The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-27

mHs Cdfi CClurZ mas puDliSueu Acttct
in which he sings the song of calamity
and corruption" and closes by supporting
Cleveland, who cannot be elected save by
the employment of the machinery OF
Tammany Hall in every great city in the
land by the Democracy. Mr.. Schurz
urges his countrymen to vote for Cieve-
land, whom Mr.. Schurz vigorously assailed
in q public speech in October 1887,
when President Cleveland used his official
influence to secure the success Of the
Tammany Hall ticket, including the
notorious District Attorney Fellows. Mr..
Schurz then joined with ex-Mayor Hewitt
and the New York Euening Post and
New York Times in an effort to defeat
Tammany Hall, and in his letter of Octo-
Der, 1887, denounced President Cleveland
influence to assure the triumph of the
most corrupt municipal government in the
world. And yet today Mr.. Schurz desires
to re-elect Mr.. Cleveland president, whom
he regarded as traitor to the cause of
good government in 1887.
Nobody who has watched Mr.. Schurz's
career will be surprised at his last per-
Torrance. He has been everything in
politics and business. and nothing long.
He has been a lawyer, an editor. foreign
minister. a soldier, U nited States sem
ator, q cabinet minister and an agent for
an ocean steamship line, and has failed Of
the success that his brilliant talents and
fine intellectual training ought to have
easily secured. No man in America
writes better English than Carl Schurz;
no man is a more artful and dangerous
adversary in public debate; he
is a mastery advocats of his cause when
on the stump; subtle, sophistical, ironical,
sarcastic; he wields all the weapons of .
man gifted with . mind of extraordinary
critical power. And yet Mr.. Schurz,
while he always makes his intellectually
felt, nevertheless has ceased to be .
man of large influence among the Ger.
mans Of America. This is because Mr..
Schurx seems to be . man temperament
ally prone to make the same blunder that
Victor Hugo attributed to King Louis
Philippe, of France; that Of constantly
"mistaking a weathercock for q flag."
Mr.. Schurz has a restless, capricious,
critical nature, and he displayed
this temperamental defect early in his
career. President Lincoln made Schurz
minister to Spain. When the war broke
out he came home, wanted to be soldier,
and SO Lincoln made him q brigadier gen.
eral in April, 1862. and MAJOR general in
March. 1863. Schurz was very common
place soldier, as men of literary fac.
ulty, highly developed, are apt to be;
a fault-fnding man is sure to make poor
subordinate and poor executive. At 20
Schurz, in his youthful egotism, thought
he was competent to give Germany a new
constitution, and SO at 80 he considered
Lincoln failure and sought to give him
advice and to instruct him. He wrote
Lincoln letter directly after the autumn
election in 1862, and got an answer
straightaway. Said Lincoln:
have just received and read your letter OF tie
18th tSovember). The purport of it is that We
lost the late elections, and tho administration is
falling because the war is unsuccessful. and
that must not fatter myself that / am NOS
justly TO blame for it / certainly know that If
the war falls the administration fails, and that
will be blamed for II whether / deserve it or
not. And / ought to be blamed II could do
better. You think could do better; therefore
you blame me already. ] think l could not do
better; therefore ! blame you for blaming
me- l understand You now to be willing
TO accept the help Of men who are not Re-
publicans provided they have "heart in it,
4 9TH Rs,k r..
judge of hearts. or Of the "heart IN it?' If I
must discard my own judgment aud take yours,
l also must take that OF others, and by the time
should reject all should be advised to reject
should have mono left, Republicans or Others
not even yourself. To be assured, my dear sir,
there are men " bo have heart In IL that thin
you are performing your part as poorly Is you
think am performing mine.
Schurz was utterly incompetent as q
soldier: this was the judgment of Hooker,
Howard. Meade. Grant and Sherman: he
had intellect, but ii was the intellect of an
intensely critical, fault-lnding man
rather than the practical executive brain
brains as a soldier, not 10 his work in hand
but TO finding fault with his superior off.
GERS and framing POLICIES for Lincoln. lie
stayed with the Republican party until "A
United States senator from Missouri he
Joined Sumner and Trumbull in opposing
President Grants San Domingo scheme.
SO that in 1872 Schurz dbl Ito. act with the
party. When Hayes was nominated
Schurz was a. first cold, bu, on the promise
o. cabinet place spoke TOR the ticket. His
administration of the Indian bureau was
utterly inefficient and inhuman. HIS
INSTRUMENTATION forced Indian wars
that never ought To have taken place; he
treated the Indians with bad faith ana
refused 10 respect the terms of surrender
granted Chief Joseph ana the Neg perccs.
Ia 1854 SEIZURE took the stump for Cleve-
land and rendered great service 10 the
Democracy. Then in lSS. he seemed 20
get disguised, and denounced Clevelan, j
and Tanmauy Hall. Now ne appears 10
| have been seen and satisfied" for he IS
again Tor Cleveland. NJ. Schu-z has tina
reputation Of charging $50 for every cam.
raisn speech he delivers, SO tina, he is An
expensive orator for any party 10 carry
| long. His highsiness, his reputation f,r
| rnercenary conduct. has lost him the con.
| fidenoe OF thousands of Germans Nj,
! once implicitly trusted him.