Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-17
SENATOR HOAR.
A Letter Effectively Meeting
MIR. Carl Schurz's Charges
Against Blaine.


Against Blaine.
Mr.. Schurz says that the election of Mr.. Blaine
will be declaration by the American people
that honesty will be no longer one of the re-
quirements of government. l think Mr.. Schurz
is entirely mistaken here, also. 1t will be a
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.. Blaines conduct and letters
what Mr.. SChurz thinks he finds there. 1t will
be 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 a declaration that
they agree with Mr.. Curtis, who declared that
Mr.. Blalnes v1ndicat1on of the principal charge
against him 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 repre-
sentatives of a 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 q
declaration that they agree with Garfield when
ne made him Secretary of State, and with the
almost half Democratic Senate when they,
without an instant's hesitation, confirmed him
Mr.. SGhurz says: "The friends of Mr. Blaine
say his offense has been condoned" They say
no such thing. They say he has been triumph
these foul and injurious charges. They say
that in this complicated matter these repeated
tokens of public confidence and affection ought
to outweigh million times the breath of rumor
and of Islander, or even the possibility of an adj
verse Interpretation of the meaning of a 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 it differs from
other instruments in this: 1t is an indispensa-
BILE 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,
honor, and glory of your country. It is an in
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 etfectually 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
1t 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. No man knows this better than Grover
Cleveland. I am chosen" he says ito repre-
sent the plans, purposes, and policy of the Dem
ocratic party" If elected he VIII do it. James
6. Blaine is selected to execute the plans, pur-
pOS6S ana pOllCY OF Une RepuDuCan party. And
he will do it. You may not like the general the
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, if you vote for Grover Cleveland. If 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 a lifetime to honest cleo
tions in the South. You suffer the great Mormon
cancer to spread over the breast of the republic
which
land has Enthusiastically planted himself. That
is that if 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.. Blaine's is as a
mole-hill to the Allegheny Mountains, he de-
clares 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 it will be lie. Hither-
to it may have been a mistake But since he
has reminded you that they were ready to sup
port Mr.. Edmunds, you will lie if you repeat
the statement. Well, it is true, they favored
the nomination of Mr.. Edmunds, who is a pro-
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 OF 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 as those who oppose
him They make no distinction between pub
lie and private virtue. If a man be not con-
trolled 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 or
/ 1aI0 D,-oc5
we do not mean to help any party to gain the
Presidency by crime.
I 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 followed the rebellion, but less
absolutely than in the twelve years of admins
tratlon OF Washington and John Adams. That
is equally true if we compare the last twenty
years with the first twenty under the Constitu-
tlon. 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 indefensible
reluctance to accept evidence of guilt against
| political associates. But in the main these are
cases where dishonesty has been detected and
remanded to public life by Republicans them
| selves. The party has been growing better and
better. 1t was better in 66 than in '64 better in
76 than in '6S, better in 'S4 than in 80 Atten-
ton is called to the fact that there are unworthy
| men still conspicuous. think it likely. Wher-
| ever victorious army is on the march YOU will
| see these vultures flying in the air The COM
| pany of men who have formed hasty and I'M
| JuSU Judgment OF Mr. Blaine contains manV
! persons whom I love and honor MANY Of
whose friendship am proud. They have been
i honestly misled. But in the main the honesty.
! purity, education, strength of the nation IS in
| the Republican party. The men who saved the
nation are more patriotic than those who tried
| to destroy it. The men who abolished slavery
| love freedom and labor better than the men
who struggled TO preserve it. The men who
! paid the debt are more honest than those who
tried to repudiate it. The men who kept the
currency sound are better fnanciers tb an those
who tried to debase it, The men who stand for
fair elections in the South are more fit to be
trusted than the minority who are hoping to
seat their man in the Presidency by murder and
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-
tirpate Mormonism than with those in whose
eyes Grover Cleveland is the standard of per-
sonal excellence. The men who have achieved
the independence of American manufacture
whose policy has called our vast industries into
life, and who would exert every force which
Government can rightfully WELD to keep up the
rate OF workmenS wages, are wiser and more
far-seeing than those who would put these great
interests under the heel of England again, and
let the price Of American labor be determined in
the British market.-LetteT IN Worcester
(MQSS.) Spy.
A Cleveland BOlter.