The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-09-16
A ScOrcher.
Senator GalliDger to Carl Schurz. Calls Him q
IurncOat In Politics.

IurncOat In Politics.
CONCORD, n. H, Sept. s. Senator j.
H. Gallinger of New Hampshire has made
public an open letter in reply to COM
munication from Carl Schurz, recently
published, in which Mr.. Schurz took is
sue with Mr.. Gallinger on statements
made by the latter bearing on civil service
reform. Following are the leading points
Hon. CARL SCHURz:
Dear Sir-I have read your open letter
addressed to me, in which you announce,
with your usual swagger and bravado,
that if l desire to continue this converse
ton 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 opinions since first you landed in
this country, nor because l feel that | am
an adept in your methods Of warfare,
that | take notice of your i'll, hammered
and inconsequential letter. 1t were prob
ably better to suffer you to lapse again
into that political obscurity where your
dlsloyalty to Republican principles pre-
clpltated you than to crafty your yearn-
ing desire for notoriety by keeping you
longer in public view, into whose presence
you have seized this opportunity Of Oh
truding yourself. But when you pose as
the moral mentor Of the Republican
party, party whose cause you have re-
peatedly betrayed, and the leading plank
OF whose platform you openly repudiate
| IN the advice you are so anxious to give
its followers, l may be pardoned if | re-
call to that generation who have come to
years OF understanding since you left the
! STAGE Ut 11nlitip11 action whn tliS ri
Sehurz is who so tiippantly assumes to in
terpret Republican principles to those
who, when he was coquetting with the
enemy, were steadfast in support of its
candidates and platform.
MI. Gallin9er goes on to quote from the
late James G. Blaine and others to sub
stantlate his Characterization of MI.
| Schurz as lone who is always at home to
controversy, and whose frequent migra-
| ions in party and residential associations
have marked him as the Wandering jew
OF American politics. He then continues
the attack as follows:
Among other things they say that you
have never favored high tariff protection,
and that you regard that policy as, in
the long run, economically as well as
morally ENTHUSIASTICALLY still more than
economically Pray, when did you make
the discovery that high tariff was morally
| injurious? You accepted an election to
the United States Senate by the Republi-
can Party in 1865 which place you held
for six years. The Republican Party was
then, as now, party of high tariff.
Where We're Your moral objections
then? High tariff seems to have been good
enough for you when in office, but to be
immoral when you are in private life.
4 IS hoyo i,,1 "a, !; ~,
You in calling in question any mans party
loyalty? You who, in turn, have scorned
about all the political principles and
pledges made by the parties to which you
have been temporarily attached You, to
whom this glorious country of ours looks
morally small?'' What have you ever
had TO do with party organizations, ex-
| cept TO betray them? From the time when
| you were chief conspiratOr in the Greeley
movement Of 1872 to wreck the Republi-
can Party and destroy Gen. Grant, when
| have you ever rendered it. OF any other
party, disnterested service?
And now, my dear sir in closing permit
me to say that | cannot reciprocate fully
the invitation contained in the last para
| gaph of your letter, as ordinarily | should
/ choose Il correspondent less abusive and
more candid than you. The Republican
! party cares nothing for your views on the
/ tariff, pensions, the freedom of Cuba, the
| development of the American merchant
marine, the Monroe doctrine, honest civil
/ service reform, and other planls of its
platform. You are at war with most of
| them. even if YOU do not consider them
''immoral - But if there remains any
lingering doubt in your mind that you are
what | designate you a traitor to the Re
! | l,,,. |,