The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19
ITISSILV Err
That is Issue of Next
Campaign.
JONES' MANIFESTO.
He ThrowsDown the Gaunt-
let to Croker.

James K. Jones, chairman of the dem
ocratic national committee, is not in
accord with Mr.. Croker of New York,
and Mr.. Wall of Wisconsin, regarding
the paramount issue in the next presi-
Dental campaign. He said today:
',To say that the next democratic ma
tional convention will reaffirm the po-
sition taken by the convention in 1885,
is to assert what every candid man,
even slightly familiar with existing
facts, knows to be true. 1t is as GER
tain as anything human can be, that
the question of bimetallism will be
the leading issue in the campaign Of
!. next year. And 1t is reasonable to
!, expect that the majority of the people
!; will next time declare for the party
; which means what it says and will re-
deem it's pledges, and that they will
not again be tricked into casting their
, votes in favor of the enemies Of the
principles in which they believe"
"On what grounds do you base your
: hopes for success next year,? he was
asked.
Some of the reasons why 1 am
: strongly hopeful of the future of our
| cause are as follows: In the campaign
of 1896 both parties declared for BIZ
metallsm; the democrats for independ-
ent action by the United States, the re-
! publicans for an International agree
ment. which they pledged themselves
to promote True, this declaration
on the part of the republicans was only
: rlade to catch votes, and because the
{ party leaders did not dare to go to the
polls without It, l think now no one
any longer doubts that the fixed pur-
: pose OF those who controlled these lead
u ers was to maintain the gold stand
= ard ana to prevent, not promote, an
I international agreement. The decla-
a ration, however, served its purpose,
e and vast numbers of sincere bimetal-
D lists were persuaded to vote the re-
/ publican ticket, in the belief that they
y were voting for an honest effort to Sc
IL cure international bimetallism. The
s. leaders who were responsible for this
y trick have already committed then
p party to the single gold standard, Sc
A far as they can and if they dare speak
II out honestly in their next nationa
l. platform it will declare for the single
VI gold standard"
IS do you believe that the cause Of
/. bmetallism is improving?"
d There are as many believers in BIZ
re metallism today in the United States
/ as there ever We're, and all these are
u doubtless now convinced that the only
p way to accomplish binetallism is
he through the action of the democratic
De party The great effort to stop the fal
As of prices-the shrinking of values an6
to relieve the distress of business re-
sulting from these great evils, without
doing injustice or injury to any class
Of business, is being more and more
understood, and commands the reSpec
of honest and fair men always wheI
I understood, and another campaign o.
u ridicule and abuse such as that of 1881
whether dictated by ignorance Of
venalty-cannot succeed against tenn
perate arguments and appeals for sim
pie justice, when the people have TIM
IN to fairly weigh the arguments and form
rs a deliberate judgment. There was grea
nv unrest and dissatisfaction in 1879
:, throughout the country, resulting from
falling prices and shrinking values
w The republican party promised that i
they were entrusted with power all Till
D. would be changed, and that prosperft.
of should succeed existing conditions. MI
"a Mckinley and The gold press now as
60 sure the country that we have pros
90 perity. There is quite a boom in stool
nm speculations in Wall street, but Wal
nd street is not the country, as we believe
II, A great famine and short crop o
&C wheat all over the world except in tn
ad United States naturally raised the pric
iv of wheat while these conditions LASTED
nd and the beneficent effects of this tenn
" porary advance in the price of a singl
o. article, which was so marked in tn
9e short period it continued, is likely t
stimulate a desire for a return to tina
condition permanently and an exten
sion of 1t to all other products. This
our purpose, as was our purpose in 1885,
when the republican party denounce
mo- any effort to increase prices as a crime
% How do you account for the activit
in business?"
There has been necessarily an in
V" creased demand for labor within tn
d last few morxths as the result of tn
To- withdrawal of large numbers of Amer
ed can citizens from the ordinary walks {
Il, life to be employed in the army, who's
MS places had to be filled. There has ais
been an increased activity in and
ar demand for all products which Wen
3oo necessary to the maintenance and SUI
~ port of a large army. But all these cor
~ dftions are in the very nature OF thinf
80 temporary, and all Of us know that the
,J must pass away with the end of II
~ conditions which brought them into lif
nj Making due allowance for the infiuent
re of these three causes on the presel
a. condition of the country there Is toda
"a as much dissatisfaction and as muc
-, cause for it as there was in 1896 No r.
az, lief was or is to be expected under r.
~ publican management except such
-I.,l
~ home A condition of constantly fallir
nc general prices is everywhere recognize
80 as a condition of distress and hal
times, and speculation excitement
X. Wall street does not change this. v
believe that a small volume of mono
forces prices down, hence we ha'
ys urged the coinage of our silver as We
as of our gold, not only to check tn
grinding fall in prices, but to promo
or steadily advancing prices"
ate Then you think the Chicago pla
or form is gaining ground?"
Il most certainly do, In the electio
III Of last year the PRINCIPLES of that pla
to form were not the leading and excl
va sive issues in all sections of the cou
hi try. These were partially ubscured
;sor many states and districts. The que
,ro- ton of bimetallsm, tie republican
4 tn, fort to retire the yree1backs and
Gu confer upon the national banks t
neil absolute control Of the volume of p
der. per money, and to surrender the cou
ling try to the trusts, were, in many sc
sion tions, for the time being, lost sight
clu- in the excitement Of the war and
resulting questions, and in others tn