Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-07-14

The Chicago Republican looked at the Democ-
racys Mississippi chieftan (now a United States
senator), then turned his eyes to the then sub
chieftain Champ Clark of Missouri, and said:
81 wish to read few words of Thomas Jefferson"
The chieftain looked more than bit startled.
II read from the Complete Writings Of Jeffer-
son., by Ford" went Mr.. Boutel slowly. 'It
appears from this letter that Adams just
about to go a business agent of Jefferson to
London and after giving him several commits
sions, he writes:
zone further favor and I am done; to search
the Herald office for the arms of my family l
have what I have been told were the family
arms, but what authority I know not. 1t Is
possible there may be none If So l will with
your assistance become purchaser, having
Stearne's word for it that a coat of arms may
be purchased cheap as any other coat.
$50 here we have the founder of the Democratic
party just dabbling, it were, in syncophancy-
not very truculent as yet
There was no quick recovery the part of
the Democratic members from this blow, which,
while directed fair at their idol, hit them nara
I1l glancing. Finally, Mr.. Sulzer, the East side
statesman, recovered sufficiently to ask in what
gear it was that Jefferson had commissioned
man to buy the coat Of arms. On learning that
It was in the year It'll, Mr.. sulzer said, with an
lntonation that showed he had found grain of
comfort in the thought, THAT was five years
before the revolution
The New York representatives consolation
morse apparently was not big enough to go
round among his neighbors with appreciate
share of each. 1t was bit hard to learn after
many 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 trihe more equal
than his neighbors; and the blow was like unto
that of bludgeon, because it was shown that the
supposedly impeccable one had more than init
mated that counterfeit coat was as good
a genuine one if only it nobly emblazoned.
The Republicans had a time of it over the
Democratic discontinue. When it comes to fun
the galleries are gloriously nonpartisan. The
hunor of the thing to the people aloft we'll
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 If Mr.. Boutel 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
Eyes" said the Chicago man, cit was five years
before the revolution Now, just before the revolu
ton. on August u.s. ITS, the great founder of the
Democratic party, the tntroducer Of truculent
sycophancy' into our national administration,
wrote to John Randolph from Monticello urging
a reconciliation with Great Britain, and In that
letter he this expression:
go am sincerely one of those who would rather
be in dependence on Great Britain, properly linn
tied than any other nation on earth. or than on
no nation.
The last five words of this Jefersonian pro-
nouncement it would seem, if language means
ANYTHING point to a desire on the part OF the
Virginiau Democrat that the colonies should have