The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
CARL sCHuRz ANSWERED.
q. f. Hoar's Tribute to Blaine--
Earnest Words for Irish
American Citizens.
How Cleveland Has Been Voting for
the Last Twenty-fOur
Years.

Mr.. Blaine has been called lingo. / think
no Is very much such lingo as the last Massa-
chusetts President, John Quincy Adams, was.
think he means to cultivate friendly relations
with every other nation, especially with those OF
the American continent, and he means TO have
IL understood that II an American citizen,
whether by birth or by adoption, goes anywhere
on 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
! IL the picture have drawn of the condition OF
the workngman 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 TO 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 il eager
| to have this country adopt. The Irishman was
British subject in IEeland, 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 IL casting an American vote.
Grover cleveland and Gov. Hendricks. And
what do You know of either OF them2 Do you
know anything OF Grover Cleveland fit to be
| publicly discussed, except that he has been all
| his lifetime q blind and obedient follower of a
| party always in the wrong? He is 30 years old.
| He voted for President in 1860. 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 1854 the question was put:to the American
people. Shall our army be called home in dis
grace; shall this war stop; shall the South go;
shall the nag be folded up and laid away; shall
,ne country PerLsnI aye, saiu Sro'er CIeVe-
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 voter, be in
scri6ed on the Constitution NO, said Groy-
| er Cleveland The question came in 1876,
Shall the debt be repudiated; shall the cur
renCy continue to be debased: shall the Amer
lean coin, with which the workmens wages, and
the soldiers pensions, and the savings banks
deposits are TO be paid, be debased cur
| rency?" Aye" said Grover Cleveland. And,
now. 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 continueY 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 IL he is elected he will do IL. 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
abolishing slavery; his votes recorded against
| every proposition to raise troops and he com
| mends himself to the civil service reformers by
the declaration that the first thing TO be done by
Democratic administration is to turn out
| $4,000 Republican Officeholders and put $4,000
Democrats in their stead.
Now, fellow citizens, 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
| l.ttA % lfsE1t
| history. they are in the platform adopted at
| Chicago, and James q. 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 10. Has there ever been candi-
| date since the Republican party organized
so well 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 for him? Did you know as
much about Hayes when you voted for him? L
| think the choice of the great Republican party
OF this country ought to count for something.
| They have not made 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 lerSon In
| civil life in America.
, Why they talk about their charges 1 sup
| pose you have heard country lawyers argue a
| case when they hadn't got much evidence on
| their side-and don't understand me as speak
ing contemptuo1sly of country lawyers, because
i am one OF that kind myself. Laughter But
figures and correspondence a shrewd and crafty
man can get up and, by shaking his head, and
sneering, and declaring that the thing you
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 should like TO have them
printed and put into the hands of every Repub-
lican voter in Massachusetts. All there IL OF
| them Is the charge that when MIR. Blaine re-
minded his correspondent OF a perfectly honest
and righteous ruling, he did IL not innocently
| and honestly, but for a corrupt purpose, and TO
imply that IL he could make trade with the
man he would do him such favor again. Now,
i think Mr.. Blaine il 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 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
a 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 20
show. THE applause which greeted this pre-
oflightning, followed instantly by tremendous
roar of thunder
The people OF the State OF Maine nave just
spoken. That is the one community on this
earth whici would not tolerate a knave II they
knew it, and from whose intelligence knave
could not hide himself If he tried. II stands, 1
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. IL Is an
unmixed Engish blood, and speak of that only
to show that they have been used to self govern
ment and 10 choose their rulers for two centu-
ries 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 IL would be improper for
me- under the rules of the Senate, to say
whether he was unanimously confirmed, and
say nothing about that anywhere; but L have a
right to say, under the rules of the Senate, that
a single objection would have compelled that
nomination TO go at least twenty-four
hours, and that he confirmed in two min
utes after his name went in. Don't you suppose
that these Democratic majors knew whether
Mr.. Blaine was an honest man or n knave?
And dou't you suppose they would have been
swift to condemn him II they bad entertained