The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-05-24

HIS Defense OF the Republican
Party Made q Whip to
ScOurge Himself.

l
To the Editor the world.
SR-Pcrhaps ought briefly 10 noti
y the article OF Senator Howe, OF Wisco
SIN, III the last number of the Nor,
American Review, entitled as the n
publican Party in its Death STRUGGLE
lhis is the text lie chooses, hut. strano
.ly enough, the sermon which follows
iails 10 answer the question. He prol
'IaDiy remembered that in his late speec
III the senate he answered il in the =
nrmative, but now, in arraigning me 4
an assassin Of his party, he should hav
remembered also that in the sal spccc
he charged its ruin upon its own truste
leaders.
The senator, for some unacountabl
reason, deals with my article as stndie,
defense Of the democratic party. en-
tered upon no such task. Nv subjec
neither involved nor required Il. N,
purpose was 10 show the readiness q
the republican leaders, after the late war
10 condone the vices and profiioacie
which began 10 assume the name Of rc
|publicanism, en the plea thar the demo
'crats could not be trusted, and that M,
country would perish in their hands.
insist that ''thc philosophy which re-.
CARDS q particular party as Of divine m.
poinfment an necessary 10 salvatio,
would place the administration ~ fba
government Ia its hands forever and
tnat while The corrupt and venal clc-
inenis of society would certainly gravi-
tate into IL through its prolonged hold
on power, the good men in its ranks. in.
stead Of joining the other side. OF becsm I.
ing the nucleus OF new party. would
be obliged 10 keep their plac.s ana
quietly submit 10 the unhindered rule ~
rcguery and plunder lest the ounos;to
party should gain power and ruin tbe
eounty." This was my position butl
instead Of meeting the logic by which II
il and exposed this part,
tevl worship. the senator wastes hisI
lime and strength in assailing the demo-
rats. In declining to meet the issue N
endered him be confesses his inabil;tvl
% do so.
The senator surprises the public bv
ienying that the republican party favor
d the abolition Of slavery upon com
,ulsion. Every man who i even super- !,
lcislly acquainted with the history or,
he fjrst two years of the war know |.
hat am right. ] do not speak Of thell
bolition element in the party, but or
be great body of its members. when III
~ that II tried with all It's might toIt
ave the Union aud save slavery with II \
'hc very letter the senstor quotes fromll
ir. Lincoln to Horace Greeley proves
be truth Of the statement he controyerts Il
Thile the proclamation Of emaucjDationIe
lrnishes Official evidence that The great
g was done "as . military necessity. M,
hat the senator means by denying All
Istenient which Is as notoriously fruel,
any fact connected with the war amt
loss TO divine but rather think helfl
eeds liberal diet Of fish. Il,
The senator Is equally entertaining u
"a picturesque ia his attempted dell
nse Of his party. From nv arraion- hi
ent for rs startling misdeeds andln
lines during the past eight or ninc|n
'ars, covering some ten pages, andIw
nbodying undisputcd or well authen- ~
'atcd facts, he picks out some halfri
zen items and pours himself forth "a
'on them in ell the force OF his sena- ~
rial ieebleness. lie says Mr.. Flauna- fr
y was not az the head Of the com lie
'ttcc on education and labor, aud thatIhs
inner was not placed on IL. Thelof
nator ought to know, having been inInf
senate at the time. but he does not Ive
e congressional directory. to whichIfh
invites my attention, fatty contra N I
'ts him. think he should have bcenlco
're ''painstaking." In my article I|he
'nuoned Sharpe, q brother-in- law ofI;u
president, as having been made sur-Ibu
vor Of the port Of New York in vio-
ion Of the civil service rules. The
lator, instead Of meeting nv accusa
2, denies that this particular Sharne -
ne presidents brother-in-law. ~.
70 he il right, and that the Sharne
Q was Q brothcr-in-law, was marshal|cr,
the district Of Columbia: bnt ticI,n
nt is wholly immaterial, and mvItiu
rye stands uncontradictcd. L alsoIls;
ntioncd that one Cramer, anotherof
thcr-In-law, disgraced our diplomaticfor
vice during General Grants first "A -se,
listration, and was afterwards madehu
~ officer at New Orleans. The scna.ll;a
says he was not made n naval officer I,;o
Is still In the foreign service a,ll,as
'enhagcn. Ifso, he Is thus disyrac-IIov
the government abroad instead of All
ie, and the senator seems 10 thinkl I
defense complete. Does he think !
readers are Al fools, or Ia he mentally !
ctcd himself? "'
nc senator denies that Summer wa. I
'en from the chairmanship az ira \
mittee on fnrr;uu ..l.s.-..I q