The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-23
LIKE OLD ARKlNSAW
SENATOR JONES is RIGHT AT HOME
In THIS MINNESOTA BANANA
BELT
DEMOCRATS PARTY LEADER

Now Visiting His Daughter I'm Min
neapO1is 49, Talks Interestingly
About the Issues OF I9OO-SentI-
ment Against the Mckinley I'm
perinIistic Policy Is CrystnlIizing
-LawtOn's Death fn Line OF Duty,
Senator A. K. jones' of Arkansas, chair
man of the Democratic national commit
tee, was prepared to brave the rigors OF
a Northern winter when he alighted from
train in Minneapolis yesterday True
there was no snow on the ground but
the senator at least expected that on leav-
Ing the train he would find 1t biting cold
without. So he buttoned his overeoat
closely and turned up his collar so high
that it concealed his ears. In about forty
seconds he began to perspire, and then it
dawned upon him that the weather was
warm.
Il came here expecting to find it sew
eral degrees below zero" he explained,
'and I was agreeably surprised to find
the weather almost as balmy as that of
Arkansas.
Senator Jones came direct from Wash
He Is visiting his daughter. Mrs p, w.
Plant, of 1880 Hennepin avenue, and will
be in Minneapolis until after Christmas,
returning to Washington for the reassem-
bling of congress.
At this distance he thinks there Is
every assurance that the Democratic
party will be triumphant at the polls
next November.
Wherever 1 have BEEN he said. the
conditions seem to augur success for the
Democratic party. I have no means of
knowing what the exact sentiment Is
elsewhere, but, from the reports which
have received, it seems hopeful. The
great tide of public feeling appears to
be setting In against this administration,
and it is growing daily
What do you think will be the domi-
nant issue during the next campaign"
1 am not prepared to say. 1 have no
means of knowing. Antitrust and anti
imperialism will no doubt be very impor-
tant issues. Bimetallism Will also be
live issue It IS hard to say which of
these will be subordinated, but I think
they are apt to command an equal
amount of attention
There is still another important issue
which l think will be brought before the
people next time 1t will have to do with
the fraudulent use of money in further
country are getting tired of continually
hearing 1t charged that elections are he
ing controlled by the money power, with
out having the facts sifted out IF it is
a fact that the outcome of elections are
being thus influenced the people want to
know It, and I think a movement will be
set on foot next time to accomplish that
result-to stop the Illegal use of money
during elections. Some sort of law COW
mo fhn y
pect.
There is great and growing sentf-
ment among the American people TODAY
against the fmperiaIfstic policy of the Nc
kinney administration There are large
aeeessions to the ranks Of the anti-irY1-
perfalists on all hands every day.A A true.
understanding of our present position In
the Philippines is beginning to strike
home to every true American heart I
am myself an ardent antf-imperialist I
believe that a. continuance Of the policy
of expansion will prove disastrous to this
country IN the end. In the first place it
is un-Amertcan. 1t is not in accord with
the fundamental principles of our gov
eminent"
DO you think the war should be prose-
cuted. now that it has progressed so far,
until there Is a cessation of hestiities?"
Certainly not. There is no sense in
L
honest course for this government to pur-
sue is to announce to the Filfpines now,
without further delay. that we propose to
keep the promise made to them before the
outbreak, that, in helping them shake off
the tyranny of Spain, we would also as
sist them to establish a government of
their own. We should assure them that
our attitude toward them IS identical
with that which we have taken toward
Cuba.
The position taken by the Fflipinos-
is precisely like that taken by this coun-
try when it ceased to be a struggling COL
ony of Great Britain. The position which
we took was that that government is no
government which is derived without the
consent of the governed. Great Britain
took the same stand toward us that we
are now taking against the Philippines.
She declared that we were not fit for
government. That was the argument
used by Lord North and George III If
we persist in denying the Filipinos self
government or refuse to consider that
vital question until they have been thor
oughly subjugated, then we have reached
that point where we must admit that the
Declaration OF independence was a fail
ure,
Il am confident that there would have
been a very different outcome to our
operations in the Philippines If a clause
similar TO that with reference to Cuba
defining our purpose in the Philippines,
had been inserted in the original war
resolution. In that clause it was laid
down distinctly that our intervention was
solely In the interests Of Cuban self gov