| Show JOHN P JONES DICTATOR At times one cannot but wonder why It is that whenever a western man that is a man from one of the silver producing states comes into national prominence in connection with congressIonal congres-sional matters a large portion of the eastern press immediately becomes infuriated in-furiated The sudden prominence of I Senator John P Jones of Nevada because I I cause of the fact that upon his vote depended the power of the Republican party in the senate finance committee I to report the tariff bill and perhaps to pass it through the senate has caused three papers to speak of him as a dictator dic-tator Had he been a dictator holding their particular financial views they would in all probability have hailed him as a savior instead They were that is many of them were perfectly willing to accept Mr Clevelands dictatorship dic-tatorship while others of them are willing to accept the dictatorship of Speaker ReedIt Reed-It is true that Senator Jones did lookout look-out for western interests in the tariff bill as he viewed them But were not i the eastern protectionists in congress looking out for precisely the same I thing for their constituents But their interests were not identical with those I whose views Senator Jones Is supposed I to represent Both swear by protection protec-tion yet when both have got it both I swear because the other has got it What a difference it makes whose ox I is gored Senator Jones Is goring the eastern ox at present And what a bellowing there is We do not believe in Senator Jones tariff theories but he is logical and It Is because he is logical that he is called call-ed a dictator Being a dictator and by birth a subject of Queen Victoria he may harbor some scheme to revolutionize revolution-ize this government the scheme if it exists and no one can say what a dictators schemes include may contemplate con-template the annexation of the United States to Canada being Senator Jones contribution to the celebration of Queen Victorias diamond jubilee i There never was a dictator who was I not dangerous and Senator Jones is a dictator because some of the soldbusr I paaers say he is I |
