The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-21

Following is Mayor Jones statement In
full, entitled MY Political Attitude as
to Chicago from Toledo:
During the past six weeks few petit
lions have been in circulation in different
parts Of the Ninth congressional district
of Ohio asking me to become non
partisan candidate for congress.
IL had nothing to do with instigating or
aiding this matter, directly or indirectly.
/ am a non-partsan and have passed be-
You'd the party machine idea, and believe
in the new politics, where candidates VIII
be nominated by direct petition of the
people without the party machinery OF
caucuses. primaries, conventions, dele
gated authority or other paraphernalia OF
bosslsiu.
LAS best know how have been stead
lastly true to the non partisan idea with
respect to this movement. Desiring not
to influence the signing of the petitions,
have carefully refraned FROM slyng
whom 1 am for is the interesting National
campaign now on; at the same time 1
have never failed to say what / am tor.
although no sympathetic work has
been done to secure names to these petit
tiuns, several thousand voters have signed
them, many times more than a suftcent
number TO warrant the belief that, under
ordinary circumstances 1t would be my
duty to stand as a candidate and furnish a
practical example of the workings OF tho
new political system that Is destined 10
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
II partisan, according to the crack of the
party whip. Patriotism and partyism can
not abide together.
Under existing circumstances do NOT
make 1t my duty to become candidate,
but l believe the time has arrived when
it is my duty to state my position with re-
spect 10 the issues of the Nat. onal cam
psign so clearly that none VINO care 10
know may nave any doubt as to where
Jones stands
|lt do this as a candidate, the purity
ana sincerity of my purposes may be ques-
toned therefore. in order to remove all
doubt as to my motives, | must decline to
serve as candidate in this campaign. that
ny so doing the personal element may DO
removed and my efforts and influence be
taken at their true value in behalf of
principle.
Lincoln said that our government was
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are crea ed
equal In every fiber of my being | be-
lieve IN equality; and | believe that any
social or political structure, to be endur-
ing, must be built with a strict reg I'd
tor this principle SO fundamental to a race
OF beings who are the children of one
common father
Il have no fear that our Republic VIII
be converted into an empire. My fatn
IN the integrity and patriotism at the heart
of the Nation is too well founded to
harbor such a dread. / believe that I'M
perialism is the logical sequence of mill
tarlsm and partyism and this i'll gotten
trio il the leg innate fruit OF the spirit OF
bosslsm that has been SO dominant In our
political history during the past twenty
nve years; and all these-partyism, boss
ism, militarism and imperialism-are a
hat-footed denial of the principle of equal
lily and an assertion of the right OF the
selI-styled superior classes to govern the
rest. This is the ancient heresy of the
N'''hN ii6ht VI hAi5o IN another lOTm.
believe the position Of the admins
tration with respect to the Philippine wa,
is denial of equality and contradiction
OF the principles of human liberty set
torth in the preamble of the Declaration
OF independence. | have turned the sub.
lcct over in my mind for months | nav,
studied every phase OF il, to the extent
OF my ability. and, with all due respect
Tor the men who are ny the governing
and for many friends who are In sympath,
with them, candor compels me to saw thai
can see nothing but danger and disaster
that is certain to overwhelm the Republic
II this policy is continued.
Il can not see how we can be a Repub.
lie OF sovereign equals while holding
colonial dependencies after subjugatinl
them by force of arms. | hold that moth.
ing is superior to human rights.
believe with Charles Sumner tina
, anything for human rights is constitu.
llohal. No learning in books. no skill &C.
9ulIeu IN courts, no sharpness of forensi,
u'aleet' no cutting and splitting of hairs
can impair the vigor thereof. This is tn,
supreme law of the land anything in tn,
constitution or laws of the State to thu
contrary notwithstanding.
can see no safe basis upon which W,
can nope to build up governmental
structure other than the consent Of tn,
/ governed do not want to govern a per.
son SIMPLY because he is weaker than |
anu am very sure that | can never con
! cent 10 let another govern me because h.
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S nave made an especial study of the cues
5 ZION are weighed IL seams almost cartat,