The Irish standard., 1896-04-11
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July 4, 1896 y
If Jefferson could have named TIE day
Of his death, while he might have de-
ferred the event by some years, his mod
eaty would have been the-only bar to his
selection OF July 4. It is the dare Of all
dates that is associated with his memory.
Jefferso1 S monument is on mis- home
estate-his dust rests in the old family
burial ground His grave is surrounded
by those Of members of his family, his
wife and daughters and other relatives.
They are marked by horizontal marble
slabs on a level with the ground.
Under the existing calendar, Jeffarson's S
birthday falls On April 13, and on that
day at his old Monticello home, will be
gathered many of the great men of his
nation The president and his cabinet
and statesmen of all kinds and degrees
will be there to look upon the grave of
the democrat whose memory all AneTi-
cans, without reference to political party,
revere and love to honor. 1t may be moth
| ing to the discredit Of the Democratic
party that the greatest man it has ever
| held was the one who founded it, There
may have been "Old Tickories, - whose
| strength IS undouhted men whot might
! be bent but could never be broken, but
! in conscience, education power Of intel
! lect. and true craftsmanship, there is'none
the peer of the one who framed the declar-
alton
! Jefferson was a sincere believer in the
| people He theorized that the salvation
Of the nation and the perpetuation of its
| identity lay in the masses. There was nc
wrong they would not right, no evil they
| would not remedy. His schemes for the
republics good involved always the ed
ucation of the people. An intelligent cleo
torate he regarded as the only safe founda-
tion for the national fabric.
In the early days Of the republic there
were two sharply defined opinions. Alex
aader Hamilton. whose followers dispute
4 with Jeffersonian disciples the relative
greatness Of the two men, had not thai
Gliding confidence in the masses. HI
spoke for many when he said: Your peo
pie sir; your people is a beast" Doubt
less the federalist had in mind the hor
rors of the few years before in France
: when the people, without master ant
4 Il ~
: blood. Hamilton feared the people, ant
Jefferson built his faith upon them Meas
ures and policies have changed and Rey
deeds have found new men. Hamii
! tons political party does not exist eyel
in name AS for Jefferson's. the nam
is left, but the policy varies so wilel
from that which he outlined he wou
I have to read much history if he were t
come back to earth in order 10 accoun
:, for the evolution. 4 study of Jefferson
: politics, taken with the political EistoE
5 Of the United States viii show this 70
4 true The party that has most closely aG
! hered to the lines drawn by him has bee
\ the successful party. and the measure {
It's success has been the. closenes of it aC
herenee to the Jefferonian doctrine TIL
\ is the statement made BY students Of pol
! tics.
i 1t is as useless as it is needless to a
n tempt biography Of Jefferson in a new
v / paper column. For so years he was
+ striking figure in affairs He shaped AT
Y built ana directed He helped constitu
4 the government, and framed the Ian
Il and then executed them. His writing
+ impemectly collected, make many lars
) volumes. His biographers have been F;
Is many nearly as the pages of his works.
~ JEFFERSON died near where he was Dor
i His family was anciently virginian. VII
all the virginian pride and sense Of pc