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dispatch to the st. Louis Rep'tblicdn
savs Senator Schurz addressed the Ken
tuckv Liberal Republican convention at
Covington Tuesday morning and made a
brief but stirring speech. In the course of
his remarks be said:
But few months ago, you will, remem-
Der, there we're only few in number rals-
ing their voices against the abuses which
then pervaded the government. they were
laughed at, scOtfed at, sneered at, HdlcuIeG
as Democratic QuiXotes who were engaged
in fight against windmill Gentlemen,
they do engage in that fight, and by tins
time they have found out it was nothing
more powerful than windmill which they
had to contend with. They were told at
that time that ii was mere sacllce TO put
their individual eXeTtiOns against such
tremendous power and popularity as was
in the hands of Grant. When we wit
ness the grand uprising that has since
taken place, We must have learned
that the edifce of the power and
DopuIaritv of General Grant was nothing
but a hollow edifice, and that it will require
but a bold stroke to knock it into ruins.
TCheers But great as the movement has
become we must not underestimate the
difficulties we have still to conquer, and let
me say to You, and / can not impress this
idea too earnestly upon your minds, that
the greatest of these difficulties we have to
overcome is in our own midst. Victory
seems to be within our grasp; indeed, look
ing at the tremendous extent this move
ment has attained, it would appear as if no
power on earth could resist it, and say to
you, no power on earth can resist it if those
who guide it remain trne to the moral i'm
pulses which have set them ahOat. TCheers. |
Senator SchurZ commenting further on the
progress of the movement said that con
sultatiOn merely is not now the word, but
action Immediately following it as the clap
of thunder follows the flash of lightning.
They had, he said, come to place in nominal
ton, and to submit to the sutfrages of the
American people, men whom we feel sure
that in their inmOst hearts and souls are
identified with the great ideas and prin-
ciples we are striving for. In the first
place, he continued, we want to place hon
est men in Ofnce. iCheers In the second
place, we want to place a man at the head
of our affairs who is governed by the high
est toned impulses of a gentleman; and in
the third place, we want to give this cOun-
try President taken from among the first
statesmen this country can boast. Speak
ing further, Senator Schurz said: We want
to have q pure and conscientious Judiciary
system in the United States, and in order
to obtain that, we want to place the judici-
AIRY of the country above the cOrrupting
temptations of political life. We want to
have representatives in the wgiving
branch Of the country, who will not be
mere office dealers, and who will not look
upOn politics as mere opportunity to drive
q hard dicker at horse trade, but we want
men who represent the very best ideas,
feelings and impulses that rise in the pop
ular mind and popular b art.