Arizona republican., 1897-11-25
MISTAKEN CONCLUSIONS.

The Hon. Carl Schurz Is bright man and an entertai hing writer, and just now he is furnishing letter on politics for every issue of Hampers Weekly. He Is mugwump and a Citizens Union man without shad ow of question. Being such he has no use for the republican party, and he seeks to discredit the republicans, high and low, whenevr he can. In his last letter he complains that the republicans in congress made a mis- take by passing the tariff act last summer and by failing to take up the question of the currency. Then he points to the recent elections as proof of the mistake made by the republicans in believing that the vote for Mckinley last year meant re- publican vote. He holds that the re- pub1icans imagined that the sound money democrats who voted for the republican candidates thereby became republicans for all time, etc.
 But MT. Schurz is altogether too in- genuous. The main plank of the St. Louis platform, as it had been the main plank of republican platforms for thirty years or more, was the en- dorsemenf of the policy of protection. Last year, however, the question Of free silver was raised, and prior to the national conventions the demo- cratic newspapers kept insisting that the democratic party was in favor of the gold standard, and that the republicans would either ''hedge" on coinage of silver. But just the re- verse, as any one familiar with the history of the two parties could have guessed, came to pass. As a result thousands of democrats cut loose from the Chicago aggregation and were loyal to the best interests of the coun- try. The republicans were right on the money question and furnished the only candidates who were acceptable to those who did not believe in free silver and free riot.
 The republicans have always given the loyal democrats who voted for Mckinley due credit for their action, but the republicans never imagined that tf.lse democrats who voted against free silver and the free silver candidates had become full-fedged republicans. Neither did the republi- cans-and right there Is where MT. Schurz and others make an awful mis- take-consider that they should go out of politics and permit the mug wumps and the sound money demo- crats to manage republican politics, with the republicans as simple fol- lowers.
 The attempt was recently made to disband and disrupt the republican panty in New York city, but it failed If MT. Low had been in earnest for the defeat of Tammany Halls candi- dase he would have withdrawn from the field and asked that General Tracy do the same thing, a new man to be chosen by the republicans and the Citizens' Union as the joint anti TammanN candidate for mayor. But MT. Low insisted upon being a can didate, and his friends devoted more of their energies to getting republi- can votes than they did to defeating Van Wyck.
 AS to what MT. Schurz says about the failure of congress last summer to take up the currency question, that is begging the issue. He says the re- publicans, although they knew they could do nothing, should have broach- ed the subject, letting the 1esponsi- bility for defeat of currency meas ure fall upon the silver men. He holds that the country would hava been charitable and would not have held the republicans responsible for failure. MT. Schurz knows be ter than that. He would have been ore of the first men to point out that the republicans knew they could not sue ceed and had simply made the effor for currency reform" in order to de- ceive the public. It would have been folly for the republicans to have talk en up the currency question last sum- mer. The democrats and silver re- publicans are dead against the pres ent standard and no help could have been expected from them.
 Unfortunately the republican sou d money senators are in a minority, and there are not enough democrats in the senate to assist them in any currency legislation AS a matter of fact the currency question was pretty effectually settled by the people last November. The gold standard is as sured until 1901, and it remains for the democrats who profess to believe i in sound money to make the gold 1 standard assured after that date The republican party is almost solid for l I-11