Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-07-21

The Chicago Republican looked at the Democ-
racy's Mississippi chieftain (now a United States
senator), then turned his eyes to the then SUBJ
chieftain. Champ Clark of Missouri, and said:
II 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 on Mr.. Boutell slowly. 1T
appears from this letter that Adams was Just
about to go business agent Of Jefferson to
London, and after giving him several commits
sions, he writes:
Zone further favor and am done: to search
the Herald ONCE for the arms of my family. /
have what have been told were the family
arms. but On what authority I know not 1t is
possible there may be none II 80. 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
$50 here we have the founder of the Democratic
party just dabbling, as 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 hard
IN glancing. Finally. Mr.. Sulzer, the East side
statesman recovered sufficiently to ask In what
year 1t 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 a grain OF
comfort in the thought. THAT was i've years
before the revolution"
The New York representatives consolation
morsel apparently was not big enough to go
round among his neighbors with an appreciable
share of each. It 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 60 to show that he was q tride more equal
than his neighbors; and the blow was like unto
that Of q bludgeon. because 1t was shown that the
supposedly impeccable one had more than init
mated that q counterfeit coat was good as
q genuine one If only 1t were nobly emblazoned.
The Republicans had a rare time Of 1t over the
Democratic discontinue. When 1t comes to fun
the galleries are gloriously nonpartisan. The
humor Of the thing was to the people aloft 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 If Mr.. Boute 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. ut was Ave years
before the revolution Now just before the revolu-
tion on August Is. 1775. the great founder OF the
Democratic party, the introducer OF truculent
sycophancy' into our national administration,
wrote to John Randolph from Monticello urging
q reconciliation with Great Britain. and in that
Letter he uses this expression:
"T 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 I'VE words of this Jeffersonian pro-
rouncement It would seem, II language means
.nsthine. point to a desire on the part Of the
viteiuiap democrat that the colonies should have