Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-26
FOR BRYAN.
DECLARATION OF GOLDEN RULE
JONES OF TOLEDO.
IS AGAINST mckinley
In a Letter to the Public He Cannot
lndorse the Policy of Empire
With the Philippines.

| Chicago, Il.-(Special )-Samuel NJ.
Jones, mayor of Toledo, o., and known
! as Golden Rule" Jones. has made
public a letter in which he announces
| his determination to vote for William
]. Bryan. Mayor Jones was the inde-
pendent candidate for governor of Ohio
last year and received more than 100, 900
votes. He has a very strong personal
following, and it is generally believed
that his declaration insures Ohio for
the Bryan column.
Mr.. Jones letter follows:
During the past six weeks a few
petitions have been in circulation in
Inherent parts of the Ninth congression-
al district of Ohio, asking me to be-
come a nonpartisan candidate for con-
gress. L had nothing to do with insti-
eating or aiding this matter directly
or indirectly. l am nOnpartisan and
nave passed beyond the party machine
idea and believe in the new politics,
where candidates will be nominated by
direct petition Of the people without
the party machinery of caucuses. pri-
maries, conventions, delegated authority
or other paraphernalia of boSsiSm. AS
lastly true to the nonpartisan idea with
respect to this movement. Desiring not
to influence the signing of the petitions,
have carefully refrained from saying
whom l am for in the interesting ma
tional campaign now on At the same
time L have never failed to say what
am for. Although no systematic
work has been done to secure names to
these petitions. several thousand voters
have signed them, many times more
than sufficient number to warrant
the belief that under ordinary circum-
stances it would be my duty to stand
as candidate and furnish a practical
example of the workings of the new po-
litical system that is destined to deliver
US from the slavery of partyism and
make every voter always free to vote as
patriot according to the dictates of an
enlightened conscience, rather than as
partisan according to the crack of the
party whip. Patriotism and partyism
cannot abide together.
MUST BE SINCERE
Under existing circumstances I do
not think the demand so pronounced
as to make it my duty to become a
candidate, but / believe the time has
arrived when it is my duty to state my
position with respect to the issues of
the national campaign so clearly that
none who care to know may have any
doubt as to Where Jones stands If
| do this as a candidate the purity and
sincerity of my purposes may be ques-
toned; therefore, in order to remove all
doubt as to my motives, 1 must decline
to serve as a candidate in this cam
paign, that by so doing the personal ell
ement may be removed and my efforts
and influence be taken at their true
value in behalf of a principle.
Lincoln said that our government
was conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are Gre
ated equal In every fiber of my be-
ing l believe in equality, and I believe
that any social or political structure, to
be enduring, must be built with a strict
regard for this principle, so funda-
mental to a race of beings who are the
children of one common father.
Il have no fear that our republic will
be converted into an empire. My faith
in the integrity and patriotism at the
heart of the nation is too we'll founded
to harbor such a dread. / believe that
Imperialism is the logical sequence of
militarism and partyism, and this ill
gotten trio is the legitimate fruit of
the spirit of bosSism that has been so
dominant in our political history dur
ing the last twenty-five years, and all
these-partyism, bossism, militarism,
and imperialism-are f1at-footed de-
nial of the principal of equality and an
assertion of the right of the self
styled superior classes to govern the
rest; this is an ancient heresy of the
divine right of kings in another form.
WRONG PRINCIPLES.
Il believe the position of the admin
istration with respect to the Philippine
war is a denial of equality and a con-
tradiction of the principles of human
liberty set forth in the preamble of
the declaration of independence. l have
turned the subject over in my mind for
months; / have studied every phase of
it to the extent of my ability, and with
all due respect for the men who are
doing the governing and for many
friends who are in sympathy with them,
candor compels me to say that / can
see nothing but danger and disaster
that are certain to overwhelm the re-
public if this policy is continued. l
cannot see how we can be a republic of
sovereign equals while holding colonial
dependencies after subjugating them
by force of arms.
My hope for the future of America
and the race is found in my faith in the
good 6he Cod in my fellow human be,
ings-in the patriotism of the whole,
This faith is justified by all history and
a lifetime of experience and nothing
will ever swerve me from it. The spon-
taneous response of the people of
America to the appeals in behalf of the
stricken citizens of Galveston is the
latest demonstration of the divine i'm
pulse at the heart of humanity that
only waits the opportunity to find ex-
preston to sweep away all lines of d.
vision, wipe out all marks of political
social or religious distinction and ac
cept all humanity into one common
mass.
Our quadrennial elections should be
considered as occasions for silently reg
istering the public WILL they are. indeed,
Il time when we make sort of barom-
etrical reading of the public conscience.
l think it is both misleading and mis-
chieyous to refer to our elections as
political battles
BRYAN IS RIGHT
Great fights and warlike terms OF
that class. l regard the ballot as
sacrament rather than as an implement
of wrfare, and when enter the booth
to administer the sacrament of my bal
lot shall use my best endeayor to re-
cord my conscience in favor of equality
and against war, in favor of love and
reason rather than war and revenge,
and / shall vote for William ] Bryan
as the best way I know of giving ex-
preston to these sentiments. believing
him to be the candidate who most
nearly represents, not the high ideals
of few great souls who have a clear
vision of the perfected social state. but
L. ~,