Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-08
CARL SCHURZ ANSWERED.
c.. E. Hoar's Tribute to Blaine
Earnest Words for Irish
American Citizens.
How Cleveland Has Been Voting for
the Last Twenty-fOur
Years.

chusetts President. John Quincy Adams, was.
1 think he means to cultivate friendly relations
with every other nation, especially with those of
Ehe American continent, and he means TO nave
It understood that If an American citizen,
whether by birth or by adoption, goes anywhere
IN the face of the earth. he is to be respected
accordingly. He MEANS think, to sum up his
foreign policy in one sentence-we ask for no
injustice and we will stand no nonsense.
Now should like to ask any Englishman, or
Scotchman, or Irishman in the County OF Essex
II the picture have drawn of the condition or
the workingman that he left behind him, and
the condition of the workingman here, is not
true to the letter. And should like to ask, and
should like 20 have you ask your Irish neigh
bors what reason they can give, while they came
here to get out from under the heel of England,
for voting for the policy which England is eager
to have this country adopt The Irlshman was
q British subject in Ireland, but he didn't have
an American vote. The Irishman who votes the
Democratic ticket in Essex County is ten times
British subject, and, unfortunately, in that
subjecting, he is casting an American vote.
Our Democratic brethren offer to our SURFACES
Grover Cleveland and Gov Hendricks; And
what do you know of either of them? Do you
know anything of Grover Cleveland fit to be
publicly discussed, except that he has been all
his lifetime blind and obedient follower OF a
party always in the wrong? He is 80 years old.
He voted for President in 1860. l don't know
whether he voted for JEFF Davis or for what
other of the Democratic candidates of that
year, but he didn't vote for Abraham Lincoln.
In 1864 the question was put to the American
people, Shall our army be called home in dis
shall the flag be folded up and laid away; shall
the country perish?" Aye, said Grover Cleve-
land. The question was put to the American
people in 1868, Shall the slave continue a slave;
shall the old rebel set his heel on his neck again.
or shall the constitutional amendment, which
makes of the slave freeman. and of the free
man citizen, and of the citizen a voter, be In
scribed on the CONSTITUTIONS" No." said Grow
er Cleveland The question came in 1876.
Eency continue to be debased; shall the Amer
lean coin with which the workmen' s wages, and
the soldiers pensions, end the savings banks
deposits are to be paid. be q debased cur,
how, what does he tell you in his letter of
acceptance and his speech of acceptance?
Shall the great Mormon cancer spread over the
breast of this continent? Shall the South con-
tinue fraudulent voting and criminal practices?
Shall the protective policy on which the work
mans wages and the comfort of his home de-
pend continue? What says Grover Cleveland
as to these questions? He says not one word
upon all these great, vital issues-not one word.
He SAYS simply, Il am chosen to execute the
plans, purposes, and policy of the Democratic
party"-and if he is elected he will do it. And
Hendricks is like unto him, with the single eX-
ception that, while Cleveland has been in OBJ
security, Hendricks has been leader and an
actor in all the Democratic policies OF the past
He sat in the Senate throughout the war, en-
barrassing Abraham Line DIN by every vote he
cast and every speech he made his votes re-
corded against the constitutional amendment
Rbolshing slavery; his votes recorded against
every proposition to raise troops: and he COM
clenQS hllSelf TO the CIVIL service I610rmorS Dy
the declaration that the first thing to be done by
q Democratic administration is to turn out
$4,000 Republican of1ceholders and put $4,000
Democrats in their stead.
Now, fellow-citizeps, I thank God that we
have candidates with no such miserable records
We have candidates-both of them-worthy of
the enthusiastic support of every man. You
know something of the principles, the policy,
the purposes of the Republican party. They
are written in letters of light on your country S
history, as they are in the platform adopted at
Chicago and James g. Blaine has been selected
to carry out the principles, and the policy, and
the purposes of the Republican party. And he
is about to do it, Has there ever been candi-
date since the Republican party was organized
so we'll commended to you as Mr.. Blaine? Did
you know as much about Abraham Lincoln
when you voted for him? Did you know as
much about Grant, in civil life, / mean, when
you first voted Tor him! DID you know as
much about Hayes when you voted for him? I
think the choice of the great Republican party
of this country ought to count for something
They have not made a mistake even when they
took an obscure man, comparatively, for their
candidate. They knew what they were about.
And they have not made mistake when they
have taken the one most conspicuous person in
sivil life in America.
v4Why, they talk about their charges! sup
pose you have heard country lawyers argue d
Ease when they hadn't got much evidence on
heir side-and don't understand me speak
ing contemptuously of country lawyers because
am one OF that kind myself. [Laughter.] But
with almost any complicated state of facts, and
figures and correspondence a shrewd and crafty
man can get up and, by shaking his head, and
thought was innocent was done for a guilty
purpose and with a guilty motive, can make
out an apparently plausible story before some
body who does not know anything about the
case. And that is the attempt in these charges
against Mr.. Blaine. There are four Of these let
ters-all that Mr.. Schurz quoted in his speech
and in his letter-and Ishould like to have them
printed and put into the hands of every Repub-
lean voter in Massachusetts, All there is of
them is the charge that when Mr.. Blaine re-
minded his correspondent of perfectly honest
and righteous ruling, he did it not innocently
and honestly, but for corrupt purpose, and to
imply that If he could make trade with the
man he would do him such favor again Now
think Mr.. Blaine is entitled to the charity with
which you would judge the humblest and the
most obscure man in your own neighborhood
Suppose these letters had been written by a
Waterman in Lynn or a policeman in Haver-
hill, and not by candidate for the great Office
of President. and all his neighbors came for
ward and said to you: This man we have known
from his youth up, through and through; he is
perfectly honest man Suppose the men who
had Quarreled with him and fought so far as in
them lay the high honor which can only be CIV
en- in full by the whole people OF the United
States. What they think of him you can Judge
by the tremendous majority in that State.
What the people of the United States think of
him similar result in November is certain to
show. THE applause which greeted this pre-
aiction was suddenly lushed by binding flash
pfhghtning, followed instantly by tremendous
SoaI of thunder
The people of the State of Name have just
spoken. That is the one community this
earth which would not tolerate a knave if they
could not hide himself il he tried. It stands
believe, at the head of all the communities on
the face of the globe in the capacity to read and
write, in the education of its people. 1t is an
unmixed English blood, and speak of that only
to show that they have been used to self-goyern-
ment and to choose their rulers for two centu-
RES Over and over again Democrats leaving
their party to do it, the people of Maine have
declared their love for and their confidence in
this man. The United States Senate was just
half Democratic when Mr.. Blaine was proposed
TO them by Gen. Garfield for the Office of Secre-
tary of State. Now it would be improper for
me, under the rules Of the Senate, to say
whether he was unanimously confirmed, and I
say nothing about that anywhere; but l have a
right to say, under the rules OF the Senate, that
single objection would have compelled that
nomination to go over at least twenty -four
hours, and that he was confirmed in two min
utes after his name went in Don't you suppose
that these Democratic Senators knew whether
MI Blaine was an honest man or knaveF
And don't you suppose they would have been
swift to condemn him if they had entertained
the latter opinion?
What Mr.. Blaine Says.