The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-10
CARL SCHURZ FLAYED
NOTED MUGWUMP EXCORIATED BY
SENATOR GALLINGER.
Reply to a Recent Open Letter-Mr.
Schurz Accused of Treachery
and Inconsistency.

CONCORD, N. H., Sept. 9.-Senator Gall
linger has made public a reply to the open
letter which Carl Schurtz addressed to him
on Aug. o. The senator begins his open
letter to Mr.. Schurz as follows:
Dear Sir--I have read your open letter
addressed 10 me, in which you announce,
with your usual swagger and bravado. that
if l desire to continue this conversation
you will be at my service 1t is not for the
purpose of gratifying your egotiSm, made
boundless by the versatility with which you
have espoused all shades of political opin-
ions since you first landed in this
warfare, that l take notice of your ILL
It WERE probably betteT 70 suffer vou to-
lapse again 1nto that political obScurity
where your disloyalty to Republican prin-
ciples precipitated you than TO crafty your
yearning a. sire for notOriety by keeping
you longer in pubic view. into whose pres
ence you have seized this opportunity of
But when you pose as the moral mem
tor of the Republican ~rty-a party whose
cause you have repeatedly betrayed and
the leading plank of whose platform you
openly repudlate in the advice you are so
anxious to give its followers may be par
doned if / recall TO that generation who
have come to years of understanding since
you left the stage of political action who
this Carl Schurz is who so iippantly as
sumes to interpret Republican principles to
those who when he was coquetting with
the enemy, were steadfast in support of it's
candidates and platform.
The senator then quotes Blaine's 'Twen-
ty Years in Congress in proof of the fact
that ''unsteadness has entered as a strik-
ing feature in the public career of Mr..
Schurz.'
Mr.. Gallinger then continues: 1T would
seem unnecessary, after this candid and
truthful portrayal of your political career,
to add anything, but in your letter. which
is largely devoted to an apology for your
recent support of the Republican party. the
high tariiI doctrine of which you declare
to be immortal, you say: If there were
political party standing for all the objects
of high Importance l have mentioned |
should stand faithfully by that party so
long as it faithfully served those public
ends but, in the absence of such a national
organization, / and others of the same way
of thinking must do the best we can to
serve the public ends we have in view
Your memory appears to be as short as
your logic is defective. There was just
such national party in the last campaign.
and its ticket was headed by the names OF
Palmer and Bucknsr. Its platform contains
ed all those high objects you have mem
toned, notably 'ow tariff and currency re-
form. 1t was foreordained to defeat, how
ever. 1t promised neither immediate nor
prospective reward. 1t could reither hold
out future recognition for services be-
slowed, nor was it likely to be in a posi-
ton after. election where gratuitous adj
vice would be acceptable 10 its followers.
Yet it stood, as read your letter, for 'that
which, after all, gives to a party its true
value--its principles AMI pledges and good
faith
Yet with the golden opportunity for mar
pect of pelf or power-a martyrdom so long
cherished in your theoretical imaginings.
yet never exemplified in your conduct-you
brushed it aside and begrudgingly supported
a party as a free gift, the leading plank
of whose platform you boast to have al
ways regarded as immoral'-a plank advo-
Gated and emphasized all through the cam
paign by it's candidate for President, in
spite of the protests of yourself, and. to
use your own words. the very large and
constantly increasing number of citizens
who form your somewhat mythical back
ground"
The senator says, in closing: II cannot
reciprocate fully the invitation contained
in the last paragraph of your letter, as or
dinarily / should choose a correspondent
less abusive and more candid than you.
The Republican party cares nothing for
your views on the tariff, pensions the free
dom Of CUBA, the development of the
American merchant marine, the Monroe
doctrine honest civil-seryice reform and
other planks of its platform. You are at
war with most of them, even If you do not
consider them immoral But if there re-
mains any lingering doubt in your mind
that you are what / designate you, traitor
to the Republican party. | may be at home
to your future inquiries.
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