The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-17
MR.. scHURz As AN HONEST MAN.

this city, referring TO MI Blame
Must vote for candidate whom know,
and every honest man knows, not to be an
honest politicianf9-
he uttered what he knew to be a willful and
deliberate falsehood, and what was, beside, an
insult to hundreds of thousands of men as
good, and honest and pure as he possibly can
be himself; men whose ideas of public and
private integrity are as high, and whose de-
sire for purity and probity in Office is as great
as his own. In addition to this the statement,
if true, is tantamount to the assertion that
self-government is a failure, and the expert
ment of republican government CHASTITY
farce If it be true that every "honest man"
who is now supporting Mr.. Blaine knows him
to be dishonest then there are about four
million and half of voters in this country
| who are themselves dishonest, and
| who are intelligently and with
forethought and deliberation, intending to
dishonor their citizenship, and commit the
very highest crime against patriotism, as Mr..
/
to the perpetuity of the government and the
! future welfare Of the Nation than the COM
mission Of treason in actual arms. Is Mr..
Schurz prepared to go to the logical
result of his statement? Is he pre-
pared, even with his colossal self-conceit-
covered, as he is, with the filthy rags
of supreme self-righteousness, is he prepared
to bring and prosecute this wholesale indict-
ment against at least one-half, if not major
ity, of the voters of the country9 The state
ment of the case, as Mr.. Schurz puts it, is its
own REPUTATION; the very suggestion of it
reveals the superlative falseness and infamy of
the assertion.
| Carl Schurz is a man of much ability He
is man who has done much service to the
| Nation-let it be confessed, for opinions sake
but is Mr.. Carl Schurz the man to stand up
in the face of the American people and make
such charge against themf Carl Schurz
came to the United States as a revolutionist
against the tyrannies of an autocratic German
| government He was welcomed to the warm
embrace of American citizenship Under its
genial and kindly influences he developed what
| there was in him-became minister to rep
resent abroad the land of his adoption; then
was made general in the Union army; then
United States senator; then Secretary in the
executive department Of the government.
The career of no foreign-born citizen in the
United States has been studded with more
honors, has more conspicuously demonstrated
the hberalty, the virtue, the honesty Of the
and he, of all others, should be the last man
to traduce them by wholesale lying, misrep-
resentation and insult We do not now in
dulge in any unkind reflections upon
Mr.. Schurz's conduct as pub
lie mantle tortuous path he has
made in politics-now with this party and
now with that; to-day fraternizing with those
whom yesterday he most bitterly denounced,
and tomorrow party by himself, kicking in
sovereignty under his own hat, and if he sees
| fit to think. that the triumph of the Demo
cratic party, engineered and animated by the
same spirit that sought to destroy the govern
ment by arms, and which during the long
years succeeding has been at all times bitter,
sullen enemy Of the national welfare and
honor antagonizing everything with which
even Mr.. Schurz himself was most intimately
identified; if he believes his duty draws him
into utilization with men who despise and CON
tenn him now as they did when they called
him lying Dutchman,' and charged Fin.
with being q "Hessian," and friend and
agent of public robbers, of course it is his
own business, and none may say him nay.
But even this strange perversity Of nature
does not give him warrant to throw foul false
and infamous Islander in the face Of the wHcla
people.
But suppose we should administer to Mr..
/ Schuz dose of the same treatment he &C
cords to Mr.. Blaine. He assumes that Mr..
Blaine used his official position to further
the interests Of certain railway corporation,
and afterwards received pay for it by becom-
ing the beneficiary of the men interested in
the enterprise. This is the charge and upon
his assumption Of the truth Of the charge Mr..
Schurz proceeds without equivocation, to
denounce Mr.. Blaine as corrupt and unworthy.
Mr.. Schurz was Secretary of the Interior from
1877 to 1881. In $780, near the expiration Of
his term Of Office Secretary Schurz made o
ruling in a land question whereby the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company came into the
possession Of large quantity o.