Show JEFFERSON 94 yesterday april 18 was the anniversary of the birth of one ot of the greatest fixtures flu urea la in american history that being the date of the advent upon udon this mundane sabers of thomas jeffer son BOD the event won was fittin fittingly itly commemorated mem mern orated by a democratic oe lebra tion at washington to in the he evening at which william J bryan woe was pronell present as an the guest of honor althou although b the political party named claims claim Jeffe noB as aa its paternal source and thus thua has h some foundation for a partisan oel brat bration ioD it seems as ai though gush aoh occasions should be behold held in respectful respect fol it if not reverent reverential lej regard by all al lolaa classes A f american people whatever their theft politics religion or station jefter sons soula principles were more national natio aal than anything else elee and such snob a thing a clannishness never prominent expression in word or exem io in any act of the great st statesman sta ateer teeman he be was wag a republican in the national na not the be party sense of the worda word and a democrat in the dictionary am wh well as the political of the term form that is by be upheld to in the fullest was maa nor ner possible a republican form of government and believed and proa tided the doctrine of the political aul and social ocial equity of mankind the mind of the student of american history reverta reverie g to the inauguration of jefferson when wit it teasing ceasing or reading of the showy howy deafy which have obtained on oil such occasions in more recent alm and under the auspices of all parties part lee there was etien no 0 great pageant made up of bril limuli uniformed cordone of ef troops great areat columns of gaily equipped siu elki ans z IOB in vehicles on hor horseback and afoot magnificent de decorations coratious evary where strand grand aggregations of ef various organizations representing all the in teresta of the country and the air filled ailed with martial and other music by bands gathered from every part of the nation none of these theme nor any pomp or display of any kind mr jefferson having taken the oath of et coffle a e be bestrode his bis horse rode him to the white house gate and there die dl mounting tied the animal to the tones fence and walked in and took possession in the name of the people of the land which he honored anil and hail had lb honored him the barriers barriera of ceremony and exclusiveness which even ibus 01 early arly had bad begun bogrow to grow up around the executive mansion were thrown down as he be doubtless hoped rod and be liever never more ore to be erected and the plainest and add poorest person in the grand nd commonwealth was made an ae welcome within the he portals of the y home its ae were the self patricians and plutocrat plutocrats of the day how vastly different it 01 an become in the lat halt half a century perhaps the one act which more any other makes secure acure the immortal hab character of jeffersons fame his authorship of the he declaration wan of it 18 at once the plainest and most powerful document over ver penned by mao man while belog being a bill ot t rights in the broadest broa deat sense benee ni the teri lt it Is ia also ro an indictment and of abe th royal ruling power and i it did as ab much toward impressing Impress ini III and hr his minions with the george tf i oree Y tenee earnestness and invincible of the BB as dio dl cho first actual conflict at bunker hill ft brought coherency and cohesion ilat the political and military opera revolutionists it nerved irions ilona of the he cheered their hearts and their belr siryL arm ls steadied died their aim it proclaimed in T beg tones to all the depies pe plea of this florid world for all time that truth and nd honor and add valor and justice the 1 1 right fight and the unswerving in be free are more potent factors tent anft 14 10 in n the feairs of mankind than all ather human buman forces by which our race ivr ver or can be swayed and that W actuated thus thua bodle thus inspired khoa abu determined cannot be kept in it was all in all the amov the Bt object lesson ing motor in greatest greate in human advancement which the world ban baa had bad since ince the one whose precept and practices in behalf ot of ad led him to the arose of cal ary honor to the name of thomas thomaa jeffer an and nd may his hii great adeele dee la an and character rest reat securely with lae the cooling ageel |