The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-10-04

tallic forces would win great victory"
His declaration that the principles
i of 1896 are Absolutely essential to the
welfare OF the country"
i The man who advocated the gold
standard denounced as mo better than
a vile thief
/ (From the address Of United States
Senator James K. Jones, Chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
before the Legislature of Arkansas)
Hundreds of thousands of ignorant
foreigners, who were here taking the
bread out of the mouths of honest la
Dor, voted at the last election at the
] dfctstion of McKinley's supporters.
! These foreigners comprised fully one
half of the number of votes received by
Mckinley" s;a..
These are the words Of the man who
conducted the Democratic campaign in
1896. The same man is the present
Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee. He owes his position to
the wish of Mr.. Bryan.
The language quoted above was used
In a speech 1t is no remembered scrap
of idle conversation. 1t was uttered in
no heat of discussion. 1t was DELHI
crate expression.
Hundreds of thousands of ignorant
foreigners" said Chairman James K.
Jones of the Democratic National Com
mittee, "who came here taking the
bread out Of the mouths of honest la
Dor. voted at the last election at the
dctation of McKinley's supporters.
These foreigners comprised fully one.
half of the number of votes received by
McKinley."
And then, on the basis that the Re-
publican party owed success in 1896 to
Ignorant foreigners Chairman Jones
proceeded to hold out the hope of sue
cess in 1900.
"Can there be any doubt" he asked
"as to which shall prevail. the six and
one-half millions of intelligent Bryan
voters, or the three and one-half mill
ions of ignorant foreigners who voted
for McKinley?'
| It would seem to sensible people al
most incredible that the Chairman of
the Democratic National COMMITTEES
could make such statements in pub
lie speech. But the. Honorable James
K. Jones did it.
More than two months after the cleo
ton of 1896 he uttered the assertions
quoted. 90.
The occa sion was no less serious than
an address before the Legisla ture of
Arkansas. Senator Jones had just been
elected to his third term in the United
States senate. On the Goth of January,
1887, the senator apreared before an in.
formal ici~t session of his State Legis-
lature ct the Capitol in Little Rock.
He returned his thanks to the people
of ArlSsrsas THROUGH their represent
atires tie Legislature. and then he
proceeded to discuss the defeat of Brv-
an, soeaking as the Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee and
the Head of the Mana cement of the
Democratic campaign. He said that he
Relieved DevoutIv that Bryan Had
Been Elected ara Was Swindled Out
Of the Presidency
He declared his belief that in 1900
the bimetalIic forces would win great
victory This still makes 16 to l the
paramount issue.
He reass erted his conviction "that
the principles he spoke for were abso-
lutely essential to the welfare of the
That is 16 to 1.
The Sens tor spoke for over an hour.
Running through his speech were two
principal thoughts. One was this idea
that Republican success had been
achieved through the Ignorant For
eigners." a result which the Senator
in the name of the native
Southern population which was more
The other central idea with the SEN
atoi was the injustice of the unequal !
of wealth. Upon this he |
iwelt with almost the emphasis which |
he gave to the Ignorant Foreigners
What has been the cause of this
great struggle?" the Senator asked.
THE people are as honest and indus
.rious is they ever were. What, then,
vas the matter? The last census re-
BORT shows that the wealth of the cum
,ry was S65. O000 600 900. or about $1,000
% each family of five members. The
Senator quoted figures to show the in
equality of the distribution of wealth.
Why was Massa chusetts so much bet
er off than Arkansas? Were they more
Industrious and more deserving? He
considered that the Southern people
'ank fully up to-. if not ahead of the
people in the balance of the country.
rhe Southern people are more COM
,letely Anglo-Saxon than those of the
,ther states, and. therefore, more
American"
At this point the Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee made
me of the most remarkable of this Sc
les of startling statements for Arkan-
las consumption. He illustrated his
assertion that the Southern people are
more American" than the rest of the
country in this way:
ut took the people of the combined
North and the East four years to con-