Word: jeffersonianism
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Mayor Hague has been under investigation by a Republican legislature at Trenton. The charges against him have been municipal graft and corruption. The potent Jersey Journal has raked him with editorial criticism. Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague...
...jubilantly in the streets. The Reform headquarters were raided and wrecked. The morning after election Burkitt called to congratulate a Hague police captain at his station. Leaping to his feet, the officer met his well-wisher with "Now you lousy faker, get to hell out of here." Thereupon the "Jeffersonian Democrat" was shunted into the street, to be cursed and stoned by a Hague crowd...
...reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
...elective system is a Jeffersonian principle, but there are salutary limitations. One of the chief pleasures of college dons is to concoct examination papers. They are the last persons to refuse such tests. This aloofness, this excessive individualism, is confined, there is good ground for hoping, to the malignants of the Charles.... Tabulation will reveal the clothes philosophy of our young barbarians, the outward expression of their minds. Doubtless undergraduates of the college now proving itself so unworthy of them will rebuke its want of comity, its rebellion against one of the noblest forms of sociological effort and the spirit...
...Jeffersonian Democracy...