The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-01-14
Glowing Tribute Paid to Memory of Andrew Jackson at Thursday
Nights Banquet Under the Auspices of the Young Mems Demo
Cub-Fuy
John 7. Blake Popular Toastmaser.

| our right arms and be reverend"
J The other great speech by president
of the UTited States was Lncoln's
immortal Gettysburg address.
And the two presidents who made
these addresses have been considered
illiterate by the historians of the
country. l thank God for the inlet
tered presidents that have ruled, and
ask him to protect us in the future
from such scholars" of the past sew
en- years.
] jackson had a dignity that came
from nature and ease that came from
absence of self consciousness He
was a gentleman in every sense of
the word and a typical knight of the
days of chivalry. His courtly treat
ment of women and children shows
his true nature better than anything
else.
After a certain battle in the Greek
war, a small Indian child was brought
to him. Its parents had both beer
killed and it was entirely destitute
jackson took the child, raised 1t, ant
educated it into manhood. This ant
many other instances of his love fo
children shows him to be a worth
| follower of the Great Master, in whoT
he was a devout believer. In fact,
more devout man never drew breatl
He loved God, feared God and trust
ed God. 1t was reserved for other
presidents to dispense with the I'm
God We Trust" on the coins. Be-
sides in Jackson's day no one was
greater than God.
1t is true that he was headstrong
and had a fiery temper. He killed a
man named Dickinson in a duel. Dick
inson was the only man whom Jack
son had ever called a liar" After
he had killed Dickinson, there were
no more liars afterwards. He had no
need of setting aside an Ananias club
Fond of children though he was, he
never told people how many children
they should have.
Jackson was a soldier at the age of
13. At the age of IA he was a pris-
oner of war. By some of his admir-
ers, he is described as the greatest
American general but lacking field,
he was unable to display his abilities
However, he displayed extraordinary
military capacity, especially in the war
of 1872 The battle of New Orleans
showed this itself He went there
Ill, and found no troops, and no forti-
fications, with an army commanded by
the brother-in-law of Wellington, COM
posed of the flower of the European
armies, bearing down upon the city.
He gathered together an army, raised
Notifications, met the other Difficult
ties, and destroyed an army which
Wellington had described as irwin
chile.
"A poor boy, who arose by merit,
integrity, character and patriotism to
the highest station in the world. A
soldier who went to meet the foe and
who never returned defeated. A man
who never thought evil of woman,
or spoke a harsh word to a child.
Andrew Jackson will stand in the fu-
ture as the idol of American man
hood"
In such glowing terms did ex-Gov-
ernor James Il. Campbell speak of
Andrew Jackson, portraying him as
the man, the soldier and the states
man.
The last speaker on the program
was John McSweeney of Wooster,
whose subject was Sine Qua Non"
A more fluent speaker so full of glow
ing phrases, inspiring metaphor and
simile, could not be imagined than
McSweeney. Let us be discomfort
with all things except knowledge" he
said. SHOW me a people who are
content and they are going back
wards. Discomfort is the mother of
everything. 1t is discomfort that made
Canton. If Akron rears one smoke
stack, you put up two, and so much
have you been discontented that your
efforts to become contented have al
most extinguished the lights of Mas
sillon. Sine Qua Nom" discomfort
means everything"
He concluded his address by COM
menting upon the excellence of the
Young Mems Democratic club as an
organization, and in remarking about
the many old and familiar faces he
saw about the hall, in which he la
mented the loss Of his friend Will
liam Lynch, now deceased.
So elated and encouraged were the
members of the Young Mems Demo-
cratic club, over the success of the
banquet, that it was announced after
the banquet that the observation of
Jackson's birthday by similar func-
tion, would be an annual affair.