Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-01

] PuyH NO attention 70 what other people arc
doing or saying.
! Who Is he?
Carl schurz, soldier OF fortune.
He is the one man In American politics
who is almost always indoAnablo in degree.
schurz for more than a score Of years has
kept political prophets and wiseaores guess-
ing as to just whore he would turn up next,
and in what special camp.
schurz is figure in our politics who IN
some respects has no counterpart. Few men
Of national reputation won fame in the iace
OF more obstacles aud difficulties. An exile,
prosecuted patriot OF the struggle Of the
German and Austrian peasantry in 1913, for
\ some degree Of freedom and some share in
/ tho government Of their countries, Schur1
| has in this country won prominence that
he might mover attain IN his native land, for
he has won as high political honors as any
foreign born citizen may He has been a
Senator OF the United States and a Cabinet
officer. In addition he has won national
reputation as an orator, as a scholar and as a
writor.
Taking all the facts and conditions into con
sderaton It must be said that man OF this
sort must be gifted with considerable more
than ordinary qualities, mental and moral.
Not yet sixty.fye years Of age, he was born
In March, 1899, noar Cologne in Prussia His
life since he left the university at Bonn, In
which he was student, to plunge into the
revolution Of 1913 against King William along
with Rudlich and Kinkel, who afterwards
settled in New YORK and Franz slgcl, who
won hls generals commission In our own
civil war. No carpet knight was young
schurz. When his friend Kinkel was capturot
and sentenced TO Imprisonment for life IN
fortress In tho river HGyel. Young schuiz
communicated with his friend and between
the two a plan was concocted by means Of
which Klnkel escaped one dark night from
the fortress through a sewer, and by the aid
Of Schufz, and by means Of long marches by
night, the two reached the North Sea and
shipped to England
From this time his career was ehockorod
for a considerable period and varied always.
In Paris he was a correspondent for German
papers. In England, ike other exilea. he
gave lessons In his own language with some
success. The year 1852 found him in the
United States, and so good use did he make
Of his time that m 1857 he was Republican
candidate for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of wiscon-
sin. In tho meantime he had learned
English and earned a reputation as an orator.
so that when in 1859 no made a lecture tour
through New England. in which he denounced
the policy OF stephen A. Douglass, he became
in a certain sense national character He
was an Influential member Of the Republican
National Convention IN 1860. President Lin
coin made him Minister to Spain, but he
resigned to enter the army az the opening Of
the rebellion. In 1862 he was commissioned
n brigadier-genera of volunteers, and WA
assigned to command dlvlsion in tho corps
Of his friend, General FRANK slgel. He fought
with sigel In second Bull Run, wns made
major-general IN 1868 and commanded
division at Charlottesville, and he was at
Gettysburg, at Chattanooga and elsewhere.
At the close Of the war he started 10 pnc-
tee law and then became Washington cores