The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-18
SENATOR JONES LOVES DETROIT.
Not So Love-Sick as Representative Load.
stone that Holds Him There.

NOE SO LOve-S1ck as Representative Load.
stone that Holds Him There.
New York Star.
You're from the town with two curiositiess
said the New Yorker to Detroit friend in that
elaborate emporium of art and liquid refresh.
ment, the Hoffman House, last night.
What are theyp
"A winning baseball club and Senator Jones'
THE ball club is all right As for Senator
Jones, he is a gentleman who has been out
rageously maltreated by the American press.
The man who is gazetted as fool all over the
country is respected by the few who know him
in Detroit.
This impression that Jones is a strolling
lunatic asylum which has been created BY sensa-
tional newspapers is entirely unwarranted He
IS as sane as any one of his colleagues who have
been wrangling over appointments on the Po-
tomac while he has been consuming choice Ha-
vanas and the best brands OF liquids, and cool
ing his heels on shaded avenues He lives in
the best room of the best hotel of the best city
in the country. He pays his bills regularly and
puts in his spare time-and most of his time ie
that kind of time-deliyering addresses st diff
ferent cities in the State. and appearing as an
attraction at all Catholic assemblies.
More lies have been told about Jones than
were ever related concerning presidential can
dldate. From the original petty lie to the effect
that the Southern Senator was interested in .
Detroit heiress-dropped, | think, at Newport
last summer by relative of Miss Palms-the
newspapers erected a towering fabric of first
romantic aud then idiotic conduct on the part
OF the Senator. He was reported to be in the
habit OF sending dray-loads of flowers to the
home of the lady, and of walking by day and
by night past her residence Then il grew to
the troubabour business He twanged the
mandolin by moonlight under my lady's bower
with all the ardor of young scion of land of
chivalry The newspapers kept on dilating upon
these eccentrcitles, and next they had him go
to the residence Of the bishop and implore him
TO influence the obdurate maiden in the sacred
afn nP fha HI A.
this that he had offered heavy bribe to the
church for this favor, and had been threatened
with accommodation The next was that the
toe of the Bishops stalwart servant assisted in
removing the Senator from the episcopal resi-
dence. All this and much more was made from
whole cloth All the alleged eccentrieities ara
fabrics OF reportorial imagination.
During the time the Jones sensation ragged he
got more columns of advertising than any one
of his colleagues ever received. He has borne
himself with decided dignity and has steadily
declined to be interviewed-a custom that led
the reporters, in despair, to the invention of the
interesting fairy stories of which nave spoken.
All the newspapers of the West, and some from
the East, sent their most brilliant liars to write
up the crazy Senator and as the sober facts
did not make sensational reading, long inter-
views with the Senator were printed, purportiug
to come from intimate friends who had come
from the South to drag him back TO his own viue
and orange tree The reporters avenged them
selves for his silence by painting him lunatic
He is long way from that"
Then why does Jones stay in Detrotm
~ have heard it intimated in the small circle
of his intimates that he rather likes the attacks
that have been made on him.
'Likes them?o
Eyes, as a sort of natural selection of the least
OF two evils. Supposing the papers were TO say,
for instance. that his absence from Washington.
where he is member of the COMMITTEES that
considers the Mississippi leyee appropriations,
was worth money to Western syndicate Of
millionaires If they kept this up, am inclined
to the opinion that it would be more tiresome to
Jones than to be called forlorn and foolish
ifty-year- old lover