The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-18
AFTER JONES' SCALP.
Republican Party of Nevada De.
mands the Senator's Rexfrnatio1.

AeepnnlAcAh Iafty or Nevada De-
mands the Senator's Resignation.
Carson, New, Sept. Ex-senator John
r. Jones, of Nevada. has been request
ed by the Republican state committee
to resign his seat in the United States
Senate, to which he was elected bv
Republicans. This request is made in a
long letter, which was drafted by
Chairman Trennor Coffin, and approv-
ed by the state central committee at a
meeting held in this city. The letter
eXhaustively reviews Senator Jonesf
letter Of August 10Th, to the former
chairman of the committee, Enoch
Strother, in which Jones announces
that he has left the Republican party
to join the Populists, and severely
criticises his course of action. The
main points of the letter are as fol-
lows:
You say that you have not changed
your principles. Well and good. Then
1t follows that you have merely chang
ed your name. and instead of calling
yourself Republican, you will here
after term yourself a F0puIist. Do the
shining examples of PopuIist influence
! conspicuous among others, that of
your own colleague). with which you
are daily and hourly confronted in the
Senate justify the belief that such a
change will add to your prestige and
power as a member of that body? Do
not the cases of Summer, and Schurz.
and Turnbull. and many others, fur
nish the most painful reminders that
| the day upon which brilliant and dis
tinguiShed party leader breaks away
from the organization il which he has
won all his fame. marks She beginning
of his political decline? Can you rea-
| sonably expect a different result?
''But by what mental process you ar
rive at the conclusion that the great
| principle involved requires you to
part company with the Republican
party of Nevada, your letter entirely
fails to disclose. You cOncede that we
are true to the cause of silver. Then
why do you abandon us? If we are
true to silver, why does not devotion to
that principle of which you write so
eloquently. require you to remain true
! to us? Not only have we been true to-
every other great principle that you
hold dear; but more than all, we have
| been fidelity itself to you. Them we
ask again, why have you abandoned
us?
"The silver party does not accept
your name, while the Populist party
does not accept your creed, so that up
on every recognized political principles
you are literally left without a party
in the state of Nevada.
1.-THE publication of your letter has
Inot caused even a waiver in Republican
franks and no detection of any leader
however great and distinguished will
cause them to swerve a hairs breadth
from what they believe to be their.
duty.
I'm conclusion. we desire to- remind
you that YOU were elected to the
j United States Senate as a Republican
I by the Republican party. In the strict
] est sense the office isaa political one,
I and the Republican party Is entitled to
representation for the full term Of six
years from the 4th of March, 1891. AS
you announce that you can no longer
act with. the party that elected you.
Ievery consideration Of propriety and
4 delicacy requires you to resign. In the
Glnanne or the Republican party Of Ne
lvada, we respectfully request you to
lido SO.''