The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-01
HENRY SCHAD.
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sheriff is Henry Schad. OF his thousands
! of friends in this city and county few
know that ne has a record as a patriot
that is brilliant enough to weave into TO-
| nance. They do not know it because
| Henry Schand is not a man who lives in
| the glory of his own boastfuiness. He is
| not braggart or al excessive talker. But
| his deeds and his life IN this city speak his
praises as man, a citizen and an official
more eloquentIy than any written or
| spoken word. There are thousands of
| farmers with whom Henry Schad has had
| dealings in Sedgwick county-farmers
| who have bought goods on time and they
know better than anyone can tell them
| that there has never been a time when
Henry Schad dunned or pressed them.
When crops have been short and misfor-
tunes thick ne has always stood sready
ana willing TO advance them such goods
as he had and to wait their time for pay
ment. The business men Of the city have
worked beside him for years. They know
that none has been more public-spirited,
more faithful to Wichita, more Jealous 10
the city's welfare. more untiring in every
work that would upbuild and foster it
than Henry Schad. No solicitor for Wich
ita's advancement, no promoter of Wichi-
ita's advantage has ever called on Henry
Schad and been turned away. As an of
fetal every man and woman in this town
knows what he will do In the city coun-
Gilman he stood up and fought to the teeth
g., Oh,
scheme to foist a pavement on the tax
payers which the tax payers said they
did not want. Advised and cajoled and
threatened, he did not swerve from the
honest course for an instant, but know
ing what was right and what was honest
and what the people asked. he stood and
battled in their interest.
That is the character Of Henry Schad
through and through. Every bone and
sinew, every fiber in the man is honest.
No temptation or connivance or palliating
excuse or political exigency or personal
necessity could turn him from his path of
duty, could halt him in the direct and mar
row road Of official honesty. With Henry
Schad sheriff of this county there will be
no scandals about Incorporated fees.
no charges Of personal debauchery, no in
vestigation into crooked books, no conni-
vance with law-breakers to rob the treas
ury and circumvent the law. If he is
elected that office will be run honestly.
The income Of that office will be r;gidly
protected and accounted for and the out
lay circumscribed as rigidly by honest
economy. No man who knows Henry
Il have -I,r
call him friend can dispute this for an
instant that it is not the case. Even the
opposition must and has recognized in
Henry Schad the soul of honesty and the
capability Of filling the office Of sheriff
ably.
Some men are born true-as true as the
bluest steel. Henry Schad is one Of these,
and no one can listen to his Ife's story
and doubt il.
Having been born and reared in the
southern city of Richmond, Va. it was
something for a boy of fifteen, after hav-
ing heard the news that Fort Sumpter
was taken and having seen the local COM.
pany at Richmond pull down the stars
and stripes from the state house-it was
something for q boy of fifteen, smooth
faced, spindle ankled and narrow-chested.
to go to his good old German mother and
ask her to pack his things into KNAPP
sack that he might go out and fight for
his country. 1t was something for this
boy to take a kiss from his widowed moth
er and go out alone through the hostile
hordes of enemies who had been his nei-
ghboss. 1t was something for him to press
UT l-y,a oil vx-.f
mans hand against him, sleeping IN the
woods in the day time and trudging for
ward in the emptiness of night. 1t was
something to reach at last the Union lines.
to be grabbed by a picket who took him
for n spy and would have no explanation.
10 be sent from Williamsburg 10 York
ton and finally dispatched by the orders
of the Provost marshal to Fortress Mon
roe and thrown in the guard house as a
Suspect" among the drunken and de-
bauched. wretches there. 1t was something
to lie there four days hopefully confident
that the Union officers would find out
their mistake. that they would see that
he was not a spy, but boy who wanted
only TO fight for the stars and stripes.
A boy who could do that, who was so
fervently, periodically imbued at the
dawn of a great, dubious conflict that he
must fight; who would press onward in
the face Of the enemy to his unknown
friends; 10 be mistaken by them and cast
into prison. such a boy does not grow into
a man OF small motives, small honor and
small mind. And when Henry Schad
was released and his motives recognized
rightly by the officers. and when he join
ed company f First New Jersey cavalry,
in a regiment that has a record of ninty-
seven engagements. when ne participated /
in all the battles of the Army of the Poto- /
mac, still he never fought a more bril- |
liant fight, never gained a more signal |
victory, than when, at the outcome OF the |
war, a mere boy, he forsook his birth |
place and his friends and his home 20 /
gain the lines OF the Union army and !
gave his feeble help 10 his country. OF !
such a deed Homer would have written a |
poem, and Praxtileses carved a statue. I
Here was a true patriot whose very blood /
tingled with the love OF his country. Find 1
a true patrio; in time OF war and you I
have found an honest official IN time OF |
peace. May any thinking man question |
II?
Is II little wonder that Henry Schsd has
been popular with the Grand Army OF the +
Republic. Is It little wonder that the Gar
field post proSpered so when he was com
nander in 1884? Is Il little wonder that be
stood I'D for honesty in the city cou2cii2 j
Il IS little wonder that re is granted the I
respect OF all mem
Henry Schad was born in Richmond Va /
March, =, Isis, OF German parents. He
was educated IN the public schools there