Mr.. Williams has
been official grave digger and under
taker for the Bryan remains since
1896. Alas, poor Yoric!
A man at the Baltimore convention
told a prominent member of the
Virginia delegation that Colonel A.
B. Williams, editor of the Roanoke
Times, looked so much like Judge
Parker that either one could preside
over the convention without any one
knowing the difference. Colonel Will
liams is just as prominent among the
Southern newspaper men as Judge
Parker is among the Democrats.
Buena Vista Times.