Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-28
SENATOR HOWE HAULS THE PnESl-
DENT OVER THE GOALS.
Also Secretary Schurz.
Likewise Judge whitaker, the Dssaul,er.

ate, concerning the criminality of
Judge Whitaker, who tried Ander-
son and sentenced him
Mr.. Howe said that during the past
year we have seen here and every
where throughout the country small
but active squadrons of political in,
quisitors busy with the work of assert
ing that the Republican party was
gathering into hallowed gamers all
those who avow themselves support
ers of the Presidents policy, and
pouring unauenchable fire upon all
the rest Poles have been set up at
all crossroads, flags inscribed with
the Presidents policy have been sus-
pended from them, and selfapponted
inquisitors have lurked in convenient
jungles to detect who did and who
did not uncover the flag. 1t has hap.
pened TO me to be advertised quite
beyond the pale of my own modesty.
1t seems no longer question of mo-
ment whether one be Republican
or Democrat. The absorbing aues
ton is, Does he support the Presi-
dents policy, or does he not? Sir,
have no wish to conceal any opinion
of mine which the public are inter.
ested to know. Nevertheless | have
not hitherto answered to this accusa-
ton. did not like to plead guilty,
for | hoped | was innocent, and | did
not like to plead not guilty for feared
| might be guilty. | withheld no
honest effort to elect Mr.. Hayes. 1t
must of necessity pain me to be found
not in accord with his views, and it
must pain me still more to find he
was not 10 accord with mine. NY
uncertainty arose not from the fact
that | was doubtful of my own policy,
but because l was not sure / under
stood his. My 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
policy / have held toward the States
of the North. / demand only that
every legally qualified elector in every
State, South or North, Democrat or
Republican, black or white, shall be
permitted, updisturbed by force and
unawed by fear, to vote at all cleo
tons and at the place prescribed by
law and nowhere 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 in
Quoted into it. That is my Southern
policy and the whole oft. The very
head and front of my offending
against the South hath this extent, no
more. Concerning Civil service my
policy is not bit more complicated
| would have that service admins
tered by the best men obtainable, and
| believe Republican President
should, as the Cincinnati convention
did, select Republicans for all those
places where harmony and the region
of the administration require its pol.
icy to be represented. However, the
President has selected for his Cabinet
one man who was not Republican,
but Democrat. Still the individual
was SO well known to me, and | be-
lieved so implicitly in the moderation
Of the sentiments and integrity of his
character, that if could not have adj
vised his selection, | could not and
did not complain of it. He had Sc.
lected one other who. although not a
Democrat, was not Republican,
who was equally at home with all
parties and in all places. BY turns
he had been everywhere and had es.
poused and deserted every party. He
spoke like an oracle, and his facile
speech could be fitted to the vicissi
tudes of parties as readily as double
faced satin can be turned to hide the
accidents of society. Inconstant in
everything else, he had been constant
to his trade, that of politics. He en-.
tered upon that before he was of age
and he has pursued it since without
variableness or shadow of turning
HIS first enterprise was to revolution
ize tie Government under which ht
was born, but that failed and he fled
lie was for a short time lawyer il
Wisconsin, but without clients. FL,
was minister at Madrid, but did no
reconstruct the diplomacy of th,
world. He was Major General, bu
perverse history refuses to record hi
victories. He was a newspaper cor
respondent and was unsuccessful. I'll,
| was transplanted in Missouri, and tn,
| generous Republicans of that Stat,
bore him into this Senate. That ele
walton did not prove fatal to him, bu
his party died-died not in spite o
him, but because of him, and unde
blows which he had inflicted. flaw
ing outraged one party and not re
ceived absolution from the other, h
denounced both as machines. Havin.
failed as dealer in legitimate poll
tics, he turned his attention to tn
contraband article. In 1872 he helped
to lead Horace Greeley and B. Graf
Brown to the Baltimore market, an,
taught the Democracy of that yea
that they should call nothing common
or unclean if it promised to bea
Grant. For six years he traduced tn
Republican party probably through
more States with more rhetoric an,
| in more languages than any man liy
ing. Upon that ilIustrious Captain
who from the 4th of July, 1868, t,
the 4th of March, 1877, led the Re
publican party; who always led hi
tparty to victory, and always lifted hi
country to renown; at whose ap
proach but recently the eastern cont
| nent stood up and uncovered, b.
threw more mud than any othe
dredge not worked by steam eve
threw in the same time.
| After reviewing still further Score
tary Schurz's career he took up th,
| Packard case and the Louisiana cleo
ton, and said when the Presiden
was inaugurated Stephen B Packard
was Governor of Louisiana. Within
60 days after that Inauguration b.
ceased to be Governor. When b,
disappeared the will of Louisiana wa
subverted and trampled upon. Suct
an event is always matter of sincere
regret to all who respect republican