Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-11-03
Senator Jones Makes First Speech and Defends
 His Record. ueo SHOWS UP GOV. CLARkE'5 HUDSON BANK CLAIM
 RECORD. r,arkc Fellows With Much M'xcd Areunoent cn the Question 0i
 the Tariff.
syNoPsls OF THE~-SPEECHGS

The saaatarial candidates, Senator Jones an4 Ex-Gov. Clarke. met n ioint debate a the courthouse he:e setnrd1s- me4ning. IF audience out 55 hear ,hem Vas not hls oHa. ,boagb the circuit court room was fairly well filed. Both speakers Wsse introduced by Judge Woodbridge. Senator Jones spoke first, and ills speech was dign.tied and made i'll 6 statesmanlike way. lie criticized ta2 National administration colonial pol icy and said it involved the welfare of the United States. and was attene- aat with great dangers.
 He sad that Gov Clarke h2d e5lt!= eized his pabHe life and had seen t3t to talk about hIs (Joneso pHvate 9I= I fairs. developing 9 poftlea difference between him and Clarke. as well IS difference between Clarke anG tie l Democratic party; that Clarke had as T sailed the time honored doctrines Of ol Democracy.
 Senator 1anea said that Clarke aad censured hm tor voting agalnst t1e Hatch bt4 Hhich was intended t1 le5 slate bgcEetsa1ps out-ot= =eXla-snse: # that the ga*seH he voted &gan:&t # was because tre Hatch blll sought t2 suppiosz hneEetshcps uadel tho S'l1ee of taxation; that 1t was Democratic docuine fren. Jefferson down t2 the present time that the taXing poger eonld be exercised only for tn nGt- pose of IeTHing taxes and not to pre- hi5it anything that he favored and Voted for tho hil! to mako the opera flon of b0eketshops 2 crime. and Vas *ln favor of such a measure now: that it WAS not right for congress % 2Plse the taxing power to destroy; that larke had so far forgotten the pun- lpes of Democracy that he had got zen onto Republican grounds. and ad- coated the use of the taxing power of other purposes than that of raIs ng revenue onTy.
 Senator Jones then went into a de- ehse of the Wilson tariff bill. He
 
 ilson bill was worse than the Me Aihley bill which the Wilson bill sue eeded. and that 1t was biessIGg heh 'He )lngley bill wiped the Will soh olll off the statute books. Before 'e NlnSley pll salt was on the free z sN' He Bingley bill placed a tariff
 '"l' of li4 per cent. a salt trust "s formed, and now salt cost double Hat II cost before the Dingley bill
 "iie law, and not one cent of the oneS goes into the treasury; that Ii tax was put on foreign salt 70 'dl the domestic salt concerns could
 III trust and rob the people; that '"''hStanding Clarke had said at
 opening of the campaign that the iison bill contained nothing but Z H. ne now admits that the income
 N"'ure was all right: that when W 1' Ae feJeieed that the Wilson tariff
 "ent of the statute books he re.
 "i'h every Republican ln the
 'hal the Wilson bill was a
 lp'e'e fnfilment of the pledge ef
 De'i'oefatic party in national con z53 " oh tariff reform; that When
 sald that the Wilson bill was
 out he offered an insult
 Democrats in congress.
 Was adopted as being
 :, nearest to perfect meas.
 '"'' could be had; that there
 ca. s0 many different persons and
 .u.uencies s'. to be gratltled that a
 rn. ,"e could not be formed to suit
 ,rors that he tJones) did not
 eiy feature of it, but that