The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-07
The Great Jsnsrsonian Mr.terr.

President ROOSEVELT in his Louisville
speech set the pace for the disciples Of
JEFFERSON who are soon to celebrate his
natal day; or, il a horse racing simile
shall be rejected, the President prescribed
a text for the numerous Jefferson day
orators when he said:
Upon all the important questions. the questions
that innnteiy transcend mere partisan differences.
We are fundamentally one. For the questions OF
foreign and internal policies. the points upon which
there can be no proper division on party lines. In.
nnltsly tIosed In number those upon which there
can be such division, and shall do ell that In me
lies to Justify the hope TO which you have Tiven
expression and to Try 10 show myself President Of
all the people OF the United States
What could be more manly? The Pres
ident put aside, as il in reputation, the
ungenerous things he had written in
youth Of JEFFERSON and JACKSON in his
Memoir Of BENTON He said at Louisville.
lam glad, Is say. OF the spirit that makes you
wish 10 dedicate statues IKE this OF JEFTERSoR,
like the great statue Of CLAY on the other side OF
the court bousr. nhs nre thing 70 keep a sense OF
historic continuity with the past and there 10 one
statue that ! wish the memheh In the national
Congress from Kentucky 10 b put up by the
national Government. and that IL national statue
Of ASDBFv JACKSON and the vIctos Of the battle Of
New Orleans"
Probably the President did not intend
to be understood as prom ising to bestow
on the Parker Democrats or the Bryan
Democrats 4s per cent. Of the offices.
JEFFERSON wrote to GALLATIN on Oct.
20, 1923. when Washington was filled with
Democratic candidates to succeed Mon
ROE, warning him not to believe there
are no longer parties among us; that they
are all amalgamated that the lion and
the lamb lie down together in peace He
told him that the same parties existed,
but under other names, because the name
OF 1Federalist' was extinguished in the
battle Of Nov Orleans, which Mr. RoosR-
WELT would have Kentucky vote to COM
memorate.
JEFFERSON warned GALJATIN that the
Federalists had abandoned monarchism
TO espouse Capitalization Il would have
been equally true 20 hav3 said that the
cruel pistol Of AARON BURR, by killing
ALEXANDER HAmLroN-,lurum et ren-
erdbie nomen-sCattered The brains Of
the Federalist organization
The disciples OF JEFFERSON will, OF
course, mediate on these things and
expound them when they cOmPare the
political principles Of JEFFERscy with
those Of ROOSEVELT, bearing it In mind
that principles are the beginnings, the
first source, from which everything IA,
or becomes, OF is known. Which are now
the political principles on which, as Mr..
ROOSEVELT says, we are fundamentally
one peoplep In regard TO which is there
an opposition TO the President now repre-
sented by the disciples Of JBFFERsoNY
The JeIersoniRns Of New York have
announced their orators and the topics Of
the several orations, They are:
Judge WHILST. AlAhamS. Democracy and the
Young Lsadsu'; AUGUSTUS VAN WICK. TIT
Word Of Gran: Representative HENHT T. RAuSut,
ilhhoh me Revival Of Democracy; J. W. KHHN.
Indiana, NO Room for Two Trust PArtlss': senator
y. ". CLINloE. Tennessee, No Surrender: Mayor
GEoR0H n. MCCLELLAN, The Democracy otoreA,er
New York'; D-cADI HEAlIcH. The Dsmocrscy
Of the state; ALTON y. PlREEH, The Future Of
DenocTGey.'
A few Of the topics seem naturally 70
bark back p JEFFERSON Whether or