People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-21
WANT JONES TO RESIGN.
Nevada Republicans Address a Sharp
Letter to the fopulist Convert.


Letter to the Fopulist Convert
CARSON, New, Sept Ex-senator
John p. Jones of Nevada has been re-
quested by the Republican state CEN
trail committee to resign his seat in
the United States senate to which he
was elected by Republicans. This re-
quest is made in long letter which
was drafted by Chairman Trennor
Coffin, and approved by the state CEN
trail committee at a meeting held in
this city. 1t eXhaustively reviews
Senator Jones letter of August 30. to
the former chairman of the committee,
Enoch Strother, in which Jones an
nounced he had left the Republican
party to Join the Populists, and Sc
verely criticises his course of action.
The main points of the letter are as
follows:
"You say you have not changed
your principles. Well and good. Then
it follows you have merely changed
your name and instead of calling
yourself Republican, you will here
after term yourself Populist. Do
the shining examples of Populist in
fluence conspicuous among others,
that of your own colleague) with
which you are daily and hourly con-
fronted in the senate justify the be-
lief that such a change will add to
your prestige and power as member
of that body? Do not the cases of
Sumner and SchurZ, and Trumbull and
many others furnish the most painful
reminders that the day upon which a
brilliant and distinguished party
leader breaks away from the organ
ization in which he has won all his
fame marks the beginning of his po-
litical decline? Can you reasonably
expect a different result? But by
what mental process you arrive at the
conclusion the great principle in
volvcd requires you to part company
with the Republican party of Nevada,
your letter entirely fails to disclose.
You concede 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 the cause of silver. but we have
been true to every other great princi-
pie that you hold dear; and more than
all, we have been fidelity itself to
you. Then 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 upon every recognized
political principle you are literally
left without a party in the state of
Nevada. The publication of your let
ter has rot caused even a waver in
the ranks and no detection of any
leader, however great and distin-
guished, will cause them TO swerve a
hairs breadth from what they believe
to be their duty.
in conclusion, we desire to re-
mind you that you were elected to
the senate as a Republican by the
Republican party. In the strictest
sense of the Office it is political one,
and the Republican party is entitled
to representation for the full term of
six years from March 4, 1891. AS you
now announce you can no longer act
with the party that elected you, every
consideration of propriety and delica-
cy requires you to resign. In the
name of the Republican party of Ne
vada, we respectfully request you to
do So"