The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-02

can make no appointments, carry no measures.
In fact, have no administration at all wh,,
then must the position Of Door Mr. HAYES moo,
| plainly be1 Already grooming under o,l,,,,te,'-
| for the past, he Is bDttpi Ia solicit their sid D.,
the future. lie will have to depend upon than,
Just hs much after his Inauguration a, be had To
depend upon them for his nomination and ,I..
| tion. IN he Is an honest man. he Ia h,,,d,
them and belongs to them for wh,, tnev ,,u.
done in the past; n he IL prudent ma, h.
doubly belongs to them for what thev NAV do
In the future. As long the worii .xts,s
the creator controls the created, the superio,
| the inferior.
In the face OF all this. Mr.. schurr prc,enls IN
believe that the election OF MIR. Hayes womb in
sure an entire change from the present @ rant Al.
minIstration, com pete departure from IN.
leading men aud measures and Management 20
the parry. Has Mr.. iIayes given any re 50, for
so extraordinary an xpect ttion7 Mr.. : .1utz'.
idea Of reform certainly N cans the utter uolt-
| cal destruction OF the machine" OF Grant and
Cameron. and Morton and Conklins, aud Is In,
ana the hundreds OF thousands OF ofhc .hpld-
Ing or ofhce-expectiug folio vers-ln one ,vorI
OF every "machine" politician Are th.v Ak
bind. that they should 10 zeslously work for
their own desiructioni
Now the question raised by Mr.. Schurz is -, Mn
Soncbodv must be fooled Who Is ~ Mr.
Scburz on one side or the hundre ia OF thon
sands ~ machine politicians and thieves from
| mcmhers " the Cabinet down TO gn,,,,Srs ,nJ
peniteniiarv inmates who Ill Justify cry f,r moor
iayesf ] ak again, who Is most likely TO be
fooled in this barrainI
l. it possible that SIR schurz cannot see all
this nimselfr Or does he really liv. in the
pleas mt illIsion that his influence over Hayes
rom outside The party will he gre tier than that
of the men who have run It for ten ye r., who
dared TO inlpea u johns on. VINO nominated
Grant and ran" hun for seven YEAR. who
d red to Kick even Mr.. Schurz out OF the pariy,N
ana who now have nominated Hiycs to
perpetuate their % Ner2 There IA no pos
men nd he machine" ard that Of Mr.. Schurz
and reform. Tue conflict seems to the not only
irreuiessihle hut utte rly irreconcilable. Yet We
mud sir, sch1rz In sudden alliance with these
corruptiunists united IN tho common EFFORT to
elect common c1ndidstel And though this
candidate stands upon platform eulogizlng
Grants Administration, and though the whole
power o. that Administration ia bent upon MS
election. aud though every enemy Of reform
supports him most heartily, and though his own
record Is that of the strictest partisan ani sup-
porter Of the pr, son. Grant rfatme, aud though
he owes his nomination to that r6ggne and
would owe his election to It, MIR. Schufz eth in-
sists that Mr. Hayes would make great he-
TheJ lea ia monstrously ridIcuousl
Nr Scnurz . either grossly deceived himselfor
only seems so in order to grossly deceive Others
In either case must be sorry for him. and in
neither case zen follow him. And | am glad
to he met by the most unmistakable evidence
tn the same spirit aniinates thousands OF
Others WAC. like myself formerly followed Mr..
Schurzs lead. Especial Is this the case with tho
German American element of our republic.
know from the most careful examination that
| papers ia ali parts Of the country. over
| twO-thtrtis Qf all In number, and nine tenths
in real circulation aud Influence, are to-day sup
porting not the candidate OF Mr.. Schurz. but
lilden and Hendricks! In fact the number OF
| such newspapers which support HAYES and
Wheeler Ia only sixty-eight. The gre II johty
| OF tue Germans OF the Union do not stand be-
| hind Mr.. bchurz: they stand ngnnst him.
| OF all the able representative Germnns, Mr..
| Schurz Is almost the only one who does nos
support Tilden and reform. The unhoy al,
| ulncs betwecn Mr.. Schurz and the I'm achine'
politcians will be fritless 40 far as the Germans
| are concerned. They love the country Of theiy
| adoption too much to wish a continuation %
the pre- ent era Of shame ana disrtce. rhev
want thorough nation house cleaning. want
new and clean hands In high places, W mt re-
| form; ani their good instinct leads them to eK-
poet the vital changes SO sOrev needed for the
Il n 4 hoaor not from Nr. Uayes who me ans thu
status q1iO hut from the man who stands To day AZ
| the foremost practical hefurpier Of the republic
who. regardless Of party. has purified the most
corrupt Government Of the fret city Of the Vest
| ern world and the frat State OF the Union. and
utterly annlhilated the most gigantic organiza-
| tons for public plumber that ever existed until
| Grants associates set up greater one.
Sincerely yours. JOSEPH PULITZER-
| SARATOGA july 81, 1870.