Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-09-10
SENATOR HOAR
Letter Effectively Meeting
Mr.. Carl Schurz's Charges
Against Blaine.

F#E AS dAk4St 0Aou1Ca
" ~. Echurz says that the election of Mr.. Blaine
MI btA declaration by the American people
3 = honesty will be no longer one Of the. re-
( 6lfSments Of government. think Mr.. Schurz
81 entirely mistaken here, also. II will ne a
= faesasioe @ the part od ths A American people
81 M Blaine. M wlIf be Z Declaration That they
do not find in Mr.. Blaines conduct and letters
what Mr. Schurz thinks he finds there. 1t will
be a declar stion 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. It 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
declaration that they agree with MT
and of his own State, with the repre-
sentatives Of vast majority Of the Republicars
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 q
declaration that they agree with the Governor
and the Legislature of Maine when they twice
in succession made him Senator. II will be 3
declaration 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
Mr schur. says: "The friends of Mr. Blaine
say his offense has been condoned.' They say
no sach thing They say he has been triumph
| antly acquitted They find him not guilty Of
these foul and injurious charges. They say
that in this complicated matter these repeated
tokens OF public confidence and affection ought
| to outweigh a million times the breath of ruInor
and Of SANDER, or even the possibility of an adj
verse interp. citation OF the meanirr Of ,,,,rie ,
phrase. E ..ys ,nar our answer is only the cry
| OF party. think him mistaken. in thi. also,
| Your party is bus the INSTRUMENT by which free
ten execute II thftr i ,a Ia hut t ditigs from
| CT men, and, practically, of all the men who
| wish to accomplish Che things you wish to ac-
complish. and deem vital to the prosperity,
sly sss hsenas sad
| ment, conscience, purpose. VIII.
| majority of that party must necessarily de-
tcrmine its plan OF battle, and the commander
4 under whom it will fight. And when you sepa-
rate yourself from the party whose principles
and purposes are yours, you etiectually abandon
those principles and purposes. ion might o.
| well say, when tie artay ef the Uniee was ebont
| to Engage the enemy at gettysburg or Lookout
| Mountain or Five Forks, that you didn't approve
the plan Of battle, or didn't like the general, aud
| that for that day only, YOU would go over to the
enemy or fight VI another place: You cannot dc
| u without beins dc-ertet n" matter whetEe,
| you dislike Grant or Meade or 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 says, to repre-
sent the plans, purposes, and policy OF the Dem
ocratic party" II elected he will do It. James
q. Blaine IL selected to execute the plans, puI,
poses, and policy ~ tire Republican party. Anc
commissioned authority OF the Republican party
has selected. But you fight on the Democratic
side, with the Democratic party, against the Re
publican on everything on which the two parties
| differ, il you vote for Grover Cleveland. If yot
| elect Cleveland you abandon further hope o
civil service reform for this generation. foi
take the side Of free trade agSinst protection
You bid farewell for a lifetime TO Honest cleo
| tions in the South You suffer the great Mormon
cancer TO spread over the breast OF the republic
There is but one thing Oh which Grover Clevc
land has Enthusiastically planted himself Tha
is, that if elected, he will be party instrument
What he said in his speech of acceptance, h
which. as compared with Mr.. Blanes, is as
mole hill to the Allegheny Mountains. he de
clares that when "the party has outlined it
policy and declared its principles, nothing NOR
Is required of the candidate than the suggestio,
of certain well-known truths. Is he for pro
| tection2 Nobody knows. Does he wish to pu
down MormonisIn? Nobody knows. Is he Il
favor of repeating the tenure Of oeice law
Nobody knows. There fs not single question
| at issue before the people In regard to whcl
you have any warrant OF his action. except II
| his ayowed purpose to carry out the will OF hi
| party.
Mr. 6churz further says that If anybody here
| after charges that the opposition to Mr.. Blaih
ia a free trade movement II will be lie. Hither
TO It mqy have been mistake. But since b
has reminded You that they were ready to sup
Mr. Edmands you l. T y trn NE #
| the nomination OF Mr.. Edmunds, who Is a pro
! tectionist. Bat is 1t not true that every news
paHcr ana every prominent man WHO lde com
! out against Blaine, leaving the Repnblica
party this year, has q strong leaning to fire
trade? Do You think OF an exception? III
who love- ana dea, " Mr. oad B1"n IN
} | tegrity in public station as those who oppos
: him They make no distinction between pub
lie and private vae ~ i na man a,tS Pc no, rSa9 eo
life, be is not to be trusted amid the ternptaio
of public Office We will vote for no corrupt 9
: nnclean man for President AT the same tim
do, Tn ha1V auV rfy
+ / said in 1876, jus. after the Belknap tris
: that there had been not only less corruptio
relatively to the size OF the country In th
twelve years that followed the rebellion, but les
absolutely than In the twelve years OF admins
) tration OF Washington and John Adams. Ths
is equally true Ii we compare the last twent
: years with the first twenty under the Constitr
7 ton. The Independent address enumerate
! some recent cases of dishonesty IN high place
| In some OF them retribution has been tardy.
: | some there has been a natural, but indefensib
! reluctance to accept evidence. OF guilt again
political associates. But in the main these al
4 cases where dishonesty has been detected an
. remandcd to public life by Republicans then
Q selves. The party has been growing better an
better 1t was better In '6s than in "a, better
!, '76 than in '6s, better in - than in so. Attel
tfOn liz called to the fact that there are unw0rtf
men still conspicuous. think 1t likely. Whe
Q ever victorious army is on the march you VI
: see these vuitures flying in the air. The con
: pany of men who have formed hasty and vi
: just Judgment of Mr.. Blaine contains MAI
n persons whom I love and honor. many
whose friendship | am proud They have be-
Shonestly misled. But In the main the honest
purity, education, strength Of the nation is
the Republican party. The men who saved y
nation are more patriotic than those who. trft
to destroy 1t. The men who abolished slave
Q love freedom and labor better than the ms
who struggled to preserve 1t. The men WI
paid the DEBT are more honest than those wi
tried to repudiate it. The men who kept I
!, currency sound are better financiers than tho
! who tried to debase it. The men who stand
+ fair elections in the South are more, Mt to
= trusted than the minority who are hoping
!. seat their man in the Presidency by murder a.
. fraud The purity of the American home, wit
;. out which there can be no purity OF health an
y where In safer with those who are trying to 9
tirpatc Mormontsm than with those IN who
:. eyes arpver Cleveland Ia the standard OF p,
= sonal excellence. The men who have nchiev
= the independence OF American manufactu
: whose policy has called our vast industries In
!. life, and who would exert every force viii
!. Government can rightfully WELD to keep up I
! rate OF workmcns wages, are wiser and me
: far-seeing than those who would put these gre
= interests under the heel OF England again, q
Z let the price Of American labor be determined
J, the British market--Lefter IN Horcesi
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