Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-16

cross IL before an admirlng world, and
he plunged--and Schurx was great no
more. Ills improviscd party fell in
hopeless defeat, and the mon who 70.
Gently nominated Hayes have howled
their delight over bis disaster, have
spit In his face, have kicked and cuffed
him from Grant the President TO Orvil
the petty trader, and to-day scarcely
endeavor TO conceal their mingled pity
and contempt for the deceit that he
unwittingly employs to renew the
power that points TO the overthrow
and humiliation Of Schurz as among
its most savory victories.
In May he called the better elements
Of Republicanism about him in New
York to teach parties their duties.---
Here and there men hearkcned and
came 10 sit in council with him, and
the ideal Presidential candidate was
pictured in beautiful word.painting for
the country. Those who would gaze
upon il need but turn to another col
umn Of this Journal. 1t is the poetry
Of Carl Schurz the dream of the rest.
less revolutionist; the ftful fash Of a
hope that perishes in its birth but il
painfully teaches how falsehood may
win n lodgmcnt in an honest effort
through the caprice Of a metcoric brain.
In every paragraph we quote from the
trcnchant pen of Schurz at the Fifth
avenue conclave, there is the most
pointed condemnation of Rutherford b.
Hayes as Presidential candidate
He sat in Congress four years and was
silent. No abuses called him TO utter
ance; no wrongs made him lisp reform
no effort of his life has made him ter.
ror to cvil-doers. lie is the candidate
Of the men who speak and act for the
organization OF the party to-day, and
who have Kissed the name OF Schurz
with undying resentment because he
is not a thief nor the friend of thieves.
He was created by Grant and Morton,
and Conkling and Cameron, and has
in them partisans who outstrip even
Schurz in their zeal for his success
Behind them are Babcock and Shep-
herd, and Kellogg and Pinchback, and
Patterson and Mcdonald, men in pri-
son stripes and men who fear about
prison stripes in the future, oil trem-
bling lest the reform candidate Of Carl
Schurz may fail of an election. They
have driven Bristow, Mr.. Schurz's
Presidential candidate, from the Treas
ury, with every faithful officer who
aided him they have made Pratt seek
retirement because he was honest !;
they drove Jewell out to illustrate
Hayes civil service reform by giving
the Post Office patronage over to Nor
ton TO carry Indiana for Hayes; they
made Dyer bite the dust because he
sought to punish the guilty Hender-
son was dismissed because he ventured
to approach the truth in the temple Of
justice, and Wharton is deposed for
fidelity to the law. These are not
Grants acts; they are the acts Of the
leading, controlling friends of Mr..
Hayes; the authoritative oracles for
him and his party. They have sane
toned every Presidential wrong, and
Hayes is dumb as the sheep before the
shearer, as Morton and Conkling pros
titutc the whole Grant civil power to
advance Hayes election, and Cameron
If breeding disorder and death in the
South to make the ballot-box declare
bayonet victories for Mr.. Schurz's can
didate. Such is the entertainment to
which Carl Schurz invites himself to
reform a nation.--Phitddaphia Times.