The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-09-06
TORN TO TATTERS.
THE FINE LOGIC OF soHURz.
An Unanswerable Article From a
German Who was Invited by
Schurz to Attend the Fifth
Avenue Conference:
A LIVELY LETTER.
Ex-LIEUT. GOV MUELLER OF OHIO WRITE
A sCATHING LETTER TO CARL.

EX-LIEUT. GOV MUELLER OF OHIO WRITES
sCATHING LETTER TO CARL.
The following open letter from ex-Lieut.
Gov. Mueller otO 10 to Carl Schurz is suf-
ticient answer to the long drawn out speech
of that interconvertible gentleman. 1t is
taken from the columns OF the Cleveland
Waechter am Erie:
To Mr.. Carl Schurz-The announcement
that you are going to make your debut as
reformed reformer in our beautiful For
est City has been surprise TO me, and no
less o many of your former admirers.
think l understand why the Republican
leaders wish to see the lever for reconvert-
ing the Libsral Germans first applied in our
city; but what L do not understand is
hat you should so readily offer your
as istance. You must have known, since
1872, that the reform ideas, whose seeds
you helped to SOW, took strong root wit
as here, and that these roots cannot be
pulled out without some trouble. 1 do
not think that yo1 are given to the illusion
of being able to republicanize the G. imam
reform elements of this locality, even with
tDe rhetorical mastership that Is your
own. But as the persons who have call
ed you here believe, or at least prstend TO
believe, that such dextrous performance
can be accomplished, and inasmuch as the
liberal Germans are thus exposed to the
humiliatiDg suspicion ofrequiring only an
iutimation from yourself to be converted
this ex plains why you make your first
campaign sp, ech in Germsn,-it is right
and proper 10 protest. Far too long al
ready, far too long
FOR THE HONOR OF THE GERMAN ELEMENT
as well as the honor Of all of us, has the
false idea been worked and speculsted
upon that the German vote can be effec-
lively influenced and controlled by some
one great or small politician; it is high
time TO do away with such notions. But
ia case that your speaking in German is
accidental, and that the influence drawn
rom it be therefore void, must
still avail myself of your pre-
ancs in order to set forth something to me
all-importsnt. Having been a member of
the New York conference, to which you
invited me, 1 feel called and st fed to do
so. Disguised with the corruption OF the
reigning party. without confidence of the
other party, beheld in a conference of
independent patriotic men q ray of hope
for reform. The spirit that prevailed in
the conference surpassed my expectations;
he result of its eli1erstions wac sstisfsc-
tory to me. Although many members
we're inclined to cross the Rubicon imme-
distely, and to use the conference as
starting point for a third party, the opin-
ion of the more prudent members pre-
dominated, w: to remain as yet in po-
sition OF waiting; to issue
AN EARNEST ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE,
and TO found third party only in case
that this address should be unheeded by
the several convt ntions which were to be
held In the immediate future. The address
70 the purpose, edited by yourself, left no
iubt which class OF presidential candi-
dates was meant to be worthy of support.
Che first sections manifestly depicted
the class represented by Messrs. Morton.
Blaine and Conkling, while the other Sec
tions were directed against such candidates
of expediencv "a Hayes and Hartrsnit.
There was not the least doubt OF this in
the contt renee. Nor can the author OF the
address be In doubt OF it. Since this seems
to be TIE case, however, intend to assist
his memory and remind him that when be
cad the ADDRESS be ore me and my friend
on the day preceding the con leronce, and
made US scq quainted with the intent, that
he himsel', after each section had been
gone through with, called the names OF the
candidates that were meant, though not
named; and that after reading to us the
following: "We shall support no candi-
date who, however fsvorsbly judged by
his nearest friends, is not publicly known
| TO pos -ess those qualities OF mind and
character which the stern task of genuine
reform requires, for the American peopie
can not now afford to risk the future of
the republic in experiments on merely
supposed virtue or rumored ability to be
trusted on the strength of private recon-
msndstions." He turned TO us and re-
marked plainly, and as IL 1t were self
evident matter:
''THIs DIsPosEs OF MR.. HAYES"
If we compare this passage, which pro-
nounces the verdict upon Mr.. Hayes, with
the parole likewise issued by Mr.. Schurz,
viz: that this election did not turn on po-
litical articles Of faith as much as on the
personalities of the candidates, not on plat
forms but on the men that stood on them
then we discover the iIrefutsble fact that
not only Mr.. Schurz but the entire confer
ence, all of whom enthusiastically sp-
proved OF the address and the above pas
sage, counted Mr.. Hayes as among those
VINO SHOULD absolutely not be supports d.
and not yet content with this, the confer
ence, by their sweeping approval
OF Mr.. Adsms's speech, fixed
tow or TildeD; and 10 case that neither is
nominate d, reconveDiDg OF the conference.
The position taken By the conference fully
corresponds with my own convictions. IL
was great satisfaction to nae to know
thst so patriotic body of men as were as
sembled there should agree in the points
above mentioned. / took the cause to be
an Garnet he; have remained true to It,
and shall remain true to it in spite OF all
desertefs. How Is 1t with Mr.. Schurz
the instigstor and leader of the confer.
ence; the chairman of the executive COM
mittee, sppointed at his own motion, and
which w-s charged with carrying out the
views and resolutions OF the assembly,.
How Is It with the man that, a. long ago
IS 1861, declared war to the Republican
party, and who. tn accomplish the ruin
OF his parry. in 1872 allied himself with
the Democrats? Is he who for the pasI
Eve years has been using his captivating