News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,

aug. 70, 1901.
J.. Evidences multiply each day TIL
e honest, fair minded Democrats al
o becoming heartily sick of the sell-ol
at Chicago, in which Schurz, Curti
Beecher & Co., virtually gained pc
e session of the whole party for fe
y gilded promises that they cannot fu
D fill. One would have supposed tb
! Democratic party had learned wisdor
by experience, but on the contrar
; the same dutch tramp" and his lii
q. tie company, who in 1872 defeate
{ the party by furnishing a candidat
pure in politics, Horace Greedy, ha
again defeated the party by insistin!
on an hermaprodite platform, ant
I placing upon it their ideal OF mora
e purity () Grover Cleveland.
The large German hand of Car
Schurz has been conspicuous in the
independent movement that gave the
Democracy it's defeat in 1872 and its
Halpine boy in 1884. He is the fore
most champion of the quartette who
claim to possess all the purity to be
found in an American political life,
save what is lodged in Grover, and
more remarkable, he claims to carry
the German vote in his left breeches
pocket, and his right he reserves for
the fees obtained in his independent
efforts to assist Carl Schurz to office.
1t is known that Schurz's German
friends in Wisconsin, where he first
made his home in America, have re-
pudiated him; that his old paper, the
Westliche Post, and the Germans of
Missouri, whom he betrayed after
they had given him the highest honor
possible to bestow, have refused to
have part lot with him in his indie
pendent 90 Grover business, and
now the Germans in Washington,
where he has lived six years as Sena-
tor and four years as cabinet officer,
in an address to him direct, strip
from him the mask of purity and hon.
or in which he has posed, and pic
ture him in all his hideous depravity.
Every American as well as. German
should read this ringing afraignment
of the false hearted Carl; we give
only few brief extracts:
You wish the German-Americans
to understand that you have Joined :
reform party. What honest RePubli
cans can dare to compare Hendricks
the outcast of the northern rebels
who, sympathizing with the south
declared the war for the union :
wrong and a crime, with Gen. Johl
A. Logan, for whom, even to-day
the hearts of a million brave union
soldiers beat with affection and love
You once considered yourself fortu
nate to be classed with these BRAY,
Union soldiers.
"You, the deliverer Of Kinkley, art
really to be pitied, that remembering
your former honorable position anC
your advanced age, you should nov
be branded with the faint of treason
which you take with you into a dis
honored grave. Ignominy and scorr
take the place of affection. You
scheme is, however, nothing new in
history. The colonists had their Ben
edict Arnold, the freedom-loyins
Hungarians their Georgey in 1910
and in 1884 the Republican party ha'
its ex-Major-General Carl Schurz
You will not receive thanks from you
new Democratic associates they may
desire the treason, but they despist
the traitor.
"How cana man with clear eye
and open heart dare take the place o
defender of Hendricks, the accom-
plice of Jefferson Davis? How can {
man of honor pollute the friendship
of such statesmen as Everts, Sher
man, Devins, Ramsey, Thompson
Maynard, etc, with whom you acted
in the cabinet of President Hayes2
"a feeling of woe and shame comes
over us when we see the fair and hon
Orable past which belongs to you sink
ing slowly but surely into disgrace
and oblivion" 40
Assistant Secretary Joslyn, of the
Interior, is making for himself rep
utation for earnest. vigorous action,
for clearness of reasoning, and hon.
esty of judgment that has rarely char
acterized more preteHtious officers.
1t can be said that his decisions re-
Gently made in pension cases appealed
to him have been the clearests and
fairest ever rendered by the DEPART
ment. He has a vigorous way of
putting things, and so justly, too,
that none can find fault thereat. The
intruders on the Oklahoma lands or
dered out of the Indian Territory, re-
Gently requested to be allowed 10 re-
main until they could remove their
stock without damage to themselves.
Mr.. Joslyn, who fully understood the
character and methods of these in
truders, refused their request. The
order of the army to remove all per-
sons on the lands in violation of law,
will be carried out. The cat
tlemen went into the territory without
permission and must suffer the conse-
quences.
Recent investigations go to show
that enormous theft of public lands
have been made by cattle men in Col
orado, Dakota, Nebraska and other
portions of the great west. 1t is es-
timated that 100000 acres of land
have been occupied and fenced in by
these cattle men, two companies alone
having 100000 acres. Not only
so, but colossal frauds have been dis
covered of parties pushing fraudulent
land entries. These parties will all
be punished, as Commissioner Nc
Farland, of the land Office, will not
allow of frauds or depredations while
he holds the power in that bureau.
While Puck has been selling itself
to the little four combination of indie
pendents, of whom Carl Schurz is
head, rival has grown up that is
destined to be the popular pictorial
paper of the county. We refer to
Ihe%Jadge,- of New York, which
from the beginning has been on the