The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-02-15

Following is an abstract Of Mr.. Bry.
ans address,
NEVER HAS THIS NATION BEEN
MORE IN NEED THAN 1T IS TO.
DAY OF AN EARNEST AND THOR
IAN PRINCIPLES, WHILE OTHER
STATESMEN, APPEARING Al DIFF.
FERENT CRISES AND MEETING
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THEIR
RESPECTIVE TIMES, HAVE MADE
PARTIAL APPLICATION OF DEMO.
CRATIC PRINCIPLES, JEFFERSON
is THE ONLY ONE WHO FORMU-
LATED A DEMOCRATIC CODE AP-
PLICABLE TO ALL TIMES. ALL
Though the champion of the COM
mon people, he was born among the
aristocrats and was as intimately ac-
uuainted with the members of the
House of Have as with those who
struggled to meet by daily work their
daily wants.
His education made him the com
panion Of the scholars of the present
and the past, but his sympathies at
tached him to those In whom aspira-
tions for higher things were stifed
by the pressure of necessity. He was
acquainted with tho reflnements of the
bUClhl WOTIu, Dut Ills iVuouhu-
ed to the benefit of those who were
outside of the charmed circle. His
works are his monument and that
monument is itself 50 imposing that
the world gazes upon 1t Indifferent to
the official honors enumerated upon
Its base.
ROGUE BY HIS ENEMIES AND YET
HE EXHIBITED A MORAL COUR-
TRACTORS HAVE EVER POSSESS
ED, AND IN BEHALF OF A RIGHT
GUS PRINCIPLE HE WOULD OP-
POSE THE WORLD.
Two years before he wrote the
Declaration of Independence he pre-
pared a summary view of the rights
of British America which was q bold
reputation Of the authority which
England claimed-that was not the
work of demagogue.
At th2 age of 33 he gave verbal form
to the self evident truths which since
the dawn of creation have with vary
ing force stlugs:ed Tor governmental
expressicn-rhat was not the work OF
e emagogua.
He attacked the laws Of primogeni-
ture and entail and saved America
from a landed aristocracy-that was
not the work Of a demagogue.
He threw down the gauge of battle
to the established church and made
a successful plea for religious liberty
that was not the work OF dema-
gogue.
He condemned slavery when the sys-
tenn was popular in his state and in
the nation, and he did 1t three-quar-
ters of century before emancipation
crowned Lincoln with martyrdom and
immortality-that was not the work
Of a demagogue.
During his whole life he def1ed the
financial and political influence of the
Tory element, and to Jefferson more
than to any one man Is due the demo-
cratic features OF our government.
He organized the Democratic party
and by the strength of his leadership
overthrow an opposition intrenched in
power and bulwark by the business
and social forces.
So successful was his administra-
tion that his reelection was practi-
cally unanimous, and for years the ex-
ecutive chair was filed by men unto
whom he had been q Gamalisl. ,,,
AT THIS TIME WHEN THE
Lutte CONTROL OF THE GOVERN
MENT AND ARE SHAPING THE
NATIONS FINANCIAL POLICY IN
THEIR OWN INTERESTS. WITH
OUT REGARD FOR THE WELFARE
OF THE PEOPLE AT LARGE, WE
NEED TO RECALL JEFFERSON'S
SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT OF
THOSE WHO DEMAND THE SUR
RENDER INTO THEIR HANDS OF
THE SOVEREIGN FUNCTIONS OF
GOVERNMENT. at-
He pointed out that the safety of the
people lay in policy that would
drive the banks out Of the governing
business.
At this time when corporate mono
poly Is fast extinguishing industrial
Independence, we need revival of the
Jeffersonian spirit which demands a
government administered according
to the doctrine Of equal rights to all
and special privileges to none.
At this time when commercialism
Is soaring the conscience OF the ma
ton; when the worship of Mammon
Is leading the people to ignore in
alienable rights; when the ideals
bought with blood and sacrifice are
about to be bartered away for the
specious and delusive promises of en-
pire-at this time. I repeat. we need
to have our faith In man as man and
our love for man as brother rekindled
by the memory of this mighty patriot,
philosopher and Dem ocrat, whose
brain comprehended the height and
depth and breath of government and
whose heart embraced the human
race.
ANDREW JACKSON.
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