Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-18

1t enagrined Jeaerson deeply to see
 hat he had himself assisted at Ham ! llton's triumph. had himself made it complete, indeed. He could not easily brook successful rivalry in leadership; | must have expected to find himself, not Hamilton, preferred in the coun- sels of Virginia president; was be- i yond measure dismayed to see the 1 administration already in the hands,
 as 1t seemed. of man just two months
 turned of thirty-three. He began ere
 long to declare that he had been
 most ignorantly and irnocently made
 to hold the candle" to the sharp work
 of the secretary of the treasury, hay ing been "a stranger to the circum-
 stances" But 1t was not the circum-
 stances of which he had been ignorant;
 1t was the effect of what he had done
 role in the new government.
 When he came to a calm scrutiny oT the matter, he did not like the as- sumption of the state debts, and, what was more serious for man of politi- gal ambition. it was bitterly distaste-
 tul to the very men from whom he
 must look to draw 8 following when had been tricked he knew that he
 had been outrun in the race for lead ership.
 What he did not understand or know how to reckon with was the place and purpose of Washington in the government. Hamilton had been
 Washingtons aide and confldant when ! lad of twenty. and knew in what way those must rule who served under
 such a chief He knew that Wash
 ington must first be convinced and woD; did not for a moment doubt that the president held the reins and was master; was aware that his own plans had pTospered both in the making and | In the adoption because the purpose
 they spoke was the purpose Washing ton most cherished Washington had
 adopted the fiscal measures as his
 1wn; Hamilton's strength consisted in ! having his confidence and support. Washington and Jefferson. Jefferson had slowly to discover
 that leadership in the cabinet was to
 be had, not by winning a majority Of
 the councillors who sat in it, but by
 winning Washington. That masterful
 man asked counsel upon every ques-
 ton of consequence. but took none
 bis own judgment did not approve. He had chosen Hamilton because he
 knew his views, Jefferson only be- cause he knew his influence, ability.
 and experience in affairs. When he did test JeHerson's views he found them less to his liking than he had ex- pected.
 He had taken Jefferson direct from
 France. where for five years he had been
 watching revolution come on apace,
 hurried from stage to stage. not by
 statesmen who were masters In the
 art and practice of freedom, like
 those who had presided in the coun- sells of America, but by demagogues
 and philosophers rather; and the sub tie air of that age of change had crspt
 into the mans thought. He had come back a philosophical radical rather | than a statesman. He had yet to learn, in the practical air of America,
 what plain and steady policy must | serve him to win hard-headed men to to his following; and Washington
 found him a guide who needed watch ing.
 Foreign affairs. over which it was Jefferson's duty to preside, began Of | sudden to turn upon the politics of France, where JeGerson's thought was so much engaged. The year 17S9, in
 which America gained seif-possessioH and set up a government soberly plan
 ned to last, was the year in which
 France lost selfpossession and set out upon a wild quest for liberty which
 was to cost her both her traditional polIty and all the hopes she had of a new one In that year broke the
 storm of the French revolution. It was a dangerous infection that | went abroad from France in those first Jays of her ardor. and nowhere was
 1t more likely to spread than in Amer.
 iea-
 But Washington's vision in affairs | was not obscured. He had not led revolutionary armies without learn ing what revolution meant. ~The rev.
 olution which has been effected in
 France" he said. 'js of so wonderful
 nature that man can hardly real ize the fact"-his calm tones ringing
 strangely amidst the enthusiastic cries
 of the time. T fear, though 1t has
 gone triumphantly through the first | paroxysm, it is not the last 1t has to
 encounter before matters are finally ! settled. The revolution is of too | great A ma Sz5><-s.a "a, ha effected in so