Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21


 l hope to be in Little Rock by Monday next and have a talk with you. Very hastily,
 JAMES K. JONES.
 Governor Jones relied implicitly upon these assurances of support and interest by Senator Jones, and sent him from time to time documents to be used in his benalf, and advised him of apprehended opposition to his ap- pOintmentment. It is now a we'll known fact, and admitted by the sen ator in his public speeches, that he endorsed MT. P. D. Scott, who was ap- pointed. But on March IS, 1901, after MT. Scott's appointment was known and published as assured, the senator called on Gov. Jones in Little Rock and stated to him that he had urged his appointment to the last, but thaI the president, though at first disposed to appoint him, later, for some reason unknown to him, had become "preiu- diced'' against the governor and re- fused to do so. This was also the ex- planatiOn certain of the senator's friends offered for him later, as upon his authority.
 information from various sources convinced the friends of Governor Jones that the senator had, in fact, endorsed Mir. Scott as soon as the latter had applied, and BEFORE the last two of the above letters was writ ten. 1 took occasion to mention this Derfidy to some of his friends, and showed the above letters in proof. In September last he went to members of my family at Batesville, who were his supporters in this race for the sen ate, and complained to them that I was misled by Governor Jones, and that 1 misrepresented him (the sena- tor) and did him an iniustice; that he mad ''never promised Dan Jones to support him, and had never asked the president to appoint him." After some effort l secured an interview, lasting nearly an hour, with the sena- tor at his room in GleasOn's hotel, in this city, early in November, in which he stated to me unequiVOcallY and in questions, that he had never, by letter or otherwise, promised support to Governor Jones, and that he had never at any time asked the president to appo mt him, but that Che had received some kind of an application or en- dorsement from Governor Jones for this position, and had laid it on the presidents table, as I would have done for any other constituent" I then handed him the above letters, and after reading them carefully he admitted that they plainly promised his support to Governor Jones, and as plainly stated that he ha l asked the president to appoint him; that the words, "spread my self," emphasized the latter state ment, and that in those of his letters written AFTER he had asked MT. Scott's appointment there was no in formation to Governor Jones that he was not still supporting him, but that, taken in connection with the first two letters, they plainly indicated that he was still supporting him. The only he made for his contrary statements was that he was ''eXtreme- ly busy" when the letters were writ ten. They are, however, in his own handwriting, all of them. He further stated to me that ''the president seemed at first determined to appoint Governor Jones, whether I or Berry or anybody else endorsed him;" that the first knowledge he had of the presidents contrary intention was when he was calling on the president, in company with Senator Berry, at the latter's request, for the purpose of joining him in advocating Mr. Scott's When I rose to leave Senator Jones said he was glad to have talked the matter over with me. I. that l was also glad, and had hoped that it would convince me that l was mistaken, but I must be frank with him and say that the re- suit of the interview had not changed my opinion of the matter a particle. He said, "I am not surprised; I did not think it would when you came in. But think in the course of year or two you will think differently" re- piled, "SenatOr, it will take some ad- litiOnal facts to make me think diff and I do not see why they nay not as we'll be developed now as I year two hence," and then added, T think l have right 10 say, in view )f past relations, that 1 am disap pointed in you. Such conduct on the part of some politicians now in the saddle in Arkansas politics would not surprise me, but I did not think you capable of it. Governor Jones would lot have done you that way, and mo- body knows that better than you. He s not that kind of a man." He drop ped his head, made no reply, and )ade him good afternoon and left.
 About December 1 Senator Berry vas in this city, and, learning that he hen discredited the statement that he lad made any promise of support to 5ov. Jones in this matter I showed Jim the above letters, and, after he cad them, he told me he would not believe it if he had not seen the let CTS (and added, "Can you blame