Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-07-14

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:
Il wish to read few words Of Thomas Jefferson"
The chieftain looked than bit startled
Il read from the Complete Writings of JefYer-
SON, by Ford, went on Mr. Boutell slowly 1T
appears from this letter that Adams was Just
about to go as business agent of Jefferson to
London. and after giving him several commits
sions, he writes:
lone further favor and 1 am done; to search
the Herald office for the arms of my family. l
have what l have been told were the family
arms, but on what authority know not. 1t Is
possible there may be none. If So l will with
your assistance become a purchaser, having
Stearnes word for it that coat of arms may
be purchased as cheap any other coat
80 here we have the founder of the Democratic
party just dabbling as it 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.. Suffer- the East side
statesman, recovered sufficiently to ask in what
rear 1t was that Jefferson had commissioned
man to buy the coat of On learning that
1t was in the year It'll, Mr.. Sulzer said with
tntonation that showed he had found grain of
comfort in the thought That was five years
before the revolution"
The New York representatives consolation
morsel apparently not big enough to go
round among his neighbors with an appreciable
share of each. 1t 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 trihe more equal"
than his neighbors; and the blow was like unto
that of bludgeon, because 1t shown that the
supposedly impeccable had more than init
mated that counterfeit coat as good as
genuine one if only 1t were noby emblazoned.
The Republicans had a rare time of it over the
Democratic discontinue When it to fun
the galleries are goriously nonpartisan. The
humor of the thing to the people aloft we'll
worth the knocking Of prop from the third prest-
dents pinnacle Things might not have been
altogether bad for the of Mr.. Jefferson and
his house disciples If Mr.. Bouteu 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 revou
ton, August Is, IT'S the great founder of the
Democratic party, the tntroducer of trucuent
sycophancy' into national administration,
wrote to John Randolph from Monticello urging
a reconciliation with Great Britain, and in that
letter he this expression:
81 am sincerely one of those who would rather
be in dependence Great Britain, properly lin
tied than any other nation earth, than on
nation"
The last five words of this Jefersonian pro-
nouncement 1t would seem, If language
anything point to desire the part of the
Virginian Democrat that the colonies should have