The Van Buren press., 1896-06-13
Senator Jones of Arkansas for Chair
man Of the National Committee.

Everything points to the senior
Senator Of Arkansas as the leader of the
Democratic hosts in the coming
campaign. A more conservative and
ADLER conductor of the canvass cannot
be found. The Post Dispatch and
Republic Washington correspondent
speaks in glowing terms of the man of
all men to lead the Democratic free
silver forces in November.
The st. Louis Post says:
The Post Dispatch s suggestion that
one result of the nomination of a free
silver Democrat on a free silver platform
at Chicago will be the transfer of
national headquarters from New York
to St. Louis or Chicago is already bear
ing fruit In Washington and else
where the political leaders accept it as
a foregone conclusion.
It is probable that the National Con-
vention will give instructions to this
effect to the new Democratic National
Committee. Under the old order of
things the Democratic campaign
conferred upon New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut. In the coming
campaign those states will be allowed
to go where they belong and the fight
will be for Ohio. Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Iowa and the states west of
the Mississippi River.
The name of Senator James K. Jones,
of Arkansas, is suggested for Chairman
of the National Committee under the
new order of things, and a better
selection could not be made. Ofeourse,
in accordance with custom, the wishes
of the nominee for President will be
consulted in this matter. There Is
little doubt, however, that any man
nominated for President on free silver
ticket will be delighted to avail himself
of Senator Jones services in that
capacity.
Senator Jones would make an ideal
chairman. He has splendid physical
health. His vigor and energy are
irrepressible. His capacity for work is
enormous. He is man of profound
convictions He is in thorough
sympathy with the purposes and objects
of the campaign.
He is a man of the people, in close
touch with the people, and the triumph
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the Democratic party is largely due to
his work.
st. Louis Republic says:
The name of Senator James K. Jones,
of Arkansas, is frequently mentioned as
the leader of the next campaign He is
recognized as man of large executive
ability in political matters and as one of
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leaders of the Senate. 1t has been
largely due to Senator Jones quiet but
effectual effort that the enormous mass
of free coinage literature has been
distributed over the country during the
past four months, and that complete
canvass of the various debatable states
has been made without arousing the
of the sound money Demo-
Gratis. SenatorIJ ones is popular among
his Democratic associates. He is man
of strong convictions and of indefati
gable industry.
1t has been practically decided that
the headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee shall be located
west of the Allegheny mountains,
probably in Chicago or st. Louis.
There is bitter antipathy to New York
and the East ON the TART of the free
coinage leaders. They assert that to
locate headquarters again in New York
would be to surround the committee
with their bitterest enemies in the
party, to hamper its work and to afford
information to its political opponents.
The men who are engineering the
Chicago Convention and who will have
the strongest influence with the new
National Committee, declare that little
financial aid is to be expected from the
East in the campaign which will soon
open, and that al the interests of the
party demand the headquarters shall be
placed in a state where both wealth and
public sentiment favor the PRONUNCIATION
Of the silver propaganda and which will
be at the same time adjacent to those
states which will be classed as doubtful
and form the chief battle grounds of the
contest. These, they declare, will be
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska and Kansas. They are in
;lined to concede Ohio, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and perhaps Minnesota to the
advocates of sound money, but with
,hese exceptions and the states hereto
fore named as doubtful, claim in
advance every state west of the
and south of the Potomac
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