Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-29
Democrats of the Toledo
District
Will Endorse Mayor Jones Fol
Congress.

Petitions are now in circulation in
the Toledo district for the nomina-
tion of Mayor Jones as an independent
candidate for Congress. The candida
cy of the Mayor for that Office will be
endorsed by the Democrats of the To
ledo district. The Toledo Bee, one of
Toledo's Democratic newspapers, is
urging the Democrats of the district
to give this endorsement.
A few days ago Hon. l.. A. Russell,
of Cleveland, wrote a letter to Mayor
Jones asking that he come out into the
open and let his friends know whom
he will support for President. To this
letter the Mayor has made the follow
ing reply, which is sufficient to con
vince any one that he intends to sup
port Mr.. Bryan:
Mr.. L. A. Russell, Cleveland, o.
MY Dear Friend; Your kind letter
came duly to hand, and l have been
looking for an opportunity to give 1t
a., IL.,,oI,4 +t,,4 ;te iu,nortance de-
serves before replying, but seemingly,
am as busy today as the day it came;
however. YOU are entitled to some kind
of an answer, so here goes.
With the theology of the first par
agraph of your letter agree exactly.
"With God truth) there is no time,
no space; 1t is an everlasting now, an
ever-present here" ! cannot agree
with YOU that the teaching that Jesus
emphasized that is, the golden rule
has only slightly colored history. |
think that truth has made an ineffa-
ceable mark on the race, and that the
effect of the teaching is going forward
by leaps and bounds; so that we are
today, Notwithstanding the rule of
greed and gold" thousand times bet
fer than we were even few hundred
years ago.
II is wise to look at "things as they
are and things as they should be- and
no effort in the interest of truth ever
has been, or ever will be, lost, no mat
ter about the incoming and dreaming
Pilates question, what is truth?'' is
still the only important one; with that
once settled, no man need be in doubt
as to duty.
do not agree with you that parties
are fact" unless | admit that fig
ment is a fact. think as they are sup
posed to exist, they are mere myth.
Machines, organizations are a fact.
Our history is filed with instances that
prove that parties do not own. or con
troll or have any permanent hold upon
the people. ] admit that to some ex-
tent they have been useful in the de
velopment process of passing from
government by kings and queens to
free government of the people, and, so
far as | am concerned, We are now
at the point that may be called the
passing of the parties.
/ feel, as l expressed myself many
times in last falls campaign, that 1t
is not n question of WINNINGS; it is
only a question of being right You
know, AS well as |, that the right is
constantly gaining ground. | believe
that my mission, If | have any, is to
stand for this truth and to proclaim
the new politics that believe In, to
everlastingly preach principles rather
than parties and persons, and nothing
is clearer to me than this III there is
not distinction or difference enough
between the principles represented by
these alleged parties so that the sim
Pile statement of the principles one be-
lieves in would Indicate whom he is
for, then 1t is clear the difference Is
unworthy Of consideration, aud ii real