The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-05-16
SENATOR HOWE SCOURGED.
THE WISCONSIN SENATOR SHARP
LY HANDLED BY MIR. GEO. w.
JULIAN.
His Defense Of the Republican Party Made a WhlT
TO ScOurge Himself.
To The Edior ofthe World.

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SIR-Perhaps ought briefly to notice
the article of Senator Howe, of Wiscon
sin, in the last number of the Nortt
American RepicV, entitled, "Is the Re
publican Party in its Death Struggle :?
This is the text he chooses, but strangely
enough, the sermon which follows it fall
to answer the question. He probably
remembered that in his late speech il
the Senate he had answered it in the af
frmative, but now, in arraigning me al
an assassin of his party he should have
remembered also that in that same
speech he charged its ruin upon its own
trusted leaders.
The Senator, for some unaccountable
reason, deals with my article as stud
led defense of the Democratic party.
entered upon no such task. My subject
neither involved nor required it. My
purpose was to show the readiness
of the Republican leaders, after
the late war, to Condone the vices
and prohigacies which began to assume
the name Of RepubliCanism, on the plea
that the Democrats could not be trusted
and that the country would perish in
their hands. insisted that "the philos-
ophy which regards particular party as
Of divine appointment and necessary to
salvation, would place the administra'
ton of the Government in its hands for
ever" and that "while the corrupt and
venal elements Of society wOuld certainly
gravitate into it through its prolonged
hold on power, the good men in its ranks
instead of joining the other side, or be-
coming the nucleus of a new party, would
be obliged to keep their places, and qui.
etly submit TO the unhindered rule OF ro-
query aud plunder, lest the opposite par
ty should gain power and ruin tho count.
ry. This was my position; but instead OF
meeting the logic by which supported
it, and exposed this party worship,
the Senator wastes bis time aud strength
in assailiHg the Democrats. In declining
to meet the issue ! rendered him, he
confesses his inability to do so.
The Senator surprises the public by
denying that the Republican party ia.
vored the abolition of slavery upon com
pulsion. Every man who is even super
fcially acquainted with the history of
the first two years of the war, knows hat
am right | do not speak of the aboli-
zion element in the party, but of the
great body of its members, when | say it
tried, with all its might, to save the I'M
ion and save slavery with it, The very
letter the Senator quotes from MIR. Lin
coin to Horace Greeley proves the truth
of the statement he controverts, while
the proclamation of emancipation fur
nishes official evidence that that great
act was done las a military necessity"
What the Senator means by denying
staten ent which is as VIGOROUSLY true
as any fact connected with the war am
at a loss to divine, but rather think he
needs a liberal diet of fish,
The Senator is equally entertaining
and picturesque in his attempted defense
of his party. From my arraignment for
Its startling misdeeds and crimes during
the past eight or nine years, covering
some ten pages, and embodying undis-
puted or well authenticated facts, he
picks out some half dozen items, and
rours himself forth upon them in all the
force of his Senatorial feebleness He
says Mr. Flanagan was not at the head
ofthe Committee on Education and La
Dor, and that Sumner was not placed on
it. The Senator ought to know, having
been in the Senate at the time, but he
does not. The Congressional Directory,
to which he invites my attention, fatty
him. Think he should have |
been more "painstakiug." In my arti
Gle | mentioned Sharpe, a brother in
law of the President, as having been |
made Surveyor 0! the Port OF New York !
in violation of the Civil Service rules |
The Senator, instead of meeting my aC.
ausation, denies that thi particular
Sharpe Is the Presidents brother,in-law
believe he is right, and that the Sharpe |
who was a brother-in-law was Marshal |
lf the District of Columbia, but the point |
is wholly immaterial, and my charge re.
mains unCOntradiCted. | also mention |
hat one Cramer, another brotherin-
aw, disgraced our diplomatic service
Turing Grants first administration, and |
was afterwards made naval officer at
New Orleans The Senator says he was
lot made a naval officer, but is still in
he foreign service in Copenhagen. If
70, he is thus disgracing the Govern
nent abroad, instead of at home, and
he Senator seems to think thrs defense
Does he think his readers are
III fools, or is he mentally afflicted him
elf?
The Senator denies that Sumner was
lriven from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Foreign Relations on aC.
.Ount of his opposition to the San Do
ningo job; and then, in effect, admits it
~ saying that 'if representative body
eally favors the adoption of a public
Measure, it is difficult to say why it
hould place at the head of committee
my man whose employment there would
,ndaDger the success of the measure"
lie then makes another wriggle, by ridi-
uIing the idea that the Senate which re
ected the treaty would have deposed
sumner for opposing it-sneakingly de.
wing the fact that Summers magnif-
.ent fight against it compelled a recreant
senate to abandon it. If the Senator
Knows any fact connected with American
politics, he knows, as does the public,
hat my statement as to the cause of Mr..
summers removal is true; but he seems
% charmingly innocent of a conscience
hat he finds real pleasure in denying
t, although he must know the public
will not believe him.
Equally remarkable are the Senator's
tatements and denials respecting the
New York Custom House investigations
n 1872, his wholesale defense of political
in that institution, and the
transparent pettifogging by which he
eeks to defend Gen. Grants administra-
ion in dealing with the Chorpeuning
lain and the misdeeds of Gen. Babcock.
need not dwell upon these performan-
es, nor can it be necessary to notice his
tatement that | deserted the Republi-