The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-09
A C0TERIE 0F.SLANDERRS
Engaged in the Business of Misrepre-
senting James X Jones Pr
Vate Affairs.

himself a palatial home in Was
ington City, costing $4j, 600, in the
most fashionable part of the Capt.
tai, educated his children in Eu-
rope, and with al this had laid up
a Snug sum- for a rainy day. The
World, in this article, inslnuates
that Jones could not have obtained
all of this wealth from his salary,
and this argument being reasona-
BILE, the people would infer that he
had sold out to some of the many
gigantic schemes that are put be-
fore Congress and the Senate al
most daily.
The article was a vicious attack
on the Senator and was taken up
by the Ft. Smith Democrat and
other Clarke papers, and rolled un-
der their tongues as a sweet anti
Jones morsel.
Seeing the injustice done Senator
Jones we enclosed him the clipping
and asked him for a denial of the
same, as we knew it to he false and
wished to authenticity brand it as
such. We make the following eX-
tract from Senator Jones letter
IN reply:
"Your enclosed clipping from the
Helena World received, The insin-
uations are all false. The author
of that article could easily have
known the facts if he had wanted.
The records of the District show the
cost of my home and lot, and the
assessment for taxation is a mat
ter of public record, and the assess
or's books show the valuation to be
1914, and the assessment not made
by me, but | think is made by d
Board whose duty it is to assess
property. bought the home ten
years ago next summer, and paid
S8, 500 for it, $2, 500 of which l had
and borrowed $4,000 more, Civ
ing a mortgage on the home for it.
This mortgage | have reduced to
tour thousand five hundred dollars,
and that amount now stands
against the home and covered by
mortgage. 1t is cheaper to pay in
terest on $4,000 than it is to pay
rent at the rate Of $75 to 800 per
month, aud this was my reason for
bnying the home, My children have
not been educated in Europe,
though | have tried to educate
them well and I hope this is nc
crime, Ny youngest daughter, al
ter all the others had finished schoo
went to Europe in company with
the family Of my friend, Capt Lang,
of Texas, when he went there as a
Consul, and staid there one year tc
study French-she having studieC
French one year in this country,
and | hoped to make her knowledge
of it valuable by year in France,
This is the whole truth, ! have
written hastily, and must say that
! am grateful to my friends lol
their vindicat tion Of my good name,
but it does seem strange to me that
people will, by insinuatious, under
take to make people believe false
hoods which they will not them
selves dare assert
From this above it will be seer
that Senator Jones has been mis-
represented by Clarke's stool pig.
cons" the Helena World, Ft Smith
Democrat, ct al, and they have
been reprimanded time and again
by the press of the State for their
improper aud uncaled for conduct,
Senator Jones is poor man to-
day, although he might have been
a millionaire like Senator Sherman,
but for his integrity of character
and honesty Of purpose. He has
only been able to save out Of his sal
airy, ~, 900 to pay on his home, dur,
ing the time he has served as Sena-
tor He might have saved more
but for the high cost of h'mg at
the National Capital and the ne
cessity (made SO 10y CUSTOM of en-
tertaiuing his friends and constitu-
ency there,
The people ought to speak in
thunder tones condemndtory Of any
candidate or newspaper, who tries
to beSmirch character as attempt
ed by the Clarke newspapers
Now, that we have furnished
complete proof to the Clarke pa
pers that they have misrepresented
Senator Jones, let them be manly
enough to say they have been in
the wrong, beg pardon for their
misdoimg, and as far as possible,