The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-20
soHuRz SUPPORTS CLEVELAND.
He Cannot Vote for Blaine Undef
Ia Thin piss Mise OF Harrison.

Ex.Secretary Carl Schurz, nov in
Enrope, in a letter published in the
New York Evening Post, calmly re-
v;ews the merits and shortcomings of
the present administration and then
declares, under all circumstances, that
he considers it his duty to vote for Mr..
If able to reach here in time
for the election.
The letter was called forth by q
communication from q friend OF his,
dated in Washington, July l, 1888, in
which was the following.-"No man
can do more to promote the success of
the republican ticket than you. NAV
promise your speedy return ana earheS'
co-operationf'
Mr.. Schurz's reply is dated Forsteck,
Kiel. Septsmber is, 1883, and in it he
makes the following strong polnts:-
concerning administrative reform,
we have seen enough of political life to
know that, az to their devotion 10 inc
spoils system, there ia 10 difference
bclween the working politicians Ill the
republican and those in he democratic
party.
RIAINE REALLY II CANDIDATE.
"Is it reasonable to expect that MIR.
Harrison, if elected, would oppose
such u 'clean sweep with greater
courage and firmness than was shown
by Mr.. Cleveland2 Mr.. Harrison is,in
point of personal character, no DOUBT,
vastly preferable to Mr.. Blaine. But
neither his profession nor his antece-
dents stamps him as a man who would
resist the demands OF the influential
politicians of his party. The cause or
| civil service reform would. therefore,
have to hope rather less from MIR.
Harrison thar ron Mr.. Cleveland.
"But, il l rightly understand the
attitude of the republican party, it Is
really Mr.. Blaine, not Mr.. Harrison,
whom we are invited TO put into
mower. Mr.. Blame is v~ociferously
proclaimed, not only as the greatest
statesman as the real leader of the
republican party but also as the
premier the head OF the republican
administration that is to be. What
Mr. Harrison 8 administration shall be
under Mr.. Blaine's control seems to be
taken for granted, without any con-
]spicuous dissent. Mr.. Harrison is 80
pointedIy consigned to the role OF
second man that his position as q can
didate appears grotesque i'll the extreme.
II is an entirely new thing In our con-
stitutional history that N person is to
be elected president OF the United
States for the very purpose OF permit
ting the presidential power 10 De
welded by another. Those VINO acted
with us in 1884 upon sincere motives
eau hardly deem it safe or credltaole 10
the American people now to invest
with the power of head OF the admin
istration' the same man whom they
~repudiated four years ago, anu whom
this year the prudent men OF his party
would nave feared to nominate under
his own name.
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY.
, 81 am not frightened by the repnbli.
can campaign cry that, il Mr.. Cleveland
be e elected, the industries OF the
country will surely be ruined and
general distress follow. The tariff
policy of the republican party in 1884
!, was professedly moi what it is now. Ii
, freely admitted that the tariff, intended
to meet the financial needs of the wal
, periods, was tull of unjust and often
siye features, and that 1t must be revised
[ and reduced in its rates. One repub-
lican platform after another joined IL
l this admission.
.sBut now, when the democrati
attempt to do in a very moderate way
= what the republicans had for years
t been promising 10 do, we are odd that
D unless this attempt be stopped, tIt
/ country will go to ruin. The very mel
I who constantly declaim about th'
: magnificent past OF the re
N -.,kIt,a.. fupIu DIVl liz III
understand that if the policy OF tarii
reduction advocated during lhA
f magnificent past by republican plat
forms and statesmen had been carried
ont, distress and misery would hav
@ been the LOT of the American people.
J, RECKLESS MONOPOLY AT THEIR HEAL
-..It was the cnstom of the %repnblica
VI party 10 pledge itself i'll its platform
IL that the government should be admin
u istered with strict economy. III
10 pla, form of this year omits this pledge
u and recommends the liberal spendIn
u of the public money tor a variety {
~ subjects. What this e is easll
~ understood.
.sWhen l thus see the republics
party sacrifice the professions an
70 pledges Of its better days
IS am forced to the conclusion that Il
u republican party has fallen completes
y under the control of selfish, grasplr
10 interests, i'm hich the spirit OF mono
u, oily is running mad.
~ GLOW in the world can anybot
have the face to say that the Mills 81
0, would destroy the protective syste
81 and thereby the industries of the coui
:. try?
" Equally astonishing is the srgume
ut that, if the danger ia not in the MI
d bill itself, it is III the spirit animatil
=. ii, in the principles embodied in Pre-
OF dent C~leyelaud's tariff message. Wn
VI are those principles? That the nec'
saries of life used and consumed by
the people, the duty on which adds
US the cost Of living in every home, h o
be greatly %cheapened;' and that t
is' duties on raw material used in man
III f~actures' should be radically reduce
re- or abolished. Against the second pt
IT'D of this proposition the republican pal
makes its open war. According
BIZ them, the free importation OF r.
we material is TO destroy the protect
system and with it on Industries.
en more self evidently tailacious ASSERT
nu has ever been advanced.
AMERICAS CONTRACTED MARKET
zen alt is in a great measure owing
md the artificial enhancement of the pr
eat OF the raw material that The products
American manufacturers have not bt
of more successful in competing
, Il those of other nations in the markets
i've the world. 1 know from persoI
observation that European manuf
.by turers who understand their busis
look forward with grave a%pprehens
to the time when American indus
will be relieved of the clogs which IL
hamper it and enter them markets OF
Thy World 10 Sompe'e win nnat;,;on
,,ies American ingenuity and ener
.ike antrammellsd by artificial shack