Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18

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with deadly rife fire. moving the
British down i'm windows as II with
some giant acythe. The gallant Tax
enham fell at the head of mis- troops.
and when the British confessed dcscat
at the days erd, Zoo r1dcoats ut
tered the battlefield.
What mattcrcl IT. thai peace had ei-
ready been declared. ard that the poll
tici3ns pEi"Eed censure for Jackson
invasion of Spanish terr;tocT? The
, people loved him for Il victory that
had restored national pride in some
degree, and reiciced III his ;ntrcpidity.
CONTENT in having avenged his
~ dead mother, Jackson dragged his
| Dain-racked bones back to the Her
mitage. but in 1918 he was called TO
take command OF the campaign
against the Seminoles. and again he
defied the law Of nations in fierce pur-
suit of his objective.
1t was from the swamps of Florida
that the Indians ravaged the Ameri-
can frontier. and, with contemptuous
disregard of the boundary line, jack
son crossed into Spanish territory
| burned the Indian towns, hanged
| their chiefs. and executed two British
citizens chiefly responsible for the
| uprisings.
| "Why not?" he cried. MY God
would not have smiled on me had
| punished the ignorant savages and
spared the white men who set them
| on
Once more there was an attempt to
censure him. Henry Clay leading the
politicians, and again the people
roared their approval of headlong
warrior that nothing turned aside
| Tennessee made him Senator in 1922.
great wave of popular enthusiasm
swept him into the presidential cam
| paign of 1924. and only by the narrow
/ est margin did he miss the honor. the
electoral votes standing 80 for Jack
| son, 81 for John Quincy Adams. Al
| for Crawford and 81 for Clay. There
being no ma jority. the election went
to the House of Representatives.
where Clay threw his strength to
Adams.
AS the new Presidents first act was
to make Clay his Secretary of State.
a corrupt bargain was charged in
stantly, but 1t was not that; merely
the last desperate attempt of the Old
Order to retain power.
| Jackson stood for the masses, the
disregarded commonalty of America
| and the aristocratic class, reared in the
oligarchic tradition. joined forces to
sweep back this rising tide of pas
| sionate democracy, political diner
ences forgotten in a common fear and
| hatred.
Jackson, painfully distrustful of
his abilities, had not wanted to be a
candidate, but now he threw himself
| into the capture of the presidency
with all the ardor of his volcanic ma
ture.
The voice of the people had spoken;
that voice had been Knocked. Now
was he moved "by an inflexlble pur-
pose to vindicate both his own right
to the position and the right of his
fellow citizens to choose their Chief
Executive without f1indrance."
Not in all the history of America n
politics is there record of a viler cam
paign than that of 1928. Poor Rachel
was made the great issue. and a
thousand poisoned pens and tongues
poured out a steady stream of SANDER
and vulgarities that had the burn of
/ some vile acid
jackson put his love before her as
a shield, but in the very hour that
news came of her husbands over.
| whelming victory, RachePs gentle
heart broke of its pain.
/ Overturning precedent, Jackson
swept every member of the opposi.
| ton from office, a course that has
been hailed as the Inauguration of
the spoils system. AS a matter of
fact. his motives were personal, not
political. He wanted to destroy all
those who had in any way contributed
to the attack upon his dead wife To
him they were unclean creatures, and
down to the sma Hest man he pursued
them with relentless ferocity.
At every point his love Of Elizabeth
jackson and Rachel Donelson is seen
as the dominant factor In his life
Gen. Eaton. his Secretary Of War. had
married Peggy O'Neal. the daughter
of a tavern keeper, and in order to
have an excuse for snobbishness
Washington society circulated the lie
of improper relations prior to the mar
riage.
1t was his own experience over