Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-03-11
DIANE AND soHUns
And the Portraits They Paint Of
Each Other

80
Each Other
n. Y.sTimes.
In the second volume Of his Twenty
Yeers in Congress MIR. James G.. Blaine
gives his personal estimate OF the charac-
ter and career OF Mr.. Carl Schurz. This
opinion of one distinguished public man
given by another distinguished man is
not without interest to the American
people. The passage in Mr.. Blaine's
book in which Mr. Schurx is spoken of is
as follows;
He has not become rooted and grounded
-anywhere; has never established home;is
moi identified with any community; is not
interviewer with heinterests Of any locality
or any class has no fixed relation to church
or slllte 10 professional, political, or social
iife has acquired none OF that companion
rhip and confidence which unite old neigh
bo,4 Ia the closest ties, and give to friend
shin It's fnlleat development, its most gra-
cons attributes. TIL same unsteadiness
has entered Us u striking feature into the
ri;bIie career OF Mr.. SenuTZ, He boasts
hi.nscli incapable OF attachment to party,
and Ia that respect radically differs from
lii, greaE body of his American fellow
citiz,ns Ha cannot even comprehend that
axAItcd sentiment of honorable aspiration
In public life which holds together success
sive generations OF men = sentiment
which. in the United states, causes the
, Democrat to reverence the memory OF Jef-
ferson and jackson and Douglas, which
causes his opponent to glory in the achieve
ments OF Hamilton and. Clay and Lincoln
sentiment which in England has bound
the Wings in common faith and common
glory from Walpole to Gladstone.
This passage has been quoted with de-
lighted approval by many of the news
papers which have, never ceased to de-
plore Mr.. Biaine's failure in the cam
paipn of 1884. II is meat and drink to
them to see leading Mugwump thus
held up to scorn by the pen of the states
man that they so much admire. 1t has been
quoted or referred to, also, in many indie
pendent and Democratic newspapers,
some of which make the most of the abun-
dant opportunities which Mr.. Blaine's
criticisms of Mr.. Schurz give them tc
reply with counter-critcisms rather mort
severe and searching. But it seems to III
that the fairest and most appropriate
way to treat Mr.. Blaine's remarks abou
Mr.. Schurz is to print some of Mr.
Schurzs remarks about Mr.. Blaine. A
very careful and exhaustive review of Nj
Blaine's character and public services
was once made by Mr.. Schurz, and we arr
fortunate enough to have copy befor
/. us. II is the address Mr.. Schurz de
liyered in Brooklyn, August 9th, 1854. |
was the greatest speech, in fact the onl,
noteworthy speech, made on either sid
in that most exciting political contest
Here is what Mr.. Schurz said about Mr.
Blaine
Here we find not mere solitary slip G
the conscience, not a mere occasional yield
ing to the seduction OF opportunity to elk
out a scanty existence. Here we find tn
speaker of the House of Representatives /
a business-like way participating, an
urgently asking for greater share in
large enterprise, the pecuniary success {
which in grsnt measure depends on til
action of the same House over which h
presides, and in which he Yields greg
power-for the purpose OF getting riei
I'VE find him pointing to the exercise of h
official power us q channel in which
already has made himself useful, and COZ
sequently can make himself more useful,
order to obtain more of valuable intere
in such an enterprise, thus literally tradiu
upon his official trust and opportunitie
To cover up these things we find him I
sorting to all sorts of bare-faeod untruth
receptions and coneealments on the mo
solemn occasions. The concea'ments 7
sorteAto and the side perspeetlves open'
by tE~enfficial investigation strongly su
only one of several. We find that he d
get rich while in office without any 9th
regular business. This is the character
the case.
Proceeding from the history of NJ
Blaine's railroad speculations to co
sideration of some of the probable ]
suits of his election to the Presidenc
Mr.. Schurz called the attention of
business men whom he was addressing
the moral dangers of electing to Il
great office man who had been ION
make when he was speaker Of the Hou
''Do You think asked he, that
sanction and encouragement, aye,
gloriGcation which being on the MAJ
would receive would not be noticed
your cashiers and your bookleepers a
your statesmen aud your clerks n
The public can now see precisely WI
each of these two public men thinks
the other, and they can make up til
minds as to which is the worse, mot
become rooted and grounded anywhel
or to be ION the Make in the speak
chair of the House of Representative,