Sharp County record., 1901-10-18

are not willing to have examined into
by actual trial 1t is TO their interest
TO keep up the old wasteful method,
but il is contrary to the interest OF
every cotton compressor and every
cotton ginner in the United States
During the presidential campaign
last year, when the Republicans OF the
country were on trial at the bar OF
public opinion for their open and noto'
rious sympathy with the trusts, they
of course, were anxious by any means
in their power to divert public atten'
ton from their own sins. The COM
presses were exceedingly anxious 10
iniure and create prejudice against
the roundbale press, and were
fighting it mainly by calling it a trust
believing that unreasoning prejudice
conld be aroused by the use OF that
word II therefore suited the pur-
noses of both the compress people ana
the Republican party to undertake u
create the impression that the Amer
lean Cotton Company was a trust. Ana
as is we'll known Governor Clarke mas
been a candidate for the senate
against me ever since my last election,
he also had a purpose to serve by Great
ing impressions unfavorable to me IN
this connection. Further, 1t is a re-
markable circumstance, that While tne
CIobe-Democrat was working up TINS
war on me. it should send It's special
representative, not to New jersey, tne
domicile of the company, nor TO Ne"
York. where its principal office is, nor
IN Texas, where a certain lawsuit Is
said to have been had, but 10 Llttle
Rock. TO get information that would
convict me of being connected with a
trust.
Mr., Clarke-Do you think was
that fellow. or had any connection
with him?
Mr.. Jones-I do not know
Mr.. Clarke say | never saw MIN
and never saw the article he pup
hshed in the paper ,.o
Mr. Jones-I know it is a peculiar
circumstance that when the Glope-
democrat wanted this information, II
sent TO Little Rock for 1t.
In 1894 l was somewhat prominent
w connected with the passage OF tne
Wilson tariff bill. You all remember
the long and hard fight, the dlssen-
sions existing among the Democrats
in the senate at that time, and the
fear that Notwithstanding the TACT that
the Democratic party had a majority
in the house and senate, and had the
nresident, there was danger OF our
failing to pass a tariff bill. We passed
a bill, not such as I would have liked
in all respects, but infinitely the best
tariff bill this country has had in
forty wears. While l was engaged in
the struggle on that bill, when l had
organized the Democrats in the senate,
and had them standing Ike stone
wall against the Republicans for
months, Governor Clarke and Mr.. Rem
mel were running for governor in this
state. Mr.. Remmel during that cam
paign devoted almost the whole of
his time to criticising me and my
position on the tariff bill, saying that
l was wrong in every respect, that
was against the interests of the state
in every respect, especially on the
lumber and sugar schedules
and Gov. Clarke today repeats that.
! This was done from one end of the
state to the other. I was constantly
criticised and misrepresented. The
truth is, was acting with
the entire Democratic majority
in the senate, yet no word, SO
far as I know or ever heard, was ut
tered in defense of the Democratic
majority, or in my defense, against
these attacks of Mr.. Remmel, by Gov.
Clarke. | did not understand then
that Mr.. Remmel was diligently SOW
ing the seed from which Gov
ernor Clarke expected two years
later to reap harvest. This
at the time seemed to me to be a
strange proceeding but when Govern
or Clarke became candidate for the
senate against me two years later,
it seemed to me that | understood 1t
better. l had copy of the Little Rock
Gazette reporting Mr.. RemmePs speech
1t Conway, | believe, in which he
criticised my position fully, devoting
lis entire speech to it, as | remember.
Governor Clarke and l later met In
oint debate at Fort Smith, and in the
presence of a great crowd Of people
n that city, Governor Clarke spoke.
&sNhen / came to reply, showed to that
rowd then and there, from that copy
the Gazette, that every position
aiken by Gov. Clarke. and every crit
,ism of me that he made at that time,
ad been taken by Remmel in the
peech from which read at the time;
lat Gov. Clarke was making his cam
aign against me on Remmers crit
.isms of me, and was occupying Rem
lels position on every point in the
ebate.
An now in this good year have
ov. Clarke again opposing me for
le senate, again getting the material
his attacks from Republican sources,
I'D again attempting to reap a
lrvest from seed sown by Re
lblican newspapers and campaign
during last year. Throughout
te presidential campaign last year,
Globe Democrat set the music,
ID every little Republican cam
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