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suit of chance, but a product of mex
orable law. The musician must learn
the scale and properly arrange the
notes, or harmony, no matter how
earnestly wooed. can never be won.
Harmony in government is likewise
the result of fixed and Interchangeable
| rules. jefferson states two of these
rules-namely, absolute acquiescence
in the will of the majority and fire.
quent elections-the second aids the
first by giving hope of a remedy from
present ills, however grievous. If he
were living to-day his observation
would probably suggest a third rule,
namely, the ascertainment of the will
of the methods so direct, so fair and
so honest that the minority cannot
doubt that that will has been actually
expressed.
Jefferson also laid down the rules
by which, and by which alone, real
harmony can be secured within party.
l say real harmony, for that harmony
cannot be considered worthy of the
name, which. like the harmony tenn
porarily existing between the conf
dence man and his victim, is purposely
employed for deception and injury.
AristOcrat Versus Democrat.
1.-THE great founder of the Democrat
ic party whose profound philosophy
sounded all the depths of human ma
ture and measured the hight and
breadth of human government, not
long before the end of his eventful life,
said in letter to Mr.. Lee, that there
were but two permanent parties, the
aristocratic and the Democratic; that
| these two parties existed in every
country, and that where there was
freedom to think, speak and write,
these parties would become apparent.
With the aristocratic party he classed
those who fear and distrust the peo-
pie and wish to draw all power from
them into the hands of the higher
classes With the Democratic party
he classed those who identify them
selves with the people, have confidence
! in them, cherish and consider them as
the most honest and safe, though not
the most wise, depository of the public
| interests Every Well-informed stu
| dent of history will recognize this dis
tinction. In every community you can
| draw a line separating the aristocrat
| from the Democrat. 1t. will not be a
| perpendicular line, nor will it be a hor-
izontal one; it will not separate those
| of illustrious lineage from those of
humble birth; it will not separate the
rich from the poor; it will not separate
the educated from the uneducated; it
occupation; but it will separate those
with the tastes, spirit, assumption and
traditions of the aristocracy from those
who believe in a government controlled
by the people and favor political and
legal equality
MIR. JefYerson's Position.
Jefferson was born of refined and
| well-to-do parents; he was even rich
| for one of that period, and he was
| educated far above the most of his
| associates; he was a lawyer and his
social connections were favorable to
aristocratic ideas but he was DEM
ocrat He believed in the brotherhood
of man; he asked for no privileges
that could not be granted to all; he
claimed no rights that all did not
enjoy, and he sought for himself no
governmental care that he did not de-
mand for others. He believed in the
rule of the people, in their capacity for
government and in their right to
the control of their own affairs. He
did not doubt that they would make
mistakes. but he knew that they would
| bear punishment for their own mis-
| takes with more complacency than
they would endure punishment for the
| mistakes of others, and he was GER
tain that their errors would be unin-
] territorial ones. He knew that, as they
found no profit in bad laws, they
would strive to correct them and
would profit by experience. He was
a friend of everything that helped the
people, and the unrelenting foe of
| everything that injured them. He was
identified with the masses, and. con-
sidered that in so far as by inheri-
| lance or by his own efforts he possess
| ed any advantage over others he held
| that advantage as trustees for those
| less fortunate. The people loved him
! because he first loved them. He or
ganized a party that has lived for
more than century, and he so inn
pressed his ideas upon the party that
no defeat, however overwhelming, has
been able to crush its spirit or dis
| integrate it.
Republicans Arc AristOcratfc.
at is impossible to secure harmony
between people of opposite sympathies.
and it is a difficult thing to change a
mans sympathies; it requires a politi-
cal regenerat ton to make a Democrat
| ont of an aristocrat. 1t is much easier
| task to show man that the prtnci-
nles he has been advocating and the
] nolicies which he has been supporting
| are aristocratic in their present effect
| or in their tendencies. The Republican
marty of to-day is aristocratic in its
| polcleS anu teHueiiOiSS - - .
! trolled by a few in the interest of a.
| few. but there are many Republicans
who remain with their party only be-
| cause thew do not understand the
change which has taken place in that
marty within the last few years When
the policy of party is controlled by
IFS voters. then the party stands for
the will Of the majority but when the
narty is dominated by small minor
itv then the organization stands not
Tor the will Of the majority, but Tor