The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-05-03
leader. Thomag Jefrersou. became ores

leader, Thomas Jefferson, became pres
ident. He was a man of ideas and
prophetic vision; he saw the POSSIBLE
tiles of the great northwest of which
this state was a part, and he, proposed
and used all the influence and power
of his official position, to induce con
gress to authorize its purchase from
France. This proposition was bitterly
opposed and denounced by prominent
men of his party, and the party was
quite evenly divided in opinion on that
subject and on some less important
propositions of his. Those that sup.
ported him were then and ever after.
wards known IS Jeffersonian Demo.
Gratis, in contra-distinction to the dem
ocrats who opposed his policy. Prac.
ticalIy the same party situation oc-
Cured while Andrew Jackson was
president. He went after the national
bank of that day, which he considered
national robbers, in "Old Hickory Jack
it was said, ordered and compelled the
removal of the national deposits in
such banks to a sub-treasury which he
established; and followed this heroic
work with a notice to John c. Calhoun
and his conspirators in South Carolina,
who had stopped the collection of tar
if duties in the port of Charleston, to
revoke their reasonable acts within
sixty days, or he would send troops
down there to enforce the collection,
and hang Calhoun as high as Haman.
This heroic work aroused tremendous
opposition to Jackson, in his own par
ty; and his supporters for the same
reason as in Jefferson's case, were
then and have " since been known
as Jackson democrats. The same party
situation occurred again at the out
break of the civil war, and continued
to the end of the war. About one-half
of the democrats of the northern states
following the lead of Stephen A. Doug
lass, were in favor of the suppression
of the rebellion by arms; the balance
of the party following the lead of such
men as Vallandingham of Ohio, con
tended that any state had the right
to secede, and that the seeding states
ought to be allowed to go out in peace.
The followers of Douglass though not
leaving the democratic party, were
called Douglass democrats to designate
those of the democratic party that sup
ported the a -
ROOSEVELT REPUBLICANS
Beyond question Theodore Roosevelt
is the foremost statesman and patriot
ard reformer of the age; his coming
was Opportune, not only for the ben
eft OF this nation of people, but for
all the civilized world as well. Kings
and diplomats of all Europe, recognize
his coming as a wholesome, helpful and
powerful intellectual and moral force,
freighted with good to all it comes
in contact with. All honest, liberty
loving. equal opportunity loving peo-
pie of this nation, without distinction
of party, believe and trust in Roose-
welt: because he stands between the
plain people, and the corporations and
trusts, and combinations and contriv-
ances, that have for many years been
robbing the people without punish
ment or restraint, and insists upon en-
forcing the laws we have against the
promoters of all such robbing institu-
tions, and of such further enactments
by congress as shall stop such robber-
les, or consign the robbers to the COM
partnership Of burglars and thieves.
Roosevelt is in favor of everlasting
Iy smashing all corporate political ma
chimes, as proved by his endorsement
of such machine smashing in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere
in October last. He is opposed to free
railroad or other corporation passes,
and proves his faith by refusing all
such passes. He advocates state and
national control of all corporations and
trusts or combinations or cOntrivanceS
that prevent or tend to prevent open
and fair competition in the manufac-
ture or sale of any article or product
needed for use by the people, and in
state and national commissions, to es-
tablish just rates for corporate trans
portation service. All these Roosevelt
ian propositions are approved and ad-
vocated by be South Dakota Roose-
welt republicans, but in the nature of
things the South Dakota corporate ma
chine republicans will not pretend that
they desire to have their machine