The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-03
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ORATOR. ARsAlGNED By
i, s, MR.. JOSEPH PULITZER, OF MISSOURI.

THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ORATOR. AIsleAlGSED 81
d, MR.. JOSEPH PULITZER, OF MISSOURI.
The hall Of the Cooper Union was dense
IL crowded last night by men who had as
sembled to hear Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer, OF
Missouri, upon the impending election. 1t
is not too much to say that the honorable
gentleman was received with marked en-
thusiasm. 1t asvery evident the audience
knew the reason why the assistant editor of
the Westtiche Post so quickly followed the
great German American orator III New
York, and that they eagerly awaited Dir.
! Schurz's scariication at the hands OF MIR.
Pulitzer. Nor can it be said they were dis
Iappointed. II one may judge from the
efforts OF the orator last night it is an eX-
ceedingly dangerous thing to turn against
you for good reasonsa man OF capacity who
has followed you enthusiastically In his
youth. II Mfr. SchurZ's moral back is to be
| reached by Mr.. Pulitzer rhetoric, certainly
the former gentleman's back must feel very
sore. AS to the audience, they were very
attentive from the beginning to the end OF
the speech, and as each telling blow was de-
liyered they cheered with the greatest en-
thusiasm.
THE SPEECH.
Mr.. Pulitzer began by saying that he had
come there to answer Carl Schurz-to bury
Cesar, not to praise him. He referred to
the manner in which Schurz had been
stumping the country for the Republican
party, and to the challenge which he had
given Mr.. Schurz to meet him and debate
the issues between them publicly. Mr.
Schurz had answered that he could not do
, so on account OF the disparity OF their rela-
tive positions. Hc (Schurz) had been
minister plenipotentiary, a senator, major
general, &c, and therefore he could not
condescend to enter into the lists with one
e who had never occupied any OF these en-
e allied positions. After having humorously
: and causticalIy referred to their former
friendship the Missouri legislator called
: Mr.. Schurz his ex-friend, the ex-ambassa.
u dor, ex-senator, ex-maio and eX'
{ reformer. Tue portion of the speech which
c referred personally to the ex-senator iron
T. Missouri was extremely pointed and nut
: morous, and evoked frequent bursts OF un
restrained merriment.
:, The really damaging part of Mr.. Pulitzer's
1 address, however, was that in which he
: charged Mr.. Schlrz with being always con-
sistent in his inconsistency. He instance6
n the manner in which the German orator haC
q opposed the nomination and election Of
: Hayes for Congress four years ago; how he
had declared that he never could or would
5 support Greeley, and yet when the latter
!. was nominated by the Democratic party he
e (Schurz) had stumped the whole country fol
: him; how he stumped Indiana for Governor
' Hendricks. and declared himself the hap
piestman in the State on the day of the latter
: election. And now Hayes was the man fol
D whom he was stamping the whole country,
= and he could not endure Hendricks, as as
, sociated with the Democratic party, which
= he (Schurz) protested to call rotten.
After having gone at considerable length
$ into this popularity of Mr.. Schurz's career
the speaker said that what his hearers and
G what men all over the country had to con.
slider was whether they wanted change and
reform or whether they did not; whether
they thought the Administration as it stood
represented sufficiently the honor, integ.
rity, and political morality OF the American
, people; or whether they believed that il
would be good to find some remedy for the
, baseness, the corruption, the fraud and vii.
,lany Of the Republican Administration
during the last sixteen years. Ii they did
not think that change was required, and
that the Government was good enough as ii
stood, then let them vote for Rutherford 3.
Hayes; if the contrary, then let them sup.
port Samuel j. Tilden and Reform. lThese
remarks were received with loud and pro-
lOnSeQ en- erlnS. -H.
Mr.. Pulitzer made an excellent hit when
he eXpatiated upon Carl SchurZ's supreme
solicitude for Governor Tilden's health, and
his fear OF contingencies in the not impos-
sible event Of his DEATH and his alleging
this as reason why Hayes and the Repub-
lican party should be substituted for Tilden
and the Democrats. Another superb piece
OF oratorical dlalectics was the syllogism by
which Mr.. Pulitzer nade Schurz response
;, BILE for the nomination OF Mr.. Hendricks to
the vice-presidency. Inasmuch as il SchurZ
had not stumped Indiana for him. and ma
terially contributed to his election as Gov
ernor, it is certain Hendricks would never
have been nominated for the vice-preSiden-
cy. And yet, said the speaker, this is pre-
) cisely the man whom to-day Schurz cannot
support because he belongs to the party
which the former has deserted.
Mr.. SchurZ, at the 1Fifth-Avenue Hotel,
speaking in the interests of most necessary
reform, and to-day allied with the party
which he wished to reform, make really
good picture, which was relished in the eX-
IRENE by the packed audience, and applaud
ed to the echo. 'a, "."
Another very strong point Of Mr.. Pullt-
zer's speech was where he depicted Schurz
as saying that no man was stronger than his
party, and that therefore Samuel j. Tilden
would have to do all that his party required
him to Go. The premises were hypotheti-
cally accepted in full by the speaker, and
then irresistibly turned against Hayes in
the case of the Republican party. The
speaker then went on to say that the record
Of Hayes was one ID which not single sol-
tary act which meant reform in any sense
icould be found, and challenged any Repub-
lican in the audience (and he knew that
there were plenty present. to get, up and
state such act. The challenge being three
times reiterated, and no champion OF Hayes