The Portland daily press., 1872-08-16

oneratiOnS in Virginia ullucr tne DemOcratlc
Legislature and Govemor? This fippant
talk about carpet-baggers, and the inference
that the election of Horace Greeley is pam
acea for the many irregularities of the South
ern States governments would hardly be par
donable in third rate whiskey inspired dem
agogue, but in candidate for the Presidency
is a degrading spectacle and an outrage upon
an intelligent audience. ...
Mr.. Jussen, Senator SchurZ's Brother
in-LaW.
The Liberal papers have been loud and
profllse in their assertions that Mr.. Jussen,
brother-in-law of Senator Schurz, and APP
pointed on his recommendation, was re-
moved from the collectorship of Chicago be-
cause the Senator refused to support the st.
Domingo treaty. Mr.. Conkling, in his speech
at Utica, thus exposes the false and shameful
CHARGE 's... 5.......,.-.- -..,r.-.#
Pleasonton lays one charge at the door of
the President heretofore insinuated by Mr..
SchurZ, which deserves examination. AS
appears by the New York Tribune of July
81, Gen. Pleasonton gave reporter to under
stand that after talk with Schurz about
patronage, Edmund Jusscn, brother-in-law'
of Mr. Schurz, was removed from the office
of Collector of Chicago because Schurz OPP
posed the San Domingo treaty. 1t is time
this story should be tripped on its travels.
MIR. Sohurz asked the appointment of his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Jussen. and the request
was complied with. Mr.. Jussen entered up
on his Office, and in the spring of 1871 letter
from Mr.. Jussen came to the hands of Sem
atp nb,,H xtrhinb latfar T no hold in
my hand. This letter discloses the fact that
Mr.. Jussen was party to some unwhole-
some arrangements connected with his office,
in which money was paid and divided. This
letter on the 10th of March, 1871, was laid
before the President by Senator Trumbull.
Here is Mr.. TrumbulPs endorsement and sig
! nature in his own handwriting: .1lf ~
L respectfully call the attention of the Presi-
dent to the within disclosure relating to the
procuring and holding of office at Chicago.
Very respectfully. $50 n
LYMAN TRUMBULL.
On the next day, March II, 1871 Mr.. JUS
sen was removed from Office in consequence
of this disclosure and the action of Mr..
Trumbull. The President would not tolerate
in office for a single day. man guilty of the
practices Mr.. Jussen's letter confessed, and
yet this removal has been banded from mouth
to mouth for months, to prove that the Pres
ident punished Schurz and made him mar
| tyr for his course in the Senate.
But one thing is needed to complete this
history, and that is a note written by Civil
| Service Reformcr Schurz at the foot of
letter to the President urging the appoint
ment of Jussen for party effect. Here are
the words of Mr., Schun: e'
Fully endorsing the above, beg leave to add
that am, from my own observation, very well
acquainted with the condition of things at Chi
cago, and it is my deliberate opinion that the
interests of the party require proper recogni-
frequently been called upon to aid the Republic
cans of Chicago in their struggles that their
wants and necessities are well known to me.
Very respectfully,
t c. ScHURz.
Here is the same man who deserted his
party, chiefly, as he says, from the opposition
to making appointments. for political effect.
Is this age dwarfish or colossal in its hum
bugs? F 3 'a'.-fl3 'A 9'T-
So we have first Mr.. Jussen appointed on
the earnest recommendation of his brother
in-law, Senator Schurz, for political reasons !;
then his prompt removal for cause on a letter
from Senator TrumbuIl; and then the COM
plants of both these Senators, that men are
appointed to office for political reasons, and
removed to spite Senators who oppose the
measures of the administration q
If the Bangor Commercial gives correct
account of the attack on Mr.. McCrill:s and
his Greeley minnesingers by crowd of Brew
er people, that paper is clearly right in de-
nouncing it as an outrage. However great
the pains taken by these amateur MINISTRIES
to insult their political opponents byChappa-
quacking under Grant flags and otherwise
acting like registering bacchanals, the Brewer
people were very short sighted thinking that
they could mend matters by borrowing the
tactics of their enemies and throwing brick
bats Let violence and outrage remain as
they ever have been, the favorite Demo
cratic means of converting the impeni-
tent. As the case now stands the Brew
er people seem to have brought needless
disgrace on the cause they desired to up
hold, and have fairly balanced the account
that stood so heavily against the Democrats
on the day when they created disturbance
at the great Republican demonstration at
Bangor. Having thus put ourselves on record
in the most unmistakable manner as opposed
to Brewer polemics, we may be permitted to
comment on one curious feature of the trans
action. The Commercial says: Gone stone
which is now in our Office, weighing nearly
touo pounds, hit Mr.. McCrillis in the face,
causing his nose to bleed profusely." ''Bleed
profuselyr' We should think so! Talk about
throwing two pound rocks ''with mlirderous
INTENT" as the Commercial does, and then
say the victims those bEed profuselyp In
heavens name, how came re to have any
nose left? We congratulate the leader of the
Bangor Chappaquackers on his nose. 1t is
the most reliable, impregnable organ of the
kind in America Had he lived in Napoleon's
time he would have been Marshal of France
before Ney himself. eft astonishes eTery-
bodyr'