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All In 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON nniimiin'cmcmt f the purple of Democratic party this year to the tititniil Jackson day after a lapse of some seven Its political Iris, whateer r I. significance may he, more than pass-InInterest for all Americans. For it recalls mice more an American hero of long ago whose name has become associated not only with certain political symbols, but In a broader sense with something fundamental In the government of this Republic. Ills name and fame ar. nlso recalled in a book, Andrew Jackson An Kpic In Home, pun. by Herald V. Johnson, recently published by Minton, Raich and company of New York, which reviewers are including among the outstanding biographies of the year. Jackson day Is January 8. the anniversary of the Rattle of New Orleans. Not only is this engagement unhiie in history. In that it was fought after peace had been declared between the two nations concerned In it, but it is iniiortant in American history for at least two reasons. One of them, as set fortli by the new Jackson biographer, declares that in winning this battle Old Hickory He of the country. "saved the elaborates on that theme as follows: After three jenrs of calamity and disgrace, here at last vas victory with honor. An American force had met a larger British force and had beaten !t fairly and squarely. Every nation has some had generals, who will lose it an army or a campaign now and then. But as the War of 1812 dragged to Its dismal end. Americans were apparently faced with the Intensely humiliating necessity of having to admit that their generals were all bad Harrison. Indeed, could beat a horde of naked savages, and even a mixed force of British and Indians; but he was the best we had to offer on , January 7. 1815 It was not proved that there lived a single American officer who could stand up commanding regagainst a British regular officer ular troops. But January 8 proved that one man could stand up. Andrew Jackson craved no favors Andrew Jackson could face the troops that broke Tthe g self-respe- Napoleon more, he could give tlmm odds of two to one and beat them. To a country that had almost completely lost faith in itself, to a country that had almost learned to cringe, this news came like a reprieve to a man upon the gallows. It was literaiv crazed with joy, and In its delirium it flung the name of Andrew Jackson against the stars More than that, this same country did not forget its hero a few years Inter when a President was to be elected and so the second reason for the Importance of the Rattle of New Orleans is that It put Andrew Jatkson in the White House. The significance of that is summed up in a recent editorial in the New York World us follows: Andrew Jackson was a victorious geneial ard a man of honor, but hi chief contributions to He his country rest on neither of these fact wilt be remembered partly' because one of his first presidential Rets was to free the country from the tyranny of bureaucracy ard to establish deWhen he entered the White House, he mocracy. found h government dominated by a bureaucracy of constantly Increasing numbers and expandng powers. It was his task to set tilings right showed succeeding a soldier and Americans he the only method of ing generations of He may have been doing so. He fired Job holders harsh and merciless, but he satisfied a great need was the When he country was restored to through, burenuera v its original plan, and the was an unpleasant memory Rut If It is difficult for r:s to realize the heights of Jackson rose a cento which the not especially Imwe are even if or tury ago, hard-boile- hero-worshi- p pressed by Jacksons connection with the origin of certain political traditions In tills country, we cannot fail to be Interested in the eto-- y of his . jAcxsair Qzzzzm& &&mrrxnr career. For an amazing career was that of this hero ot wlmt the new biographer happily calls an epic In homespun. Roth North Carolina and South Carolina claim him a their own. since the rude log cabin In which he was born stood near the line between tin two colonies and there has tong been a dispute as to whether It stood on the North or South Carolina side of that boundary. This dispute, was revived only last November when news dlspatclies carried the story about the finding In an old trunk In an attic In Craddock. Va., of a letter, signed by Jackson. In ISkO, in which lie declared definlely that he was boro In South Carolina. Tennessee, too, calls him her own, since It was site who tent him forth to the wars in which he won glory, who gave bin! to the nation as Its President and who, today preserves his home, the Hermitage near Nashville, as her dearest shrine. Louisiana also has a claim on him and the celebration of his greatest triumph on its annlversar;, which is a legal holiday In that state, Is one of her most cherished traditions. Rut beenuse Andrew Jackson was what he was and did what he did he belongs to all Americans, and for that reason January 8 Is more than a date to he observed by one state or by one political party. It should be a red letter date on the calendars of nil citizens of the United States. Familiar ns are most of us with the school book facts of Jackson's career, there Is yet much for us to learn about Jackson, the man. In the light of new interpretations of his career. In the first chapter of Johnsons biography, which tells How Mr. Jackson. Contrary to All Known Rules. Persists In Living, such an interpretation Is offered in these words: The man is a popular hero in the strictest sense of the word. He Is the hero of the people, not of the intelligentsia. The people still delight In the legends of his prowess, of his lurid language, of his imperious and dictatorial temper. The tale of his usurpations does not appal them, but them, for Americans have always loved really masterful man. If Jackson'a spiritual heir should appear now. there ts every reason to believe America of the Twentieth century would hail him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as It hailed and followed the hero of a hundred years ago. Therefore, he remains a significant figure. Hi faults stand out with startling vividness. His errors are plain to the purblind. His weaknesses are obvious, his follies patent, his egregiousness But the man will not collapse. His inescapable. fame Is etill dear to the hearts of the people, therefore, the prudent man will search diligently for some residuum after the faults, errors and follies have been taken Into account. For If another appears with such dualities, even handicap as gigantic as those under which Jackson labored can nor prevent his sweep to power. And the wise men of that day will be those who recognise him early and align themselves with him not against l.im. It is this that gives him a severely practical significance In the century that has own. succeeded his But to the Impractical idealist, to the dilettante to the curious seeker after the bizarre, the quaint, the colorful. Jackson makes as powerful an as to the student of public affairs. For heappeal was above all else vivid He wfts a great actor and on the national scene he staged the most gorgeous, colorful and romantic show in American history . . When he first came to Washington cer tain senators were Informed by alarmed frierris that he had sworn to cut off their ears. He left the city pensively regretting his failure to either shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun. Yet during his tenure of power he committed neither homicide nor maybe m. Americans have never known how to resist a man who could talk like a pirate and act Tike a Presbyterian ana jacsson could do both to a perfection not approached by any of his successors until the days of Theodore Roosevelt. And he had one great advantage over Roosevelt, y nameiy, a record. Before he came to the Jackson had both hanged and shot men. and . Ptes-ldenc- all the while lie wae In the White House it wae thrUiingly uncertain when he might carry out ome of his threate literally. lie was a canny man, and It Is possible that there never wee a moment when he actually would have hanged Calhoun; but there were several moments when the country believed that If the President could but lay hands on the vice president, the latter day would be numbered Yet the rejoicing galleries had more serious, If perhaps no better, reasons for their plaudits than almply the entertainment purveyed to them by Andrew Jackson. He did throw down the bars that hedged them from effective participation tn the conduct of their own government. He did destroy a sinister alliance between politics and finance thet was swiftly reducing them to economlo serfdom, lie did shatter the Nullification movement, thereby postponing for twenty years the day when half a million of them had to die for the preservation of the Union. All these works were Impermanent, no doubt, but they were effective for the time nnd the place. He richly earned the loyalty that common men gave him Jackson, aa a email boy, comes .reeling Into American hletorv with a sabre cut on his head and as the years gather upon him they gleam with steel and blood. Tt was a roaring career, resounding to the roars of cheering multitudes of musketry, of artillery. It was a theatrical career In the style of Gallic romance, astonishingly like the career that Rostand imagined for Cyrano de Bergerac. . . . . He was a great duelist a great soldier and a great lover. He was fiery, quixotic, honest He was curiously romantic and Inand loyal cessantly dramatized himself and hie surroundings, often to the exquisite embarrassment of more pro- sale men So we see Andrew Jackson. In the perspective of a hundred years, cutting and slashing hia way to power, a raucous fellow, an explosive, heavy-handfellow, but withal a man who had a code and lived up to it. He hated and loved and swore with a magnificence beyond all American experience. But he did not cringe, he did not fawn, he did not carry water on both shoulders. When he lost and he lost heavily and frequent he paid without whimpering. He loved a woman and lost his and of all her. Innumerable wounds that hurt worst and longest. admiration, Against respect and pity one must pile up mountains of crime If they are to Inspire no affection. Affection for Andrew Jackson is impossible to avoid If one knows his story; for let his enemies say what they will, here was one American who carried himself with an air, unlettered, uncouth, unskilled in the graces of polite society, but none the less a chevalier. He is almost the only man who has figured m American public life of whom It is Imaglnaole that he might have quit the earthly stage with the theatrical grace of Cyrano's closing lines' "When I enter God's house my salutation shall sweep the blue threshold with something free from creases, free from stains, which I shall carry In spite of all of you my plume. Although this biographer writes of etents anil personages of a hundred years ago. In the light of present political and econuinU conditions In the nation, the career of Andrew Jackson, as In suggests, has a severely practical significance today. If we believe that history repeats itself and that great events occur in cycles, as some believe they do, then it may be no Idle prophecy that if Jacksons spiritual heir should appear now, there is every reason to believe Ameiica of the Twentieth century would hail him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as It hailed and followed the hero of a hundred years ego. Is there somewhere In the United States, still in obscurity perhaps hut no greater than that which once veiled Andrew ,I,u k"mi-- M hero of the people, not of the intelligent- ia." whom The United States will send to the White House because Americans have always loved a really masterful man? Who Knows but that the United States In this year lfCTls on the eve of as In 1 S'J8 when the frontier great a change as it one own Kind In the White'' Its of put democracy House and that another type of liopinenicy may arise to give us a new conception of a govern m-- a' for the people by the people and of the peoye ed s ELL-ACJ-S FOR INDIGESTION 23i AND Honesty Best Policy Jane and her mother were going down Into the city. A neighbor called and Jane put her hat on to answer the door. Are you. going come where? asked the neighbor. "les, if we can get off early before company comes, replied the honest tomobile. Dora do you really PACKAGES EVERYWHERE t!! Huy Wool Comfort llwll la f I to. 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