The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-12
The Chairman Abroad.

YNDER New YORK GATE, an assoc
ciated-press dispatch printed
yesterday morning quoted ex-
Governor Stone of Missouri in denial
of the rumor that Senator James K.
Jones, chairman of the national dem
ocratic committee, is about to resign.
Governor Stone refers to a letter in
which Senator Jones writes that his
health has improved and that he will
soon return from his vacation spent
in Europe.
Senator Jones managed the Bryan
campaign of 1896. He is a longtime,
unyelding advocate of silvers restor-
alton. He was a leader among the
democrats whose views found express
sion in the policy adopted at the Chi
cago convention, three years ago. In
the campaign of that year he had the
fearful odds to face with which the
citizens of this country are acquainted.
He was deserted by some of the best
known democrats in the United States,
men who hitherto had had most to
say-all the say, indeed-respecting
like.
Then, too, acting for a party whose
rich men were largely in the ranks of
the deserters, Mr.. Jones had to COM
bat the measureless amounts of money
which Mark Hanna, the rival chair
man, was able to get for the asking
Under the circumstances, the senator
had more to show in the way of votes
cast at the polls than is the record of
any man who ever managed a national
campaign in the United States-when
candid account is taken of all the cir
For one thing. the sturdy, unques-
toned personal integrity of Senator
Jones went for much with those who
loyalty followed his leadership. He
was looked up to as a captain who
could be implicitly trusted. No man
doubted his sincerity or his complete
devotion to the cause that carried the
day in the Chicago conventions; no
man harbored the shadow of a sus-
pcion respecting the uses to which
he would put whatever reached him in
the way of legitimate campaign re-
sources.
Since 1885, Mr. Jones has been a men,
Der of the federal senate-his present
term runs until March, 1903 He had
formerly served three terms in the
house. In public life his is reputa-
ton without stain, or the hint of sus-
picion. At the age of sixty he is a
man whose total belongings are barely
a competency; his means are modest;
his manner of life exemplary--indeed.
it can be said that, in every item, his
life, in all of its social aspects, is alb
solutely above criticism. Last Feb
ruary the friends of Senator Jones
were shocked when the announcement
went out from Washington that he
was threatened with physical col
lapse. For time no news that was
reassuring came from his WASHINGTON
home Later on, however he rallied
in a gratifying way and, soon after the
adjournment of congress, on the urgent
recommendation of his physician, the
senator concluded to put the Atlantic
ocean between himself and the posi-
bility of official cares.
The press dispatch printed yester-
day morning brings gratifying news
from him. OF like import is a letter
dated at Lucerne and received two
days ago from the senator by Mr.
Bartine, of the staff of the Standard
The Standard is permitted to quote
paragraph from this letter in which
Senator Jones writes: Il am aston
ished at my apparent Improvement. I
did not believe it possible that such
results could come from rest-I have
rested, sure enough, and / have i'm
proved almost beyond belief. What
may happen when I begin work again,
l can't tell, but 1t seems to me that
l shall return well and sound. l have
had most delightful trip. 1 sailed
with misgivings; I feared my poor
wife might have to take my body back
with her, but l am full of hope and
confidence now. l spent two weeks In
Ireland with Mr.. Frewen and at his
home. I cannot begin to tell you how
delightful it was, but it was as in
structive as pleasant. In England.
Belgium, Germany and here, | have
had delightful time. l think I shall
be in New York about the first of Sep
tember."