Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-07-20

The Chicago Republican looked at the Democ-
racy's Mississippi chieftain (now a United States
senator), then turned his eyes to the then sub
chteftain Champ Clark of Missouri and said:
Il wish to read a few words of Thomas Jefferson"
The chiefta1n looked more than a bit startled
~ read from the Complete Writings of Jeffer-
SON, by Ford" went on Mr.. Boutell slowly ut
appears from this letter that Adams was lust
about to go as a business agent of Jefferson to
London and after giving him several commits
sions, he writes:
lone further favor and l am done; to search
the Herald Office for the arms Of my family.
have what l have been told were the family
arms, but on what authority l know not 1t is
possible there may be none. If so, l will with
your assistance become a purchaser, having
Stearnes word for 1t 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 trucuent as yet
There was no quick recovery on the part Of
the Democratic members from this blow, which,
while directed fair at their idol, hit them hard
In giancing. Finally, FIR. Sulzer, the East side
statesman, recovered sufficiently to ask in what
year it was that Jefferson had commissioned a
man to buy the coat of arms. On learning that
1t was in the year It'll, Mr.. Sulzer said, with an
information that showed he had found grain Of
comfort in the thought. That FIVE years
before the revolution"
The New York representatives consolation
morsel apparently not big enough to go
round among his neighbors with appreciate
share of each. 1t q 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 tri1e more equal"
than his neighbours and the blow was like unto
that Of a bludgeon, because it shown that the
supposedly impeccable tne had more than init
mated that a counterfeit coat as good as
q genuine if only II nCbly emblazoned.
The Republicans had rare time of i. over the
Democratic discontinue When t comes to fun
the galleries glorionsly nonpartisan Tie
huuor of the thing war 10 the people aloft well
worth the knocking of E rr@7 from the third presi-
derts pinnacle. Things might not nave been so
altogether bad for the cause Of Mr. Jefferson and
his house disciples If Mr. Eouell had been content
to stop, for everybody recognizes the weakness
that all human nature-even that sternly simple
type-has Tor crests ard other family gewgaws
Yes" said the Chicago man. "it FIVE years
before the revolution Now, just before the revolu
ton on August %, IT'S. the great founder of the
Democratic Iarty. 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 these who would rather
be in dependence Great Britain, properly linn
tied than any other nation on earth, or than en-
nation"
The last five words of this Jeffersonian pro
nouncement II would seem, II language means
Rnyt rg point to desire the part of the
NireiOAn Democrat that the colonies shond hive