Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-09-13
A VERDICT ON JONES.
Philadelphia Press. I

When Chairman Jones, of the Demo
cratic National Committee, heard that bis
home county in Arkansas had gone Re-
publican in last Mondays election he is
reported as remarklng THAT county
always goes Republican, any way" That
is not true. In 1896, Hampstead county,
the county in which Mr.. Jones resides,
gave Bryan 629 plurality, and in the cleo
ton for Governor two years ago it gave the
Democratic candidate 65S plurality. That
shows how near the truth Chairman Jones
usually gets.
This same Mr.. Jones was chairman of
the Democratic National Committee in
1896 and naturally felt core over the losing
fight he made. He went home to Arkan-
sas and in a speech before the Legislature
of that State, delivered January 20, 1897,
he tried to explain Bryan's defeat by say
ing Hundreds of thousands of ignor.
ant foreigners, who were here taking the
bread out of the mouths of honest labor,
voted at the last election at the dctation
of McKinleY's supporters. These foreign
ers comprise fully one.half of the number
of votes received by Mr.. Mckinley" And
then looking forward to 1900 he held out
this hope of Democratic success "Can
there be any doubt as to which shall pre-.
vail, the six and one-half millions of intel.
ligent Bryan voters, or the three and one
half millions of foreigners who voted for
Mckinley ?" Chairman Jones is now ap-
pealing to these same Ignorant foreign.
ers" to support Bryan for election.
Chairman Jones has posed before the
country as "poor but honest" He has
sedulously propagated that idea by con-
stantIy inveighing against the "money
power" and "monopolies. 1t will be
some surprise to the country to know that
MIR. Jones is put down in the financial
"red book" as one of the twenty-sx mil
lionaires of Arkansas and that he is a lead
ing partner in a gigantic monopoly known
as the American Round Bale Cotton Com
panv. The financing partner of the COM
pany is Sugar Magnate Searles. The COM
pany owns enough of the patents on the
machine to practically enjoy exclusive con-
troll of that method of baling cotton. The
company manufactures the round bale cot
ton compress, but it does not sell the ma
chimes. Therein ia the monopoly princi-
pie. The machines are leased. The com.
pany retains the ownership. For each
bale compressed with one of these ma
chimes the company requires royalty of
90 cents per 100 pounds. The machines
costs less than $1,000 to build, and are
good for from $1,000 to $4,000 in royalties
season.
The Mr.. Jones who is getting rich out of
this monopoly is the same Chairman Jones
who is trying to elect Mr.. Bryan on plat
form declaring that eve pledge the Demo.
cratic party to an unceasing warfare in
nation, State and city against private mo-
nopoly of every FORM" And the came
Chairman Jones who is making filings at
the Ignorant foreigners" is the official
head of the party which has always claim
ed to cast a majority of the forelgn-born
vote. 1t may be that the incongruty in
Chairman Jones' attitudes had something
to do with the overturning of the Demo.
cratic majority in Hampstead county,
Ark, last Monday and the returning of
majority. The country may
see things in the same light, also, and give
a similar verdict on Jones in November.