The Portland daily press., 1877-08-31

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american press, to which / renIU az did Mr.
emerson 10 the rhodora, with variations:
never thought to ask, never knew
But in my simple ignorance supposs
Inc selr-same power brought me here that hrorobt
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| Neither of them uttered single denial
The only other attempts at denial have come
IN respect to my statements regarding the an
pointment of MIR. Schneider, and Mr.. Schurz's
receiving payment for his speeches. In each
| and every case they seem to proceed. not like
Mr. Medlirs talsehoods, from natural love of
/ lie, but from certain mental fabbiness which
does not know the difference between truth and
IaIsehood; 70 whose unframed vision words
SIMPLY sprawl over page without any definite
| limitations, and whose unframed hand makes
/ vague infantine clutch after their meanino
| without knowing or needing whether or NOT il
has grasped it. For instance, says one paper:
Gail Hamilton grossly blundered in her statement
OF 1act, when she accused Secretary Schurz and Mr.
George Schneider OF being on intimate financial re-
| lations.
| I never made any such statement or accusa.
| ton.
Another says:
Gail Hamiton's statement that Mr. George schnei
der OF Illinois was made Minister to Switzerland be-
cause he had loaned money long time AGO 10 See
retary Schurz etc. eO w Wv
never made any such statement.
Gail Hamilton should be very careful of her facts
vsrty h should be unassaiabe as to their
My facts are all there are of NV letters NV
whole work consists in the grouping of facts.
MY statements are not unassailable, but they
| are impregnable. No fortress can be SO strong
~ ;nae 1901 may net run his head against it; but
| IL Is his head that Is broken, not the stonewan
Ine New York Evening Post says:
Gail Hamilton endeavored to free herself f,om the
responsibility Of believing this report.
Never No responsibility attaches 10 belief.
Bener IS result of evidence, not of will
Yeh believe because you must, not because you
caoose. l had never heard Of Mr.. Schneider
at tne time OF his appointment, but have
since acquired very well.defined belief re-
regarding his appointment and his resi- gnatiop.
nave, however, no reason to suppose that the
public is interested in this belief and have
never attempted to give it. What did say
was exactly this:
journals announce that the Swiss Mission was to-day
formerly rendered to and accepted by George Schne-
der, 1 atW1ealthy Chicago banker, possessing literary
and artistic tastes, and one of the capitalists who
enabled Secretary Schurz to establish his news
paper at st. Louis,
Will any one of my critics deny this? He
VIII md the dispatch inserted, like any other
item OF news, without doubt or comment. in
the Boston Journal, which was then executing
perfect caraeole Of Reform under date April
| ~, 1S7-probablY appearing in the issue of
| April I'll. preserved only the slip, not the
MY statement was correct in eyery particular.
| made no accusation against Mr.. Schurz or
Mr. Schneider. simply stated what was
said; and 1t acas said, every phrase and word;
and every paper that has accused me Of mac
curacy or inadvertancy, has done so because it
does not b BED the difference between truth and,
| faIsehood.
The New York Evening Post say:
Gail Hamilton gave currency to report, etc.
That is true. 1 did give it currency.
Another paper says:
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Gatl Hamilton took occasion to say that Secretary
Schurz had procured the appointment etc.
report like this to which Gail Hamilton has mad
vertently given currency,
l. never said whether or not I behaved tba
Information to be accurate and no one but my
| self knows what believe
2. never took occasion to say that Secretary
Schurz had procured the appointment.
g. did not give currency to the rumOr inad-
vertently. 1t came within the scope of my
original purpose and plan. l was challenged
Dy the Nation newspaper to give examples of
Reform talk which had degenerated into SLAM
DER. l gave enough to show that it was no
chimera; and then / turned the other side of
the cause uppermost, proved first, that the
Reformers had fiagrantly slandered their op-
ponents, and then from time to time speared
and reared aloft few of the stories that were
| ahoat about Reformers in order, il 1 NAV bor-
row an expressive coloqualism, that the might
know how IL is themselves. Evidently they
do not like it. l am glad of it. 1t is creditabie
to them that they do not like it.
But But they may rest assured that they
| like to be slandered by their op-
ponents precisely as we'll as their opponents
| like to be slandered by them, and the ISLANDERS
which l have circulated for their edification
aud reformation have just as firm and broad
/ liquidation as those which they circulated for
| political effect. Ii was. for instance, on April
| 20 that this Schneider story first appeared TO
| me- and not till June 8, scme time after my
letter had been sent, that the contradiction fol-
If nnal6 hAxn hnA.. Ioss -
| it been done more quickly.
The Boston Journal of June IS says, comic
| ally enough:
Gail Hamilton devotes herself this time to Secre-
tlry Schurz The whole of her assault in the rumor
respecting the appointment Of Schneider to the Swiss
mission: Mental fabbness again. might have
made this the whole Of my assault, but by actual
occupied by the Schneider aair III The faet tSst
Mr. Schurz denied some time since that he ever re-
ceived any such assistance should at least have been
stated in connection with the scandal
Rather cool in the very paper where 1 first
/ saw the scandal without the least intimaton
| that it was a scandal
In my Tribune letter Of Aug. said:
In the public papers have seen the statement
iterated and reiterated that Mr.. Schurz has asked
and received from the Republican State Committee
of Pennsylvania S., 800 for making single political
and again heard it stated fact, so current that
no one thought Of denying it, that Mr.. Schurz
habitually, as a regular business, charged and
charged very highly for bis political speeches; so
that the VI 800 he received in Pennsylvania was
not exceptional, was but small part OF the gross
receipts for all his years Of stump speaking:
attribute no dishonor to Mr.. schurz. do not
say that he had not perfect right TO demand any
sum 81 whatever for bis speeches; but If Mr.. William
Schurz $500 night for his speech Mr.. Schurz is
certainly estopped from characterzing Federal
mercenaries, because they work for money and not
for love alone.
A day or two afterwsrd the Washington Star
| Published IAN interview with Mr.. Schurz IN
| the matter OF the latest statement of Gail
Hamilton that w. 81. Kemble of Pennsylvania
had paid him 81, 800" Stop. I made no
such statement. Twinkle truthfully, little
star! l said that 1 had seen the statement
made In the public papers, iterated and reiter-
ated. "Sehurz replied that the Kem9le story
was utterly false and ridiculous . and
that inasmuch as Gail Hamilton's statements
have repeatedly been shown to be utterly wild
and entitled to no credit he now beforehand
declines to be interviewed again concerning
them" Not quite so fast, Mr.. Secretary. 1t
may be very prudent resolve not to be further
interviewed concerning my statements, but
| not single statement of mine has been shown
to be wild, or has been by one hairs breadth
discredited. said that the Kemble story had
been iterated and reiterated in the public
papers. Will Mr.. Schurz deny that the Kem-
BILE story appeared in the New York Tribune Of
Jnne "a, in the Philadelphia Times previous to
June u, in Forney's Sunday Chronicle of
Washington and in many other papers-differ-
ing somewhat in the disposition of details:
sometimes $500 for single speech, sometimes
for speech thrice delivered sometimes 81 800
for three weeks service, but always the same
in substance-and that its first appearance was
weeks before l commented upon it? Did Mr..
Schurz publish any denial before commented
upon it? saw no such denial.
The New York Evening Post of August
betrays the same ptal habbiness along with
healthy and hopeful disgust for miserable
personalities" and an altogether unhealthy, a
frantically morbid imploring that Mr.. Blaine
| should save himself from shipwreck in Maine
| BY coming out and disowning my lettersl-a
| desire that has hardly been equalled in fnten-
| sity and directness since the mother of the
| young man by the name of Guppy was taken
down stairs very much against her will, her
oice rising stair higher every time her fg-
ure got a stair lower, insisting above all things
that everybody should 'get outp' am writ
ing on the day after the Maine Convention, and
the Post must by this time be reassured with
the tidings that Mr.. Blaine has still spar to
cling to!
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