The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-29
Carl schurs IN New York and New
Jersey.

Jersey.
We recur TO Mr.. ScHuRz with some
thing OF reluctance, but more of regret.
With every impulse TO be considerate
In censure. we are impelled to speak Of
his later speeches with irankness and Tree
dom. What we can bestow of commenda-
ton we freely accord.
lie has all through the canvass kept up
10 the standard Of a gentleman, and II he
has been specious aud sophistical, he has
not made himself gross In statement or
malicious in fal.ehood. Between him
aud most of his compeers there has
been no analogy, but all antithesls
We turn to him with unalloyed satisfac-
ton from the sans cluotte BLAINE,
the IIession Bon INGERsoLL- and the
1Ielvetiln KILPATRToK He affords pleas
ing contrast to the perennial GRANT tramp
| Hartman the commercial JOHN L. SWIFT,
| and the lower grade OF Custom House col
porteurs. Nor do we forget another class
OF perambulators of the school of Mr..
PoTIPHAR CURTIS who sugar-coats cal
umny. and APPLETON OAKsMGrH WOOD
FORD, with his dreary platitudes all in
terlarded with false defamation and libel
| lous portrature.
Mr.. SCHuRz Is above all this, and on
general topics stands apart from the
billingsgate OF the hastings. But we
must inquire II such statements rs he
made at Brooklyn the other night about
HAMILTON, and the baptismal JOHN
WILKES BooTH. and the Texas founding
FIrZuUGH, both assigned TO subordinate
pieces. and promptly vacated when these
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his dignity. IL Is IN the knowledge of
Mr.. ScHuRz that all this while MosBY,
the guerrilla. is favorite counsellor at
the White House and a sympathetic sup
porter of HAYES. Such statements belong
to the pad and pampered placeman TO
exc out his tedious harangue, and not 10
an ex-senator who has fame rs an orator.
OF Mr.. SEIZURES financial teachings we
may say few words. We have two
classes Of circulation, the Government
legal tender aud the national bank note.
The redemption of the legal tender in
the golden future OF Mr.. SCHUN will
be in coupon bond. the Resource Of ar
impecunious debtor who pays n demand
obligation by giving n slow note. Gold
fiuctuates in price from 100 to H. VIII
Mr.. SCHURz introduce us to the bank
president or cashier who will now buy
coin ut that premium to make immediate
cash redemption of their notes? But more
than all, our Congress in both branches and
our state Legislatures are crowded with
the officers and stockholders OF these in-
situations. They jostle in their entrance to
the halls, and elbow each other uncom-
fortably in their seats, and at the fervor of
| H.. - AZ oil
ambi ,mity of platforms, OF all the insidiou.
double dealin. Of declarations OF party
faith, there has been none tianscending
this Republican cheat respecting specie
payments Wisely, II not honestly, other
speakers have left the question and crap
pied with otherand more seductive topics
such as new rebrllions. rebel claims, and
blackening of private character; but the
German orator has stuck to this hollow
subject.
or late. Mr.. SCHURz, leaving his other
amusing fiction of civil service reform, has
added TO his repertoire the spook of tn,
rebel debt. But let us leave our rea
debt that is due and not paid, and look
at what has already been sucked from
the Treasury in surreptitious and
false payments-in cotton Claims and
property indemnities. Mr. SCHURz ha,
been resident at the capital. Can he say
how freely the blood OF the exchequer has
flowed TO the skilful lancet OF Mr. CHAND
LER and the topical bleeding of BEs
BUrLERi And this, bear in mind, is no
under rebel or Confederate rule, bu
the unshackled sway of GRANT.
When Mr. SCHURZ holds up tho civi
10 hn
former who is not after the patterl
OF Cincinnati and the HAYES platform
he is not only disingenuous, but make
: himself transfnscd BLAINE or coun
terfeit boutwell, although the bas
coin has more value than the genuine
mintagc. But upon the question Of reform
we beseech hun to inform us whether. II
his philosophic view Of n renovated an'
purified government under the apochry
phal HAYES, the head Of a department is +
{ be er O0iciO an assessor and collector O
a party assessments, a buyer of votes, and
suffer of ballot boxes, while the depart
/ ment over which he is head is run b.
Y chiefs OF bureaus on treadles and clerk
by pulleys. II is q sorry complication 70
sef-appointed leader, who has bee
fastdious in candidates now to forego a
| Of his previous history and labor for tn
administration dc bOniS non of the GRAN
u estate.
S Having been estopped from criticism
= Grantisn, he swclls with a full infecto
}, on reform to n crescendo fulness upon tn
r overworked statements of rebel claim
4 and perturbed vision OF sporadic out
h RACES" The woman who hesitatcs is los
e aud the political orator who explains an
/, defends caunot yindlcate his own consist
II ency or convince the auditory of his sugl,
V mindedness and sincerity.
L Mr.. SCHURz has chosen his course, an
@ he must pay the price of II; but not eve
V the desperation of the cause can justify
70 perversion of statement or n falsihcatio
u of facts. We hold him to his own stan(
70 ard, and it is a higher one than that {
II BLAINE, to whom trutnfulness is dir
s. "reminiscences and personal ..onor an
IS fidelity an obscure tradition What ma
10 be Mr.. ScHURz's place in the Admir-
Is istration of MIR. HAYES may be Of hypoti
10 | esia buf not Of aQtual realization. III