Nebraska advertiser., 1878-04-04
SENATOR HOWE'S SPEECH.
A SCATHING REVIEW OF THE
PRESIDENTS POLICY.
During Which He Hits the Attenuatcd
SchurZ Telling Blow Between
Wind-and Water.


Mr. Howe said: During the pas
year we have seen here and every
where throughout the country smal
but active squads of political inquisi
tors busy with theswork of ASSERTING
Pc Republican party gatherings into hal
lowed garners-all those who avoV
themselves supporters of the Presi
dents policy and pouring unquench
able fire upon all the rest. Poles hav
been set up at all the crossroads
Flags inscribed with the President
policy have been suspended from then
and self-appointed inquisitOrs have
lurked in convenient jungles to detec
der the flag. 1t has happened to me
to be advertised quite beyond the pale
of my own modesty seeking as all op'
ponent of the Presidents policy. TIC
the doctors of inquisition it seems nc
longer a question of moment wheth-
er one be Republican ora Democrat
The absorbing question is, Does he
support the Presidents policy or. does
he not? Sir, 1 have no wish to con-
ceal any opinion of mine which the
public is interested to know. Never
theless, / have not hitherto answered
to this accusation. 1 did not like to
plead guilty. for 1 hoped / was in-
nocent, and did not like to plead n OF
guilty, for l feared / might
Il be guilty. had withheld no honest
effort to elect Mr.. Hayes. It must, OF
necessity, pain me to be found. not in
accord with his views, and 1t must
pain me still more to find be was not
d. in accord with mine. My uncertain
ty arose, not from the fact that | was
doubtful of my own policy, but be-
cause L was not sure understood his.
Ny own policy is a very simple one,
and may be briefly stated.
Toward the states of the South my
policy has been identical with the pol
icy l have held toward the States of
the North. demand only that every
qualified elector in every State, South
or North, Democrat or Republican,
black or white, shall be permitted, un-
disturbed by force and unawed by
fear, to vote at all elections and at the
place prescribed by law, and no
where else, just once, and no more
than once; that every vote so cast
shall be honestly counted, and that
every person chosen by such votes to
any office shall be freely inducted in
to it. That is my Southern policy.
and the whole of it. The very head
and front of my offending against the
South hath this extent, no more.
Concerning the civil service my pol
icy il not bit more complicated. /
would have that service administered
by the best men attainable, and l be-
lieve Republican President! should,
as the Cincinnati Convention, select
Republicans for all those places where
harmony aud vigor of administration
require its policy to be represented. /
believe, as the President declared in
his inaugural adress, that, once COM
missioned, the officer should be secure
in his tenure so long as his personal
character remains untarnished, and
the performance of his duty is salts
factory. Some things have happened
since the Presidents Inauguration not
at all In harmony with the policies |
have indicated. He has selected for
his Cabinet one man who was not q
Republican, but Democrat. Still q,
the individual was so well known to
me, and believed so implicitly in the
moderation of his opinions, in the just
ness of his sentiments, and the integ-
rity of his character, that if l could
not have advised his selection, could
not, and did not, complain of it.
sCHURz.
He had selected one other who al
though not Democrat was yet not a
Republican; who was equally at home
with all parties and in all places. By
turns he had been every ywhere, and
had espoused and deserted every par
ty.- He spoke like an oracle, and his
facile speech could be fitted to the vi
cissirudes of parties as readily as a
double-faced satin can be turned to
hide the accidents of society. His
critiques upon his political associates
gave him popularity with his political
opponents, and he resembled prophets
in never being without honor, except
where he happened to reside. Incon-
slant in everything else, he has been
constant to his trade. that of politics.
He entered upon that before be was of
age, and has pursued it since without
variableness or shadow of turning.
His first enterprise was to revolution
ize the government under which he
was born. That failed and he fed.
He was for a short time lawyer in
Wisconsin, but without clients. He
was Minister at Madrid, but did not
reconstruct the diplomacy of the
world. He was Major General, but
perverse history refused to record his
victories. He was a newspaper cor
respondent. and was unsuccessful. He
was transpIanted into Missouri, and
generous Republicans of that State
bore him into this Senate. The ele-
walton did not prove fatal to him, but
his party died-died, not in spite of
him, but because of him and under
blows which he inflicted. Having
outraged one party and not yet reeeiv-
ed absolution from the other, he de-
nounced both as machines. Having
failed as dealer in legitimate politics
he turned his attention to the contra
band article. In 1872 be helped to Il