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FEBRUARY 17, 189b.
JONES ON CO-OPERATION.
Turn to the inside of this
paper and read what Senator
Jones said, produced and en
dorsed in his speech in the
Senate on the Teller resolu
tion. You will remember that
this same Jones is of Ar
kansas, and is the national
chairman of the Democratic
party. His speech shows that
he is getting ihis eyes open to
the serious situation thatcon
fronts the people. He is the
same man who said after
Bryan was nominated, that
the Democrats could'nt carry
five States without the Popu
list votes. He doubtless rea
lizes that the same is still true.
Then, like others, he thought
that he could get them any
way; and whether they elect
ed Bryan or not, it would
tend to destoy the Populist
party. Now, like others, he
realizes that the only wise and
juat thing is to recognize the
fact that the populist party
is a living, growing factor in
American politics, based upon
those principles that effect
the great masses, and cannot
die. And this is the same
Jones who said at that time
to let the Populists go with
the negroes where they be
long. We are glad to see he
has seen his mistake along
this line. All the trouble has
come out of the fact that the
local and general organized
political machine in Mr.
Jones party thought they
were ordained of to dictate
and the people's duty to obey.
But that day has passed. In
dividuals have rights, and
parties have rights. As in
dividuals cannot live unto
themselves and frequently
have to co-operate with their
neighbors and other distinct
individuals to accomplish
needed results, so political
parties cannot live unto them
selves independent of others.
If they attain to that power
they soon become too corrupt
' and dangerous to the rights
and liberties of the people.
We think Jones is getting
right, t but whether he can get
his party to lay aside local
and personal interests and
prejudices to do so, will be
seen. Wonder what the Dem
ocratic papers in this State
j ill have to say about Mr.
Jones' position! Speak out,
gentlemen. -Hickory Mercury.
In the next column on this
page will be found the speech
the Mercury refers to.l
He Favors a Union of Forces on
Silver, and Honcpoly Which
is Grinding: Out the Life Blood
of the People.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
and the national Chairman of
the Democratic party, in his
speech in the United States
Senate in favor of the Teller
resolution to pay off national
bonds in silver, closed his
speech 4is follows :
Mr. President, if every lead
ing man in the United States
who has been connected with
this movement were to turn
his back upon it, I tell you
the people would not stop;
and I know something of
their feeling. I believe I un
derstand that feeling. It was
not the leadership of the
party at Chicago which de
clared this to be the leading
question, but it was so de
clared because the people be
hind that convention drove
the delegates to a recognition
of the fact which existed in
the minds and hearts of the
American people, and it was
that which forced that de
claration in that platform;
and the people are more de
termined now than before.
They will remain true to
their declaration, and so the
men who are laying the flat
tering unction to their souls
that we will abandon the
fight may as well make up
their minds now that they
are going to wake up and find
themselves mistaken, as they
did when they predicted we
had gone to pieces in 1896.
Mr. President, Just-4n this
line, and for the purpose of
showing to the people who
care to know the truth what
the sentiment is, I have clip
ped from the Cincinnati En
quirer an editorial which I
desire to read. We all know
that this paper is one of the
foremost papers of the land,
one of the great journals
which has acquired an im
mense influence under a di
rect and able leadership,
which means much in this
country. When that great
paper recognizes the great im
portance of united action, as
it does in the editorial which
I am about to read, it cannot
be ignored, and while I do
not want to tresspass on the
time of the Senate at any
length, I must beg pardon
for taking sufficient time to
read that article. It is as
follows:
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITED AC
TION. We beg Democrats and
their silver allies of other
parties to realize the over
whelming importance of con
tinued unity. In union there
is strength. Nothing but the
false pretences of the Repub
lican party that it favored
bimetallism gave them the
election in 1896. President
McKinley, Secretary Gage,
and ex-Senator Edmunds
have now hung millstones
around the neck of the Re
publican party in the shape
of the gold standard meas
ures pending in Congress.
That party has forever part
ed company with every earn
est bimetal list, including
those who had hoped for in
ternational bimetallism. Vic
tory is, therefore, absolutely
sure this year and again in
1900, if we do not allow our
enemies to divide us. They
must not be allowed to sow
tares among the wheat. The
one overwhelming question
before the , American people
is the restoration of gold and
silver on equal terms to their
constitutional place as money
metals.
This great government is
for the common good. With
out it there lie before us
years of disaster, retrogres
sion and general distress.
The utmost good feeling is
necessary between all the
elements which acted to
gether in 1896. Earnest ad
vocates of free coinage will
recognize the importance of
cultivating good will and of
overlooking personal advan
tages in the coming cam
paign. The contest for the
possession of both the United
States Senate and the next
House of Representatives is
near at hand. It is not in
the nature of things tlaait
every friend of free coinage
to be elected will come from
the Democratic party, nor is
it all necessary that former
party divisions should T&W
thought of among the friends
of our cause.
A good rule to be adopted
would be that where there iaJ
a true blue supporter of the
free coinage of silver already
occuping a seat in the House
or Senate as the fruit of a
generous and hearty fusion
between Democrats and their
Populist or silver Republican
allies; it would be unwise to
'swap horses while crossing
the stream" in the coming
campaign. It ought not to
be difficult for Populists and
ft em a T a a e a
otiver uepuDiieans to join
hands in the re-election of a
true and tried Senator or
Representative of Democratic
antecedents, and it ought not
to be difficult for Democrats
to continue in place a stal
wart and unswavering friend
of free coinage who has
hitherto been either a Popu
list or a Silver Republican.
In other words, success will
be the more certain the lesa
inclination there is to make
seats in Congress merely the
prize Jto be contended for in a
sbarf struggle in our ranks
for the ascendancy of an in
dividual in a given locality.
It should rejoice every
Democrat that his party has
planted itself on such broad
lines and has so completely
restored the old Demcratic
landmark on the money ques
tion that its ranks are being
recruited every day by acces
sions from the Republican
party of men who refuse to
be included in the sale of that
party to the gold trust, which
took place in St. Louis in '96.
In union there is strength;
divided we faU. We earnest
ly exhort all those who seek
the establishment of bimetal
ism to waste no strength in
personal struggles with the
lines. Democrats and their
allies should only engage in
a generous strife to see who
shall carry forward farthest
the bimetallic standard. Sus
tain the man who seems to be
most likely to lead the allied
forces to victory in any given
State and district, scorning
either to ask or remember
who were his political asso
ciates in former contests with
which the present is in no
wise concerned.
A f t er quoting what Senator
Dubois, of Idaho, leader of
the Silver Republican party
had to say, viz: That the
Silver Republicans would not
endorse the present gold
standard administration,
Chairman Jones closed by
saying:
The sentiments expressed
by this great paper in the East
and this distinguished citizen
of the great West will awaken
responsive feelings all over
the country. I heartily en-
riot t
1898 v 1 89
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Spring
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