Morris tribune., 1884-09-03
SENATOR HoAR.
The Massachusetts United States
Senator Makes a Very Forci-
BILE Reply to Carl Schurz.

charges made by Carl Schurz in his re-
cent speech against Mr.. Blaine. Sena-
tor Hoar concludes his letter as follows:
Mr.. Schurz further says that the cleo
ton of Mr.. Blaine will be a declaration
by the American people that honesty
will be no longer one OF the require
ments of government. l think Mr..
SEIZURE is entirely mistaken here, also.
1t will be declaration on the part of
the American people that they do not
agree with him in his estimate of Mr..
Blaine. 1t will be declaration that
they do not find in Mr.. Blaine's conduct
and letters what Mr.. Schuuz thinks he
finds there. 1t will be a declaration
that they agree with DR.. Clark when
he paid Mr.. Blaine his glowing tribute
of admiration and honor, when all
these facts were fresh and familiar. IL
will be declaration that they agree
with Mr.. Curtis, who declared that Mr.;
Blaine's vindication OF the. principal
charge against him was triumphant.
1t will be a declaration that they agree
with Mr.. Blaine's neighbors of his own
district and of his own State, with the
representatives of vast majority OF
the Republicans of the country, who
have three times, since all these charges
were made, declared for him as their
candidate for the Presidency. 1t will
be a declaration that they agree with
the Governor and the Legislature of
Maine when they twice in succession
made him Senator. 1t will be a de-
claration that they agree with Garfield
when he made him Secretary of State,
and with the almost half Democratic
Senate when they, without an instant,s
hesitation, confirmed him for that high
office.
Mr.. Schurz says "the friends of Mr..
Blaine say his otfenSeS have been con-
doned." They say no such thing. They
say he has been triumphantly acquitted:
They find him not guilty OF these foul
and Injurious charges. They say that
in this complicated matter, these re-
peated tokens of public confidence and
affection ought to outweigh a million
der, or even the possibility of an adj
verse Interpretation of the meaning of
a single phrase. He says that our an
swer is only the cry of party: l think
him mistaken in this also. Your party
is but the instrument by which free
men execute their will. But it differs
from other instruments in this. 1t is
an indispensable instrument. 1t is an
| instrument made up of men, and, prac-
ticallv. of all the men who wish to &C
complish the things you wish to accom-
plish. and deem vital to the prosperity,
honor and glory of your country. 1t is
an instrument itself possessing intelli-
gence, Judgment, conscience. purpose,
| will.
A majority of that party must neces-
sarily determine its plan of battle, and
| the commander under whom it will
fight. And when you separate your
self from the party whose principles
! and purposes are yours, you ettectually
abandon those principles and purposes.
You might as well say, when the army
| of the Union was about to engage the
| enemy at gettysburg or Lookout Noun
| tain or Five Forks that you didn't ap-
prove the plan of battle, or didn't like
fhe General, and that, for that day
only, you would go over to the enemy
or fight at another place. You can not
| do it without being deserter. No
| matter whether you dislike Grant or
Meade OF Sheridan. The battle on
| which the hope of Union and humanity
hangs is to be fought there on the lines
| they form. No man knows this better
| than Grover Cleveland. Il am chosen
| he saws. ito represent the plans, pur
| poses and policy of the Democratic
| party" If elected, he will do it. James
| G. Blaine is selected to execute the
| plans, purposes and policy of the Re
publican party. And he will do it
| You may not like the General the com
missioned authority of the Republican
| party has selected. But you fight or
| the Democratic side, with the Demo
| cratic party against the RepuDllcan, or
| everything on which those two parties
| differ, if you vote for Cleveland. i
! you elect Cleveland you abandon fur
! Their hope of civil-service reform fol
| this generation. You take the side Of
free trade against protection. You bic
farewell for lifetime to honest cleo.
| lions in the South. You suffer the
great Mormon cancer to spread over
the breast of the republic. There il
but one thing on which Grover Cleve.
That is, that, if elected, he will be q
party instrument. What he said in his
speech of acceptance he echoes in his
letter. In that feeble document, which
as compared with Mr.. Blaine's is as a
mele-hill to the Allegheny Mountains
he declares that when "the party has
outlined it's policy and declared its
principles, nothing more is required OF
the candidate than the suggestion OF
certain well-known truths" Is he fol
protection? Nobody knows. Does he
wish to put down MOrmOnism? Nobody
knows. Is he in favor of repeating the
Tenure of Office law? Nobody knows
There is not a single question at issue
before the people in regard to which
you have any warrant of his action.
except in his avowed purpose to carry
out the will of his party.
Mr.. Schurz further says that if any
body hereafter charges that the Opposi-
ton to Mr.. Blaine is a free-trade move
| ment it will be lie. Hitherto it may
! have been a mistake. But since he has
reminded you that they were ready to
you repeat the statement. Well, it is
true they favored the nomination of
Mr.. Edmunds, who is a protectionist.
But is it not true that every newspaper
and every prominent man who has
come out against Blaine, leaving the
| Republican party this year, has a strong
leaning to free trade? Do you think
| of any exception? The men who love,
honor and support Blaine have quite as
| lofty an ideal of purity and integrity
| in public station as those who oppose
him. They make no distinction be-
! tween public and private virtue. If a
man be not controlled by the law of
right and duty in private life, he is not
| to be trusted amid the temptations of
public office. We will vote for no cor
rupt or unclean man for President. AT
the same time we do not mean to help
any party to gain the Presidency by
crime.
said in 1876, just after the Belknap
trial, that there had been not only less
corruption relatively to the size of the
| country in the twelve years that fol-
lowed the Rebellion, but less absolute
ly than in the twelve years of Admin
stration of Washington and John
Adams. That is equally true if we
compare the last twenty years with the
first twenty under the Constitution.
The Independent address enumerates
some recent cases of dishonesty in high
places. In some of them retribution
has been tardy. In some there has
been natural but indefensible reluc-
lance to, accept evidence of guilt
against political associates. Butin the
main these are cases where dishonesty
has been detected and remanded to
private life by Republicans themselves.
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