Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-07-14

HIVeS OF foreign powers
The Chicago Republican looked at the Democ-
racy's Mississippi chieftain (now a United States
senator). then turned his eyes to the then sub
chieftain. Champ Clark of Missouri. and said:
ct wish to read few words of Thomas Jefferson"
The chieftain looked more than bit startled.
81 read from the Complete Writings of Jeffer-
son. by Ford" went on Mr.. Boutell slowly. 1T
appears from this letter that Adams was just
about to go a business agent of Jefferson to
London, and after giving him several commits
sions, he writes:
lone further favor and am done: to search
the Herald office for the arms OF my family
have what / have been told were the family
arms. but on what authority l know not 1t is
possible there may be none. II So / will with
your assistance become purchaser. having
stearne's word for it that coat of arms may
be purchased as cheap as any other coat
so here we have the founder of the Democratic
party Just dabbling. as 1t were. In syncophancy-.
not very truculent yet"
There was no quick recovery the part of
the Democratic members from this blow. which.
while directed fair at their idol. hit them hard
In glancing. Finally. Mr.. Sulzer. the East SIDE
statesman. recovered sufficiently to ask In what
year It was that Jefferson had commissioned
man to buy the coat of arms. On learning that
It was in the year 1771. Mr. sulzer said. with an
information that showed he had found grain OF
comfort in the thought. That was hve years
before the revolution"
The New York representatives. consolation
l,aorsel apparently not big enough to go
kund among his neighbors with an appreciable
IKE Of each. 1t bit hard to learn after
Et2ty years that the man who wrote the immortal
document beginning with ringing words about
equality had been trying to buy something which
would go to show that he was a trife more equal
than his neighbors; and the blow was like unto
that of a bludgeon, because It was shown that the
supposedly impeccable had more than fnti-
mated that counterfeit coat was as good as
a genuine one If only 1t were nobly emblazoned.
The Republicans had rare time of 1t over the
Democratic discontinue. When It comes to fun
the galleries gloriously nonpartisan. The
humor of the thing to the people aoft well
worth the knocking of prop from the third presi-
dents pinnacle Things might not have been so
altogether bad for the cause of Mr. Jefferson and
his house disciples II Mr. Boutell had been content
to stop, for everybody recognizes the weakness
that all human nature-even that sternly simple
type-has for crests and other family gewgaws.
YES" said the Chicago man. at was five years
before the revolution Now Just before the revolu-
ton on August 25. IT'S. the great founder OF the
democratic party, the introducer of 'truculent
sycophancy' into national administration,
wrote to John Randolph from Monticello urging
a reconciliation with Great Britain and in that
letter he uses this expression:
"T am sincerely of those who would rather
ho IN dependence on Great Britain, properly linn
tad than any other nation on earth. or than on
NO nation
The last FIVE words Of this Jenersontan pro-
,orrcament II would seem. II language means
ANYTHING. point to desire on the part of the
Virxinian Democrat that the colonies should have