The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-11
SENATOR H0AR.
A Letter Effectively Meeting
MIR. Carl Schurz's Charges
Against Blaine.

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| Mr. Schurz says that the election OF Mr.. Blaine
| will be a declaration by the American people
that honesty will be no longer one OF the re-
quirements of government. think Mr. Schurz
! is entirely mistaken here, also 1t Will be
| declaration on the part or the American people
| that they do not agree with him In his estimate
of Mr.. Blaine. 1t will be declaration thatthey
! do not find in Mr.. Blaine's conduct and letters
| what Mr.. Schurz thinks he finds there. IL will
| be a declar alton that they agree with DR. Clark
when he paid Mr. Blaine his glowing trlpute 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 vindcation OF the principal charge
| declaration that they agree with Mr..
Blaine's neiehbors, of his own district
| and of his own State, with the repre-
sentatives 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 =
| he made him Secretary of State, and with the
| almost half Democratic Senate when they,
without an instants hesitation, confirmed him
Mr.. Schurz says: THE friends of Mr.. Blaine
| say his offense has been condoned They say
no such 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 n million times the breath OF rumor
and of SANDER, or even the possibility OF an adj
| verse Interpretation OF the meaning OF single
! phrase He says that our answer is only the cry
| OF party think him mistaken in this also.
| Your party Is but the instrument by which free
| men execute their will. But 1t differs from
other instruments in this 1t is an indispensa-
| bic instrument. 1t Is an instrument made up
| CT men, and, practically, OF all the men who
| wish TO accomplish the things you wish to &C
complish, and deem vital to the prosperity.
| Ia m N
| strument itself possessing intelligence, Judg-
ment, conscience purpose, Will
| A majority of that party must necessarily de-
| termine its plan of battle, and the commander
| under whom it will fight. And when you sepa-
| rate yourself from the party whose principles
and purposes are yours, You efiectually 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
| Mountain or Five Forks, that you didn't approve
the plan of battle or didn't like the general, and
that, for that day only, YOU would go over TO the
enemy or fight in another place. You cannot do
il without being deserter. No matter whether
| 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. 10 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" If elected he will do it. James
Il. Blaine is selected to execute the plans, pur-
poses, and policy of the Republican party. And
he will do it. You may not like the generaltthe
commissioned authority of the Republican party
side, with the Democratic party, against the Re-
publican, on everything on which the two parties
differ, If you vote for Grover Cleveland. II You
elect Cleveland you abandon further hope of
civil service reform for this generation. You
take the side of free trade against protection.
You bid farewell for lifetime to honest cleo
tons in the South. You suffer the great Mormon
cancer to spread over the breast OF the republic.
There is but one thing on which Grover Cleve-
land has Enthusiastically planted himself That
is that II elected, he will be party instrument.
What he said in his speech of acceptance, he
echoes in his letter. In that feeble document,
which. as compared with Mr.. Blaines, is as a
mole-hill to the Allegheny Mountains. he de-
clsres that when the party has outlined its
policy and declared its principles, nothing more
Is required OF the candidate than the suggestion
of certain well-known truths" Is he for pro-
lection? 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 anybody here
after charges that the opposition TO Mr.. Blaine
is free-trade movement IL will be a lie. Hither-
to it msy have been q mistake. But since he
has reminded you that they were ready to sup
port Mr.. Edmunds, you will lie IL you repeat
the statement. Well, 1t is true, they favored
the nomination OF Mr.. Edmunds, who is a pro-
tectionist. But Is it not true that every news
paper 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 or an exception? The
men who love, honor, and support Mr.. Blaine
have quite as lofty an ideal OF purity and in.
tegrity in public station those who oppose
: him They make no distinction between pub
lie and private, virtue. II a man be not CON
troiled by the law of right and duty in private
life he is not TO be trusted amid the temptation
of public office. We will vote for no corrupt OF
unclean man for President. AT the same tim
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 tn,
twelve years that followed the rebellion, but les:
absolutely than in the twelve years of admins
tration of Washington and John Adams. That
is equally true If we compare the last twenty
! years with the first twenty under the Constitu-
: tion. 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 a natural, but indefensiblt
reluctance to accept evidence of guilt agains
: political associates. But in the main these ar,
l cases where dishonesty has been detected anC
: remanded to public life by Republicans them
selves. The party has been growing better and
better. IL better in SO than in ga, better il
20 than in 90, better in "a than in 80 Atten
ton is called to the fact that there unworthy
$ men still conspicuous. 1 think it likely. Wher
ever victorious army Is on the march YOU viii
= see these vultures flying in the air. The com
pany of men who have formed hasty and un
: just Judgment of Mr.. Blaine contains many
persons whom / love and honor, many OF
whose friendship am proud. They have beer
q ! honestly mised. But in the main the honesty
! purity, euucatlOn, strength OF the nation Is II
the Republican>party. The men who saved TIT
nation more patriotic than those who tried
to destroy it, The men who abolished SLAYER.
love freedom and labor better than the mel
, who struggled To preserve 1t. The men VIII,
paid the debt are more honest than those wh'
tried 10 repudiate it, The men who kept tn
currency sound are better financiers than thos
v | who tried to debase 10. The men who stand TO
: fair elections in the South are more fit to b.
2 trusted than the minority who are hoping Il
n | seat their man i'm the Presidency by murder an,
o fraud. The purity of the American home, with
| | out which there can be no purity of health any
where, is safer with those who are trying to ex
II tirpate Mormonism than with those in who's
I. eyes Grover Cleveland Is the standard OF per
y | sonal excellence. The men who have achieve,
z the independence of American manufacture
. whose policy has called our vast industries int
q life, and who would exert every force whic
n Government can rightfully WELD TO keep up tn
= | rate of workmens wages, wiser and NOR
o far-seeing than those who would put these grea
r interests under the heel Of England again. an
a let the price Of American labor be determined Il
. the British market.-Letter an Worceste
o LhdssD Spy.
h A Cleveland BOlter.