Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-14
What Senator Jones of Arkansas
Says on the Question.
THE SOUTH WOULD OPPOSE ANY man
Sound Money Democrats Disturbed
About the Kentucky Situation.
COURAGE OF SILVER MEN

The sound money democrats are some
what disturbed over the Kentucky situa-
ton. Their information is that the silver
| men are making a very active canvass of
| the Ctate and are in decidedly confident
mood There has been an appeal to Mr..
| Carlisle to take the stump again, and he
would promptly have responded but for the
| necessity of remaining here to prepare his
| testimony in the bond investigation proceed
| ing. He may go later and if he should he
| will probably speak in several of the prin-
| cipal towns
| Silver Men Have PIucked Up Courage.
The silver men in the blue grass country
| have plucked up fresh courage as the re-
| suit of silver successes in neighborng sill
| yer strongholds. Tennessee, Missouri, Ala
bama and Arkansas have all declared for
free coinage. Virginia and North Carolina
! are certain to follow suit. Illinois and In
diana are claimed by that side, and Ohio is
at least to be stubbornly contested by the
| friends of silver. Surrounded thus by an
enemy flushed with triumph, the sound
money democrats in Kentucky have a col
oSsal Job on hand. Mr.. Carlisle is a strong
! man home, despite the history he made
| in the Blackburn contest. He would De
stronger if he were an avoWed candidate
| for the Chicago nominal ton, for then the
matter of state pride would enter more
| largely into the question. But even as the
| case stands, he commands the attention
| Of his party in Kentucky to a greater de-
gree than any other man, and his friends
| believe that half a dozen speeches from him
delivered prior to the mass county conVen-
| tons, which to be held on the 3oth IN
stant would be highly effective in the
| sound money cause.
The silver men declare that their Siie IS
recovering from the Mi :nigan disaster
| They express the belief that 1t will, in the
end, prove helpful. 1t is serving, they say,
| to put the silver leaders on their guard
elsewhere, and to subject all credentials; to
an unusually rigid examination. II has de-
Veloped ar. Vest as a critic of ottlc a-io!d-
ers active politicians, and this note is
expected to swell into a chorus, well led, 10y
the time national convention day arrives.
Comment continues respc ting the f,t!l-
ure Of either faction 10 rally TO any one
standard for the presidential nomination.
The sound money mer IN their cCnVcn-
tiGns are cheering favo-ite sons, vii n but
very little Significance, and the free cCin-
age men are similarly engaged. Tine third
term looms large, but as yet it lacks an
authorized spokesman.
What senator Jones Says.
A representative of The Star asked Scna-
tor Jones Of Arkansas today why the II zee
coinage men were not uniting candi-
date
I'VE are trying to keep personalities en-
tirely out of the contest he replied. I'VE
are fighting for principle We are not
laboring 10 ADJUST platform TO any IN
divduaiS views and record vi the inten-
ton of afterward naming him as the can
d!date to stand on it, We want 4 platform
which shall represent the convictions of
the party. When We shall have secured
that, ii will he time enough to consider the
question of a candidate. It will not be off
ticult to find him. The democratic party
has fine field to chose ron. Bat the
Platforms the thing"
The Third Term Question.
Mr.. Jones was asked about the third
term proposition.
Il have no idea what the Presidents in
tentions are" he replied. There IS a good
deal of talk. One hardly knows what to
believe on the subject. A great many peo-
pie have been expecting deliverance from
MIN, and quite as many people have he
Eeved that he ought to make one. My own
opinion about the matter is that he could
| not carry single southern state South
ern democrats are opposed to Mr.. Cleveland
On the money question, and on the third
term question they would oppose any man.
He would be the weakest man before the
people the party could put up"