The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-07

even pay our doclorG bills aaa our
preachers their salary. But Cssnoglo
wasn't happy and got The tariff taken
on aud then got al his manganese from
South America and the West India ia.
lands. The collapse came here, OF
course, aud the business was aban-
doned. Thats the kind Of protection
We got
but what ia q democrat now? Some
times q consequential gentleman who
hankora after an Office will swell up
and exelaim: Il am q Jthersonian
democrat" and the editors have O nest
egg IN Jehersonian democracy and
i have tried IN vain TO make
these modern political garments
&c Thomas Jefferson, but they
won't do It. In his day there was no
quarrel over gold and silver, nor state
banks, nor income tax. lie won't into
Office in good circumstances and came
out insolvent. Even his home at Mon
tioello was levied on and would have
been sold but for the generosity Of a
few wealthy friends. After his second
term was ont he was not sure Of being
allowed 10 60 home without arrest and
giving bond. On becoming O public
man he resolved never TO engage in
any kind Of enterprise 10 improve his
fortune. He kept this resolve faith
hatch it frequently. What is that?
His biogrhpher says the most material
article in his political creed was that
''the will Of the majority must govern.
This may sometimes err, but its errors
are honest, solitary and short lived.
There is no special democracy in that.
All parties endorse it. Jefferson said
that a Offence in politics was not a
reason for the removal of competent
and faithful officers and he did not re.
move but very few while he was presi-
dent, and those were for misconduct.
But now the democratic doctrine is to
turn the rascals out and every Office
holder is presumed to be a rascal.
fully for fifty years, which was as long
as he held Office. He married a young
and beautiful widow and could play
the violin exquisitely, both Of which
we're democratic usages, and still are,
though neither playing the fiddle nor
shooting ducks are put in any modern
platform.
But the issue now Is concerning the
currency, an abstruse speculative ques-
ton about which the average man
knows so little that he ought to be
ashamed to talk and thereby show his
ignorance. And yet there are here
and there good citizens who profess to
know all about it and will talk about
Sound money" and JeGersonian
democracy as gushingly as a professor
of political economy in q northern col
lege.
l wish we could put the X rays upon
this question and explore it, but as we
cannot and as the great men of the ma
ton conscientiously differ on it am
going to pin my faith to the purest and
best man know OF in public life. He
is as pure in private life and
as poor as Jefferson and could
have written the declaration of indie
pendence if he had lived in that day,
for Jefferson was then only thirty-three
years old. My admiration for William
J. Bryan is very great, and shall
bank on him with more reliance than
on the platform. A republican con-
gress cansknock a democratic platform
into fits, but they can't move Mr..
Bryan from his convictions nor his in
tegrity. When these gold standard
papers asseil him and make sport of
him he can say to them as Job did to
his three friends: "No doubt We are
the people and wisdom will die with
You. "-BmI ARP, in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.