Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-23
CARL sCHURz In INDIANA.

az sum % " OAtUFb sympathy even
from his antagonists, and though it is
all natural result of his vacillating
course, we cannot witness without COM
passion the sights and insults which
Carl Schurz is receiving even from
the party whose cause he is striving to
promote.
With the poet Bryant, Charles T.
Adams and other distinguished Re-
publieans, Mr.. SEIZURE took a stand
some years ago against the scandals
which were disgracing the party, and
they published a manifesto in which
they pledged themselves to support
any man who would forward the cause
of reform irrespectively of party affili-
ations. When Mr.. Tilden was de-
clared the nominee of the Democratic
party most of these gentlemen declared
for him as the man they were in search
of; but Schurz, after long hesitation,
declared for Hayes and Wheeler and
reform within the party and he
went to Indiana to carry out that pro-
gramme. He was very soon made to
feel that no such programme was go
ing to be countenanced by the mana
gers of the party whether they were in
spired by Chandler or Morton; that
reform within or without the party
was not to be touched; Grant and
Grantism were to be Endorsed and
the bloody shirt kept waving with
plenty of money imperfectly concealed
beneath its folds.
He disdained the programme: he
denounced official corruption in high
places, and utterly scorned and tram
pied on the bloody shirt and, ever
since, he has found himself gagged
and sighted in Indiana. The Execu-
tive committee refuses to make ap-
pointments for him; the leading men
of the party won't visit him, and in
every way he is made to feel that his
cooperation is not desired. His ca
reer through Indiana, which in in 1872
was a prolonged ovation, is now only
marked by GOODNESS and neglect; the
Radicals give him the cold-shoulder,
and his German compatriots are all for
Filden and Hendricks.
While he was at indianapolis two
comparatively obscure Republican
speakers arrived and were announced
by the committee to speak. Every
body called on them, and Schurz was
left out in the cold. Again last Mon
day several Americans attended the
German meeting at the Academy of
Music, hoping to hear Mr.. Schurz, who
had expressed his willingness to talk
half an hour or so in English if it were
desired but the chairman announced
that the speaking would be only in
German, and requested any of the au-
dience who did not desire to listen to
withdraw before the speaking.
Lastly, when Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer,
prominent German now canvass;ng
the State for Tilden and Hendricks,
proposed to divide time with Mr..
Schurz, the matter coming before the
Executive committee, that body ans
wered the challenge of Mr.. Pulitzer
by refusal on the ground that the va
rious high positions which had been
held by Mr.. Schurz made it impossi-
BILE for him to meet the undistinguished
Pulitzer. This brought upon the I'M
happy Schurz the following singing
epistle from Pulitzer
Hon. CARL SCHURZ-Dear Sir:
| OF course you have read the reply of
the chairman of Mr.. Morton's COM
mittee to my polite challenge for
joint discussion with you through this
State. Of course you know that, as
we both claim to advocate truth and
combat falsehood, yet speak to sepe-
rate MEETINGS, u joint discussion would
be in the interest of truth. Of course
you know that ''stumping" is not an
aristOcratic pursuit, and offices held
in the past establish no rank in the
republic. some of whose greatest men
served as justices of the peace and
town aldermen after they had occupied
| the presidency of the United States
OF course, then, you know the rid
| iculous absurdity of the ground upon
which Mr.. Morton properly declined
! that challenge. Of course, then, you
disapprove of it. You know that |
do not compare myself to you in either
reputation or ability, but, on the con-
trary, recognize what Mr.. Morton
properly claims for you-that you had
been "a minister to Srain, a distin-
guished general, in the army of the
Union and served a full term as
| United States Senator from Missouri"
But while share with you the sin
cere regret of not having held all these
places, has it been my fault? Is want
of years a crime2 And if it is, have
done nothing to mitigate it?
Are you, Mr.. Schurz, not the last
person in the world to set up these IT,
ties as pedestal of superiority? If
you have been Senator of the United
States might you not have some re-
spect for the source of that glory, the
| body of which | was member, though
| it is true, then but a beardless boy?
If you have represented Missouri in
the Senate, might you not remember
| the constitution of that State, one of
the farmers of which, am vain to say,
| was? If you have held the great
political office of major general. why
not remember that |, too, served in
the same army? And if l did enter
| it as a private instead of major gene
raj, was this my fault? Do you not
know that it was done ON the first day
| pat my foot on American soil, and is
| this another crime2 And if have no
reputation as a speaker, this being the
| first time | have taken the stump out
| side of my own State, are you proba-
! bly not responsible for it yourself?
| When you were last on the stump in
this State, then against Mortonism,
did you not keep me out of the can
vass by making me your business as
| sociate and the managing editor of
paper in which you had everything
! invested YOU own in this world? Of
/ course since you have lost my conf
dence, | have lost yours, politically
and personally. But is this a reason
why we should not have courteous
j&int discussion of the present issues ?
You probably claim that your ability
is as vastly superior to mine as your
reputation Very we'll; but why not
prove it? You can only can do so by
| crushing me in debate, and you cannot
! do this unless you accept my chal-