Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-01-15
They Would Steal the Prestige.


We understand that the Democrats
are ,'tlu- "a celebrate Jack SON dal. One
al tine most amusing thin in political
lie is modern Democratic Jack
celebration. our Democratic friends are
ever protesting, AGAINST the doing Of
ihln-> because il j. unconstitutional !;
JackSpn's motto was. To HI with
the constitution" The nemoc, ats are
auji-imroIiI,i-t-, Jackson robbed spain
oi Florida. The Democrats are for
cheap money and free trade: Jackson
Vas 4 sound money man and a prutcc-
ZIONIST. The Democrats are Tor the mass
a. against the classes; but Jackson was
the most aItocratic and arbitrary boss
who ever ruled a political party in any
country. As matter Of fact, the Demo
Gratis OF this day would be more con-
sistent in gloriiying Mark Hanna than
in worshiping Andrew Jackson.-North
Iahtao, R,PuJiic.
Had not fuggleman Schively reiter-
ated, in substance. the above senti-
ment, We might have taken no notice
OF the paragraph quoted which is
going the rounds of the pewit papers
and was gathered in by the Recorler's
drag-net. His assertion was that the
Republicans to-day are contending for
principles that were upheld by Jeffer.
son and Jackson, and that the party is
composed now OF the same class OF peo-
pie as were the supporters of these
truly great men.
Let us see. Jefferson, when inau-
gurated as the third President, sue
&C eded three Federal and one Repub.
lican (Dem ocratic) administrations.
The differences between the two par
ties had, by that time, become we'll
defined and crystalized into perma-
nent articles of political faith. The
Federal party. though never again
destined under that name to come into
power, nevertheless exerted a potent
influence in national politics. 1t
embraced class Of people who, de.
barred from class distinction by law,
made claim to greater responsibility
than their unassuming neighbors (the
precise claim made now by products OF
the old leaven), the clergy of all de-
nominations Gas now, many of the
noted lawyers Gas now, the larger
manufacturers, the more opulent mer-
chants and influential producers Gust
al now, anL all those who believed
that suffrage and office-holding, and
control of all governmental affairs, be.
longed to the so.called "better class"
Gas some Of the less discreet OF their
number contend to this very day..
This sentiment was represented by Mr..
Adams for reelection.
On the other hand, we find arrayed
the Democrats, supporters of Jefferson,
representing the bone and sinew of the
country, those active spirits who cared
little for inherited name, but who glo-
ried in their individuality, and valued
everything by what it was shown to
be when stripped of the garb Of pre-.
tention. The Federalists represented
class who on the battlefield would do
their fighting in tents while their par
ty opponents bivoscked in the rifle.
pits, and who in the civil service held
the big Offices with little to do, and
true fitness of things, should scramble
though, their political opponent, in the
under the table for such crumbs as
might fall unheeded to the floor. The
men of quick impulses and salient
points Of character were Democrats
and those with an immutable faith in
strong government, supremacy OF the
few, and q Partially for kingly rule
and class distinctions that would keep
the rabble from attempting to assert
an equality of station and rights, were
their opponents Gas they are now)
Those who have studied the charac.
ter of Jefferson will not dispute the
fact that he was a true representative
of the Republican Democracy of those
days, and that his sympathies were
with those who upheld the individual.
ity of citizenship as the unit of free
government. The greater part of his
administration was taken up by con-
tentions with England over the right
of search OF American ships, which
caused the framing of the embargo
act, and caused retaliatory measures
on the part of Great Britain. This
was supplemented by our non-inter-
course act, calculated to remove re.
strictions on commerce that had fol.
lowed the prohibition of vessels within
the jurisdiction OF fhe United States
from sailing to foreign ports. It il
enough to say, however, that the issue
on these measures caused a strictly
party alignment of the classes of men
who then, as to-day, are distinguished
from their opponents by the same
great lines of demarkation.
Jackson, the seventh President, was
elected in 1929, as the champion of
the party that dated its patent Of in.
heritanee from Jefferson, and now
gloried in the name OF Democrats. He
was ono of those dashing geniuses,
born to command and still be an idol
in popular favor from his sympathy
with the masses and his boldness in oil
measures that he believed would ad-
vance the public good. He believed
in party means for attaining results,
and almost his first act as President
was to remove from Office all persons,
including poatmasters, whose political
opinions or acts had been opposed to