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Show JMHItM)VS 1U1. Just why our Uemocrallo friends should celebrate todsy as Hie aonlver-tary aonlver-tary ol Thomas J tUtnoii's blitli Is not cltar. The Inst I lographcrs glvo the date as April 2,1711, aud In this no reckonluglsmideot the eleven days added to thecatendarby I'oQregory, an event which occurred along lime before that. That II Is proper not only for Democrats tut for Americans of all thadteof political opinion to ubaervo some day with which that great man's name la atsoUaied Is i.ltogtther pro per, his authorship of the Immortal Declaration alone entitling his memory to such consideration Hut apart from tills, he wat atrlot lu the stormy days of the involution 1 time when the paradoxical conlltlon of rebels being tho only patriots r.vtlled. Ho was the right limn J cf Watlilugtou during tho eight yiart' l'risldentlsl career of the r'atber of tils Country, and soon after becaino 1'retldii t lilni self. Ofarlttocratlo blrlli nnd tralnlog, muchm.reao than Ills dlttlngulthed rival Hamilton, ho nevertheless itivo. caled the ciiiso aud upheld the 1 Islmi of (ho "common pople,"and shs 1-rrJ them from the lucrnschmenu sought to l Imposed liy hslf hearted support era of a rci ubllcati government who caled tbnimlToilVJurallit Disdain, lug tho pomp nn I cenrujny whloh olttlncd and still prevail tt royal courts, Jelleriou threw doivn all barrlera between tho ptolo and the exeiutlvuaud made the Whits House ns accessible as any other In the land. When Inaugurated ttioro was uo glittering pageant, no showy cere monlalt, nothing even faintly suggestive sugges-tive ol royal'y or aristocracy, whllo the dignity and consequence ot lllo occasion were upheld as conaplcuoualy and decidedly aa though It wero a mat ter Involving hundrede of thousand! cf dollars' ezpento Initead of nonu nt all worth titralug. Hiding to tho executlvo mauslon on hortebaok, he dltmounted, tied tho animal to the fence und walked lu unattended, tho doora thereafter being aa wide open lo the humble teller nt to the man cf roll, lions all comers wero trenttd as clll-tsns clll-tsns pottesslug equal rights until by their own act they forfeited such rights. Jefferson was atrlcll) aud truly a Democrat, nationally and politically, though Ilia 1 arty at that time went undorthe name of Itspubll. can. He was a gnat man from any point cf view, made ono ot the beat ot our Presidents, and his followers can do hi in no honor that his ri cord does not Justify; but, as ircvluusly tug. gested, the demontlratloua should 1 ot partake altogether ot artlsauihlpand uot at all of eixcluslvoneii. |