The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-20
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.-JEF-
PERSON WAS DENOUNCED BY
THE SAME CLASS THAT
ABUSES BRYAN.
ABUSES BRYAN.

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When Mr.. jefferson was q candidate
sor the Presidency in 1900 his aristo-
cratic and Federalisttc opponents sad
Of him almost exactly what the same
lass OF people are saying to-day about
Mr.. Bryan. 1t was charged that JEFF
fersou "hatel the constitution" and
vas pledged to subvert It," AleXan-
.ler Hamilton, who was the Benjamin
Harrison and Grover Cleveland com
bined of his day, drew pictures Of the
methods jefferson would employ to
subvert it," lie announced that he
would remove every Federalist from Of
ice, inaugurating a reign of spoils and
corruption. They say Mr. Bryan
would do the same thing. Mr.. Jeifer-
son did turn out those Federalists who
had converted the government into
IN engine for the spread Of the narrow
ness Of Federalism. Bryan would d.
the same thing when elected, for the
gold advocates of the Republican and
democratic party to-day are nothing
burt modern Federalists, hating the rule
of the people and arrogating to the
inanciers the exclusive right to con
troll financial legislation.
1t was predicted of Jefferson by the
last century Federalists that he would
stumble the financial system of l.he
country into ruin at one stroke" and
that he would bring ON universal
bankruptcy and beggary.' This was
Hamilton's prediction 1T lis almost
the identical words THAT such gTue-
some prophets as Mark Hanna, Chaun-
| cey Depew, Benjamin Harrison, Grover
Cleveland and John G.. Carlisle use in
the dire predictions of what would
| happen now if Bryan should win. How
did Hamilton's prediction turn out?
| The country expanded, taking into It's
area the Louisiana purchase; indus
tries sprung up on every hand and
| flourished; and so well satisfied, happy
and contented were the people that
they not only reelected Mr.. Jefferson,
but successfully gave term of eight
| years each to his bosom friends and
pupils, Madison and Monroe, who car
| ried on the government on the lines
laid down by Jefferson, virtually Civ
| ing jefferson and his views a twenty
four years lease of power, in which
so satisfied were the people that tha
country came to enjoy The Era of
Good Feeling" Federalism died in a
dishorcqed grave, and when is
| sy non m, di1tIust Of the Eccple per-
/ isbed, gocd times and coed feeling be
| came predominant in the Re- public.
| Beyan'e election would revive the
second ''Eta CT Good Feeling"
| But to chow how perfectly history
/ Tepeats itself we may recall the ef-
| forts tbs money pew er, acting through
| Federalism, to scare the people then
| ac dc thsi1 successors new. The Re-
| voluticna1y War had not long closed.
| and q kind government had provided
| tic pension the brave soldiers. There
| was no objsction by anybody t. just
| PENSIONS tnen as there is not new, and
| yet then and now these who enjoyed
| the special privileges which Jefferson
| Threatened to destroy called on the
soldiers to oppose jefferson, predict
| ing that his election would
| make their pensions less valu-
| able They did not then char
| ter a special palace car and trans
port a number of ex-Generals ever
the country to stir up the passions
| and preiudices of the pensioners, but
| they used every art of their time to
| make patriotism shield private legisla-
| tive fayor and give it another lease of
| power. Happily fer the country then
| the old soldiers deemed a just govern
| ment more desirable than a few dol
| lars, and turned deaf ear to the selfish
| plea OF the money-changers. The
1 signs of the times indicate that many
| of the cid soldiers who followed Grant
| ami Garfield will fellow the example
| of Grants sen and Gaffelds brother
| in putting country above section, and
| vote fer dha successor of Jefferson i'm
| stead of the tool of Mark Hanna AMI
the agent of the mighty trusts that
are crushing the life out of business
and trade
1t is related also that the poor were
| told then as POW that the money
1 (IdiIgElS N~IG InJNGu Only LA cOIlSiQ~
| eTation fol their welfare, acd the pre-
diction was spread broadcast that JEFF
| ferson's election would cause 'staIv-
| ing in the streets or living on the cold
and precaricus supplies of charity"
| This lis the cry the Hannaites and
| Hannacrats raise in all our great cities,
and is the argument they expect to be
effective with the poor. They got the
~
now: "Many are starving now under
| your policy which is helpful only to
the rich. We want government where
there will be no ruling class, but where
there shall be equal rights to all and
| special privileges to nome"
| The DIR. McArthurs, the Tom Dixons,
| the Bishop NeWmans and the other
clerical hirelings of that day fulminat-
| ed in the pulpits against Jefferson just
as the Hanna-called preachers of to-
| day denounce Bryan. Of all the spec