The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-07-14
HOADLY AND HARMONY
The Germans Rally to the Demo
cratic Leader.
Judge HOadIy's Speech at the Opening Of
the Jefferson Club at Cincinnati
John Sherman's Doubt.


| CINCINNATI, July 1.-THE newly or
ganized Jefferson Club here Is composed
mostly of Germans; most of them have
been heretofore Republicans. 1t Is re-
| gularly incorporated and has been so
managed that it is now one of the most
| powerful political clubs In the country.
At the opening of the new club house
there was large and brilliant assem-
blage OF Democrats, and speeches were
made by Judge HOadly, Senator Pendle-
ton, Hon. Isaac NJ. Jordan, MayOr
| Stephens, editor Henry HaAcke and 9th
ers. Judge HOadly responded to the toast
Thomas JeffersOh," and spoke as fol-
lows:
THE j JEFFERSON CLUB:-I deem myself
especially nOnOred in being permitted
TO respond, however feebly, to the mem
Ory OF Thomas Jefferson. Few now live
| who ever saw that great man. My own
| Dlrth was in the month Of his death.
But | feel that life and political
thoughts are well spent just so far as
they are dominated by his precepts and
guided by his teachings, so that | ap-
ter in the spirit Of disciple. Zap
plause.l
He was born in 1743 and married at
the age of twenty-One to Martha, daugh-
ter of John Wayles and widow of
Bathurst SHELTON, who died after ten
years of welded happiness with him,
leaving two daughters to his care.
Faithful to the memory of the wife of
his early love, he sought no second, but
devoted himself to the training and edu-
cation of his girls with loving and as
siduOus care, which went far toward
supplying "a mothers loss. A lawyer
and farmer, an observer rs we'll as a
scholar, at once the thoughtful student
OF the past and the quick sympathizer
with the beating pulse of the present,
he brought the best deductions of history
to guide the destinies of theshOuT. Ami
| able tO'a fault, his home was ever filled
with loving friends, who jOurneyed
from his own and other lands to learn
wisdom from his lips. Generous to a
fault, he expended his fortune In the
| service of his friends.
And his sagacity and unselfish devO-
tlOn to every good cause, private and
public, met their reward even in life.
Member of the House of BuTgesses Of
Virginia and of the Continental Con-
gregs, Governor Of Virginia, ambassador
to France, Secretary OF State, Vice Presi-
dent and President of the United States,
indeed his cup Of hOnOrs was fllled and
ran over; [applause.l
Upon his tombstone he directed to be
| engraved these words: "Here Lies
Buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the
Declaration of Independence, of the
Statutes of Virginia, for Religious Free
dom and Father of the University of
| Virginia"
Thus he sought to commemorate the
three great liberties for which he lived !:
Civil liberty, religious liberty and libeT.
| ty of the mind.
For he gave full trust to the capacity
of man and believed that with free citi-
zens in a free State, untrammeled or
trammeled to the least possible extent
by cOnstraints of law, the highest and
best results, the surest and speediest
gains would be garnered by the COM
mOnwealth.
In the Declaration of Independence he
wrote the immortal words:
1--WE hold these truths to be self-eVi-
dent, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, that to secure
these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed"
Upon this cornerstone, Mr.. President
and gentlemen, rests the fabric of
American liberty, and it will be secure
so long as with loving kindness his
teachings are studied and followed,
and his memory hOnOred among
our people. That all men, irrespec-
tive bOf their accidental or artificial
conditions, irrespective of birthplace or
lineage, or wealth, or color, are born
equal, with the right to equal opportun-
ity before the law that their equal right
to liberty of action and to happiness is
inalienable, that government is a means
to secure these ends and not an end in
itself, are the doctrines which Thomas
Jefferson believed and taught.
True, he was stakeholder, but he Ia
mented the calamity, sought to abolish
slavery in his state, and gave freedom
by will to his slaves.
We do not claim he never misjudged
or erred. He was human. But we do
assert that belief, with him, in mans
capacity for lf-gOVernment-in the
simple theOrem that he Is best governed
who is least gOverned-that union, with
him, in the encouragement of liberty in
all things furnishes the most secure ba-
sis for rational hope in the continued
and permanent life of our nation as
free democracy.
Not many years ago was deeply pain
ed to. read, as coming from the lips Of
Gen. Garfield, the statement that the
opinions of Alexander Hamilton were
gaining, and those of jefferson losing
force in our cOuntry-pained because 1t
was then true, panied because it was
said by Garfield. Let us now thank God
and take courage that this tendency no
longer exists, and trust that the increase
of the spirit and hope of democracy that
we see all around us is not evaneseent
and short lived, because 1t is based on
and accompanied with a deeper as well
as more lively devotion to the principles
which were illustrated in the life and
taught in the precepts of Thomas Jeffer-
son. [Applause.l
The Judges response was frequently
applauded, though he was attentiVely
listened to, and when he took his seat
the cheering was we'll nigh deafening.