Show JACKSON DAY This Is Jackson day the eightyfifth anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans Or-leans when al the hands of the Southwestern South-western riflemen the brotherinlaw o the great Wellington w ith 2000 of his I trained veterans verc killed 1 and which battle gave the Boers an idea of how to fight the Brlllsh army Ever since that date has been Jackson day Of late years It has become 0 sort of u saint day to the Democratic party This and the anniversary of Jeffersons birth are their two saint days though In their lives Jackson and Jefferson were not good friends at all Neither did Jackson like George Washington Wash-ington and refused in Congress to Indorse In-dorse with his vote Washingtons farewell fare-well address However his Is a name that the Democracy conjure by and every ev-ery year they meet amid calling up that name fondly believe that they advocate ad-vocate what he would advocate were his r rlt recalled to earth So today they will In his name preach against expansion as though Andrew Jackson would not have kept everythlirg Inviolate violate which was his countrys So again some of them will claim that had Jackson been President he would have avoided a war In the Philippines As though Andrew Jackson would ever have avoided n war when there was I a chance to fight We fear that the old mans memory I will be rather more slandered today than it has been for several years But we trust that at all the gatherings gather-ings one fact will lifle l kept In mind and that is that Andrew Jackson was always al-ways an American and that where any of his countrys interests were threatened threat-ened his fortune his sacred honor and his life wore held as nothing If his country I needed them |