Show CAMPAIGN SILVER I Paramount Issue In the Contest Next Year + CHAIRMAN JONES VIEWS + REPUBLICANS ITUSTJ DECLAEJE FOB GOLD STANDARD + Deceived Bimetalliste In the Campaign paign of 96 By Pledging Themselves Them-selves to International Bimetallism I Bimetal-lism JTo Doubt About What the Democratic Convention Will Do Washington Feb IS Senator James K Jones chairman of the Democratic national committee is not in accord with Mr Croker of New York and Mr Wall of Wisconsin regarding the par mount issue In the next presidential campaign He said today To say that the next Democratic national convention will reaffirm the position taken by the convention in 1S9G is to assert what every candid man even slightly familiar with existing facts knows to be true I Is as certain cer-tain as anything human can be that the question of bimetallism will be the leading issue in the campaign next yearSome of the reasons why I a strongly hopeful of the future of our cause are as follows In the campaign of 1S96 both parties declared for bimetallism the Democrats Demo-crats for Independent action by the acton United States the Republicans for an international agreement which they pledged themselves to promote True this declaration on the part of the Republicans Re-publicans was only made to catch votes and because the party leaders did not dare to go to the polls without I I think now no one any longer doubts that the fixed purpose of those who controlled these leaders was to main man tain the gold standard and to prevent not promote an international agreement agree-ment The declaration however sened its purpose and large numbers of sincere sin-cere blmetallists were persuaded to vote the Republican ticket in the belief be-lief that they were voting for a honest hon-est effort to secure international bimetallism bi-metallism The leaders who were responsible re-sponsible for this trick have already committed their party to the single gold standard so far as they can and if they dare speak out honestly in their next national platform it will declare for the single gold standard Mr Jones said that the next Democratic Demo-cratic national convention would speak out again In the same clear unequivocal terms and in the same manner and in the same lines that It did in 1836 |