The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-23
Jackson and the BoItocrats.
ON the Kansas City Times.

son day gathering at Chicago, Friday
evening, whereat 200 boltocrats met TO
eat, drink and he sorry But it was
more like Il funeral.
What right had the representatives
of that crowd-which not only plotted
and pcrpetrated treachery against the
democratic party, but arrayed the pol
luted carcass of treason in the pinch
beck iewelry OF hypocrisy and called
the repulsive thing patriotism-to drag
an honorable name, 4 glorious day into
their profaning orgies? What incident
is there in the history of the grand old
hero OF New Orleans, the fearless chief
magistrate who stood between the
plain people and the encroachments of
corporate wealth, that could be tor
tured into the slightest approval of the
remuneration OF party fealty or the
reputation of party do%ctrinesP Repub-
lIcan Hessians, clarifying the day on
which the battle of New Orleans was
fought, and extollIng the hero who
captained the brave men whose valor
won it, presents a spectacle of effron-
terry that only the shriveled band of
shameless political free-booters who
drank and talked at Chicago on Jack
son day could have evolved.
The champion of the rights of the
people against the expressions of the
banking power, landed and claimed as
a political prototype by such creatures
as the millionaire grocer, Franklin Nc
Weigh, who presided over the feast,
and by the p~artyless president, who
sent the feasters his ponderous COM
meDdation in epistorary form, were he
inconceivable power to attend this
feast of proclamation, would feel as
utterly out of place as an eagle among
a flock of masquerading magpies.
Cleveland abiding IN terms of polit-
ical fellowship to Andrew Jackson and
the sold landmarks of the democratic
party'' Is a travesty and a sacrilege.
The destroyer of democracy yoking
himself in encyclopedias phrase with
its most fearless exponent and defender
is enough TO make the gorge rise in
the throat of every honest democrat
throughout the length and breadth of
the union. jackson, the conqueror
of the British, coupled with the fat
Drained egotist who looks to a foreign
nation for his financial policy; Cleve-
land, grown rich in Office and bending
all the which the people have
placed in his hands to force these same
people beneath the tyranny of the
organized moneyed power, mating his
beliefs and policies with the poor and
personality of Old Hickory,
who took by the throat the United
States bank and stilled its demands
With the sword of the constitution
Jackson, the soldier, who barred his
breast to his country's foes on many a
and shed his blood in his
,ountry's cause, without tremor or
Jackson, who stands for the
expression of bravery, manli-
less, patriotism and craftsmanship In
he American republic, harnessed in
erms of party consanguiniiy with the
lropsical ~ex-sheriff of Erie county,
New York, who fought his battles
when his country called for men with
hired substitute, and whose war-like
experiences are confined to desperate
,nslaughts upon the ducks of the Poto=
nae and Carolina swamps, and to ang-
ing depredations upon the fish of Buzz
ards Bay. These are some of the
,rotesgue and unseemly manifestations
# violence done to the v~erities of
history and the honored traditions of
he democratic party by the little band
# boltocrats who gave their lonely and
ugubrious banquet IN commemoration
# Andrew Jackson at Chicago.
An insignificant group, representing
crowd which, at the recent election,
rolled less than one per cent OF the
vote, criticising, defaming and
ienouncing as wholly bad and immoral
he organization that cast over six
million votes for the democratic candi-
late, is an exposition of colossal cheek
ghich deties the centuries that have
como and gone moe the dawn Of his
DRY for its parallel or its peer.