Arizona republican., 1899-04-28
"JEFFERsoN1AN DBNocRAcYv

One of the biggest pieces of hum
 buggery in the new spasm Of the de-
 mocracy intended to impress the coun-
 try with the fact that there is some
 vitality left in it's party is the ado be-
 ing made just now over Thomas Jef-
 ferson's memory and the so-called
 'Jeffersonian simplicity" A while
 ago Jackson was the patron saint of
 the party that now assumes to itself
 all the real democratic virtue in the
 country; today the worsnippers have
 turned their backs upon his image and
 are attributing to their new saint
 character which he never possessed in
 the flesh and which he CT his friends
 would never have recognized during
 his life. Tn sense Jefferson was
 much like many of those who now
 prate g.ibly about him and show a
 dense ignorance of his real character
 Every one familiar with the biog-
 raphies of the Sage Of Monticello
 knows that when he was democratic
 in his acts he was tremendously os-
 tentatious about it, as, for example, his performance of hitching his saddle
 horse to a post while he walked to his inauguration seat, while in private life Jefferson was a very high and mighty aristOcrat. He was a wealthy man, i lived on the fat of the land and dressed | as faultlessly as the most hated gold i bug or monopolist of the present day. 1 All this was nothing against Jefferson. ! He was an able president and cultured | civilian who delighted in the gcod ! things of life, but he was politician | enough to blow with the sentiment of our republics young days, when demo- i cratic simplicity was the fad of the l many as well as the deep and lasting desire Of the minority who did the ! thinking for the new nation, and he made the most of it in his political ambitions. Very much like him in this respect are some of the prating democrats of today like Bryan, Croker and Belmont. Each Of these Jeffer- sonian evangeIists is the possessor of a handsome income which he takes good care of and uses to gratify his own personal desires while he weeps crocodile tears in public over the woes of the dear people. Bryan rides around in palace cars, is entertained at magnificent hotels and revels at banquets in the garb of the rich, the damnable spike-tail coat Belmont, who made a really touching plea for the down trodden masses at the recent '-ten dollar dinner" is a banker who has aTassed through the labo~s of his father and the comfortable start given him by his sire a great fortune much of which is invested in palatiaI city and country homes. No one ever saw any democratic simplicity in his pri- vate life CT ever heard of any practical efforts on his part to relieve the con dition of the really unfortunate of the masses. Richard Croker is a man Of great wealth who dares not tell how he got it; an illiterate but crafty pIebeian 1 who with a racing stable apes the pleasures of the wealthy and aristo- cratic English. These are specimen evangelists of Jeffersonian democracy, with zeal to have monopoly, wealth and display abol lshed. They know that if their hum- bug pretentions should be generally carried out they would be the first vic tims, but they also know that their concern for the welfare of the masses ends at the voting booth and that they will never do anything more serious than talk to level the existing social conditions If that talk should ever 10 more than to lift or perpetuate .hem in high station they would be more badly frightened than the gold bugs or the corporations they are now for campaign effect. MeE ike these are political bunco steerers md flim-fiammers. We can have some respect for agitators IikM Debs and { Sovereign who r>-'