Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-29

newspaper refutation OF calumny. and
he never, in any instance. appealed 10
the retribution OF the laws. From his
rule OF conduct in this respect neither
newspaper datribe nor tho frenzied de-
nunciation OF ecclesiastical bigotry and
hate could provoke him to depart.
II know" he wrote to friend.
that l might have filed the courts cf
the United States with actions FOR these
ISLANDERS, and have ruined perhaps many
persons who are rot innocent. But this
would be no equivalent for the loss or
character. / leave them therefore, 10
the reproof OF their own consciences. IL
these do not condemn them. there will
yet come a day when the false witness
will meet a Judge who has not slept
over his ISLANDERS. II the Rev. Cotton
Mather Smith believed this as firmly as
| do. he would surely never' have affirmed
that had obtained my property by fraud
and robbery; that in ore instance / had
defrauded and robbed a widow and IA
therless children OF an estate 20 which |
was executor. OF $1,000 sterling, By keep
ing the property and paying them in
smoney at the nominal rate when II was
worth no more than 20 TO I. and that all
this could be proved"
BUT THE PEOPLE STOOD BY HIM
Despite the rancorous campaign against
him doubtless partly because OF III, de-
spite the direful predictions of Hamilton
and the politicians the urid warnings OF
the Rev. Or. Mason and the ISLANDERS ard
dcnunciations by a multitude of preach
ers, the people elected Mr.. Jefferson.
None of the terrible things came to pass
that were predicted as a consequence of
such action on their part. On the con-
tfary. under his wise. democratic ad-
m'nistrauon of the government the
country prospered so that when his term
expired he was chosen for another term
by an electoral majority many times
greater than he had on his first election,
and greater than that ever received by
any other President. save and except
only those two other Virgnlans. Ceorge
Washington and James Monroe.
Commenting on the calm and dignihed
course of Mr. jefferson during that cam
paign Of abuse and SANDER. a biographer
says: HE probably appreciated that the
rancor and personal malignity Of his OPP
pOnents We're a sure Indication Of their
/ sense Of weakness and Of coming defeat.
| The party which INDUCES most freely
| In false personal vituperation almost in
variably flls itself beaten at the polls"
JEFFERSON AND BRYAN.
In his address to tho Democratic clubs
/ at st. Louis Mr. Bryan. noticing that
/ they have adopted a button bearing the
/ likeness Of Jefferson. said: "If you had
searched through all history you could
not have found a man more worthy Of
being taken as your ideal statesman, be-
cause IN the history of the human race
there has been but one Thomas Jefferson.
OF all the constructive statesmen whom
the world has ever seen. Thomas JEFF
ferson stands first" It Is not surprising
that the presidential candidate who
ayows such an opinion as that encounter-
ed the bltterest hostility IA the section
that was so bitterly hostile to Thomas
Jefferson.
THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT FARMERS.
In his speech at Bridgeport. Conn.,
Mr. Bryan said: Il warn you that the
farmers of this country are the samsons,
and when they fall they pull down the
pillars OF the temple with them"
AT Springfield. Mass, he said: "In pub
/ lie life and I'm business life The best
brains that you have come from the
farmers Of this country"
Now the politicians and the business
men" Of the East do not think as Mr..
Bryan does about the farmers. They do
not think farmers should have as much
consideration from those who run the
| government as MIR. Bryan thinks they
D
| mate upon the farmers worth and inn
portance TO the country and upon the
farmers intellect than Mr.. Bryan does.
But upon this subject as upon others,
Mr.. Bryan is i'm accord with Thomas JEFF
ferson, who said "Those who labor in
the earth are the che on people Of God
if ever He had & chosen people. whose
breasts lie has made His peculiar DC
pOsit for substantial and genuine virtue
IL is the focus in which he keeps alive
that sacred fire which otherwise might
escape from the face Of the earth. Cor
ruption OF morals in the mass Of cul,i-
vators IS a phenomenon. OF which no age
nor nation has furnished an example" ,
As to capacity to decide a question OF
morals properly. Mr.. jefferson said
state moral case 10 ploughman and
a professor. The former viii decide II
as well and often better than the latter
because he has not been led astray by
artificial rules" And when he looked
around him for security against harmful
British influence in The United States
the sage of Monticello said: II find II
IN the widespread OF our agricultural
citizens i'm their unsOphisticated minds
their independence. and their power Il
called on. 70 maintain the principles
which severed US from England" Thii
IS the class OF citizens that the money
changers and gamblers OF Wall stree
are presuming 20 instruct as 10 thei
moral duty Who can imagine Thoma
jefferson telling American farmers WpOl
whom he relied TO maintain the prin
ciplcs which severed US from England
that It is their moral duty to vote for th'
subsection Of this country TO a polio,
dictated by England?
THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD TRUSTS
There were those IN Mr.. Jenerson's da,
who desired the establishment by law o
a particular form of Christianity in mi
country, a sort Of religious trust, in tn
interest Of a particular sect. For tn
maintenance Of this special form OF re
ligion the people were 10 be taxed. Thos
who favored IL We're opposed 10 Mr. JET
ferson because they believed he woul
oppose their schemes for the enactmen
of a law that would in anywise abridg
the freedom Of religion. And they be
lieye rightly" said the great apostle o
freedom and true democracy, "fOr i hav
sworn upon the altar OF God eternal hos
tlity against every form Of tyranny owe
} the mind OF man" The religious trus
was not created, but other trusts tina
! have come into existence since then ar
to-day tyrannizing over the minds an
bodies of men, and standing I'm the yer
citadel of these trusts, William j. Hrya
said:
3 THE trusts of this country. with thei
I representative are collecting tribut
( from the people, and when we protes
! against II they call us disturbers OF IN
{ peace and Anarchists / am opposed {
: trusts. AS an Executive, / shall use wha
power / have to drive every trust out O
, existence"
There Is the true Jeffersonian rim
y again. There spoke the genuine tribun
, OF the people. There can be no dout
that Thomas Jefferson, were he now alive
would oppose the gigantic and oppressiV
: trusts Of this country as sternly as WI
, liam j. Bryan does but Mr.. Bryan doe