Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — Jeffersonian Simplicity. [ARTICLE]

Jeffersonian Simplicity.

A local Democrat conspicuous in more than one National and State campaign and who was much interested in the plain way in which Governor Brown, of Georgia, inducted himself Into office, tells a story about Jeffersonian simplicity that he says, occurred during the first administration of Mr. Cleveland and while Dan Lament was the president’s private secretary. A number of Southerners, prominent in political life, called at the White House, and after they were cordla’ly received by the president and before they took their, departure he requested Mr. Lamont to see thgt they toe re royally entertained. So they were, and the next day Lamont asked his assistant how the visitors enjoyed themselves. “Oh, all right,” said the assistant secretary, “but they complained about a shortage of Jeffersonian simplicity.” “How’s that?” asked Mr. Lament, again, “is -there no more of it left?” “No,” said the secretary, 'that last cask is gone.”— Philadelphia Ledger.