El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
ByD, OF.

Special Correspondence Of the herald.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-Town Ii
quiet now except for the dull thud al
the Hopper flops and rolls over on the
other side, and the sudden rush Of at
mosphere as he explains just why he
is more pious than his party, to an an
| notstive chorus from the rest of us.
Speaking from my own personal know
ledge can testify that all the fellows
who have lined up with the bryanc
G acy are political orphans" and light
weights generally, while all the repub.
lican recruits represent the cream OF
the ex-democratic party. Somehow
though with that singular inability to
apr eciste good hardwood truth which
Is as Irritating IS characteristic, the
brysnocrats meet do not seem to a.
cspt my vie vs. with the alscrIty which
might be expected. The repr bllcans do,
however, and it does them credit.
CARL TIE PECULIAR
Carl Scbuz Is one OF the late con
verted who has attracted the most
attention here: not so much because of
his change of hea-t-that being q
regular quadrennisl-bus because Of
his little argument with secretary Gage
about the imminence of the danger of
free silver and bis naive appeal to the
republicans to tie up his lie ader, Bryan.
by new legislation on the subj isct. The
honors seem to be With Gage aud
Schurz has retired into his hole and
pulled it in after him. Gage is Chi
cago banker-one of the fellows
Altgeld wants to hsn4-and though he
IL n pt much OF q politician, he is pretty
adequate on finaucisl matters aud out
classes the errstic Carl.
Az PROFESSIONAL GERMAN
Schurz was one Of the Germans who
came over Is g result OF the AS
troubles very good people most of them
we're, too. he sat right down to learn
English and he harmed it: learned it
thoroughly. Toey say there are only
three people in the world who can speak
two languages perfectly and Schurz is
oneof them tI'vs forgotten the oau es of
the other mem. His English is perfect.
ing the German vote-as we have been
doing more or less, ever since-and
Schurz became a professional Ger
man.
Iu 1861 he came aronnd bothering
Liucola-shen At his wits end for sup
Dore-fnr a olsce and Tinrnlp prouo ieo6
him one. Blu: what does Mr.. Schurz
ask for but the post of minister to Prus-
sis. Considering the fact that he had
been q revoiusionist in Germany and,
there vas reward out for him, the
request was not modest. He was "per-
soma non grsts" to the last degree in
Berlin and the appointment WAS utter
ly impossible, but he was given Madrid
Instead.
10 connection with the came policy
we bad given q number of prominent
Teutons poets in she army and one of
these was Gen. Sigel, another profess
sional German. Sigel WAS not Q gilt
: .ring success, although he was q fair
Q ,ldier, and Schurz was recalled aud
made a brigadier general, to exc him
out. After the war he Was . senator
from Missouri (ls69) and later left the
repub blicsn party TO support Greeley
against Grant (s72l.
ALWAYS BETTER THAN HIS PARTY
In 1876 he was back again supporting
Hsyes, who made him secretary OF the
interior. Ia 1884 he was lined up with
the Cleveland people against Blaine
and now he has gone into populism.
he is wonderfully bright and able
man, but he suffers from an incurab
that the American people
need education and that he is divinely
appointed to teach them the errors of
their Ways. AS somebody said of him
once she Is always batter than his
party" wherefore going into bryan
ocracy may be good thing for him
because 1t gives him SO much more
GROWERS BRAINS.
Olney ia another of the Cleveland de.
mocrats; and is popularity believed to
have been the brains OF Growers Sc
cond administration-whi is very
likely so. BE Is clever man, but he Is
one of the old stiff necked Boston
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