Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
The Doubie.Dealer.
From the So. Louis DemoerGa

:, i not acts dishunorably, Ii Schruz
n,yer believed IN the PATRIOTISM OF the he
publican party he was false to every manly
instinct ia accepting it rs the means OF his
seya an 70 rise through party modes and
then affect scorn OF them, Is hypocrisy
To seek power through a party orsAn'zt-
ton, and tnen use the power so obtained TO
destroy tn organizations, Is to add perhiy
to Hypocrisy
A Great Gulf now divides Senator Schurz
from MS party 1t has been created by his
lonp. uuysrving, earnest and lncreas lng op
u0sitiuu to the measures ct his party lie
prote,ts that his motives are patriotic -
Onlv Omniscence can see motives. But
Will rs Il Senator be has long pursued b
course of utter hostility t. his party
measures, what has been. his course toward
his party itself
Iuere are in this natter certain features
THAI require ,ome eXpitnatiorto hnrmoniha
them witn the immaculate purity OF moi
SO often aud so loudly protested hy the CON
scientjous Senator One OF those features
j., tint al his l1i,ueuca Was given to break.
down the Republican organization in h'a
State. while tn ms national Senate lie sJtli
claimed To he In harmony with the national
caucus WITH Republican Senators, III,
bosom friends wnre in caucus with Dem
ocrars in Missouri While he went from
Republican councils in 3 ashington pro.
claim from, his place u,the Senate his de-
votiou to tnc Republican cause and party
his proxies were IN intimate council with the
Democrat, in ~ Louis for the destruction
of the Republican party ct the country
Men claiming to speak for him, men known
TO be in COmmnuic lton with him; men
with whom he Is now VIGOROUSLY associated
aud none OF whose acts he has ever repud
iatel, were here plotting with Democrats
for the destruction of the Republican patty
in Missouri, in order t. destroy that party
everywhere; while he at the same time sat
cloakei rs a friend among Repunl can
chiefs at tie National Capital, and in open
Senate ostenLatlOusy paradcd that cloak OF
friendship ~ order the deaulIer to strike
in concord with his cotraltorJus and Dem
o,raic allies in Missouri and elsewhere
the national Republican, party.
Every one remembers when Schurz was
protesting his devotion to Republican prin
cpleS rs the coun rys first necessity, aud
his Inglnciple ia,th that ia" Republican
masses would triumphlntlY maintain them
while he neeiIes>iy urged his perfectly con,
Cedel right 10 exercise an Independent
Judgment upon each measure Of the Admins
Istrdton. At that hour he and his accred It.
Ell friends were struggling to prevent "a
calamity to be averted from themselves the
reunion OF Republicans here upon any
national Repubtcan platform Whatever,
struggling hand in hand and shoulder to
shoulder with Democrats to convert into Il
national and incurable division breach
which SEIZURE had himself in his reply to
Mr. Drake IN the Senate, characterized as
sro"In1 exclusively oug of a local and tran
sient cause
Mark the full sgnifcancy of this conduct
To the nation S1hln protested to be seek,
ins this and that reform, in and through the
Republican, party; TO believe that the mass
es Of that party we're III sympathy wIth him,
ard TO desire that they would make these
reforms part OF the Republican policy -
la st. Louis where reform Republicans
ii We accept the election of 1870 rs the
eriterlou-were about three times as
numerous AS others, and could therefore
have inscribed their principles on the BAN.
ner Of uni ed party, and made them Of
some effect, his Influence was sulieniy ex
erted against any such reunion. II this
showed ANYTHING, IL showed that what
SChurz aad his friends wanted was not
success through, the Republican party but
success 0 .er 1t. They wished no unity tor
reform, nor any reform through unity, but
to ral>s the reform cry as Il means OF fatal
division. l'hey deliberately abandoned the
power they had claimed to be capable of
welding III the National Convention.