Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-09

l not. l will never say that a man IS
 not Democrat who does not agree
 with me in matter of party detail.
 l believe that we should send free
 silver delegation to the National
 Convention at Chicago on July z,
 but would not send any man to that convention who ever dreamed of
 bolting the party"
 In that sentiment the speaker showed that he was in perfect accord
 with Crisp, of Georgia, who, he de- clared, forgot more about the silver question every night than Dan Jones ever knew about it. McRae, Terry, Little and the entire Arkansas dele gation in Congress had also ex- pressed the same opinion. He then touchingly referred to the efforts in Congress in behalf of Democracy of such men as Thurman, of Ohio; Ran dall, of Pennsylvania, and others, and declared that the Democrats of those States, who giveu Democratic Congressman, are entitled to voice in the National Democratic Conven tion.
 Col. Harrod then referred to Jones' statement that the speaker had the support of all the "gold-bugs" in the State, and read from the Dollar" the Populist paper at Little Rock, edited by Rube Carl Lee, to show that Jones' doctrine was Populism, and calling on him to go with the party where his heart is. "I would rather be a dead Democrat than a live Populist," exultantly shouted the speaker, "and I want no Popu- list to tell me where my heart is. .' He charged that Mir. Jones did not know anything about the silver question and said that in his cam- paign in Yell county Col, Jones read the speech of Populist Senator from Nevada to all of his audiences.
 ''If the party does not declare for silver, it is needless to desert it, i" Mir. Harrod continued. "It was twenty years before we got a deela- ration for tariff reform, but finally it came.'
 He then paid his respects to bolt CTS, dwelling upon the demoralizing ank disastrous effects bolt for Pres ident would have OH State and county politics.
 s.If Democrats can bolt for Presi- dent, why not for township and county officers as well?" the speaker asked. He pointed out the disas- trous moral effects a bolt would have on every county in the State and warned democrats against such a policy. In conclusion he declared himself for a railway commission and made a strong appeal for the support of Jefferson county, and took his seat amid loud shouts of applause.
 COL. DAN W. JONES.
 Col. Dan ones was then introduced and received with applause. He started out by saying that he al- lowed no man to write his platform, and then proceeded to tell a joke. 'I propose to preserve the Demo- cratic party from its enemies,' was one of his first declarations. '"The Dam mncrafia nartv aap,+ ao,,;,,o4o 4. gold-bug President; it would not be a Democratic party if it did, was the next. He then detailed the his tory Of the party and said that Jef- fersOn had declared that silver should be the standard of measure, and that silver had always been money. At this juncture he launched out into a full discussion of the silver question and stated that MT. Harrod had stated that if Rothchild wrote the Democratic platform and the devil were the candidate for President, he { Harrod) would support the ticket ''I draw the line on Rothehild and the devil, and Cleveland, too," shouted Mir. Jones, which was re- ceiyed with applause.
 He then presentnd the corporation idea, that the body polite is a quasi corporation, and that in all corpora tions an act not in keeping with the bylaws of that corporation is null
 n I
 mean that the acts of the officers of the Democratic party are not in keeping with the principles of the party, and therefore null and void.
 The speaker then jumped on to the Arkansas Gazette, and said that it was supporting Col. Harrod, of which the latter was proud, and then exclaimed: '"The idea of any ha6 hof AL.