The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-18
CARL SCHURZ'S ESSAY
HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS AND AT
PREHENSiONS.
A Man Pre- Eminent for Temperauer
tai VaEaries Processes Grave Fee
that Roosevelt May Prove Defciep
in Diplomacy.

The venerable Carl Schurz must =
ways. command from good Republican,
the respect which members of that pres
national party always pay to those VIII
have done good service to the country, Is
pecially in the day of grave peril, and q
the field of war.
But although Republicans, in estima
ing the weight OF influence to be attache
to the utterauces of Mr.. Schurz. canno
forget nor underrate his services to tn
country in times of peace as we'll as
war, they can Only read his latest contr@
button to the literature of the presidc.
tial campaign with intense amusement.
Mr.. Schurz is at his best. that is, mos
amusing, in that passage of his lett,
where, With an evident effort IT, be faI
he deplores the Temperament" of Pre-.
dent Roosevelt. He says:
have such faith in the original roos
ness or his impulses that l deem him ear
oie OF abandoning again any of the wr.i
ways he has lately taken, except one. ~
1here something stands In the way I
which he is not responsible: his tempe
ment, which Is altogether too strong for
reason.
do not deem President Roosevelt eas
PIE OF seeking an opportunity for piunlt
the country into foreign war merely Il
crafty his ambition or to give play Ia
| lighting spirit. But l do think that whc
| ever there are two ways of deciding aa
| ter of controversy-one the slow, patient
| diplomatic, peaceable way, and the 9th
| the short cut by the use of force MI
| Roosevelt will be telnperamentally incltit
| to choose the short but. aud ii will requfrI
with him unconmonly strong effort Il
self restraint to resist that inclinatioil
| which effort, IL made at all, Is not Away
successful
This, coming from Carl Schurz, is I'D
| Gcious,
| The Schurz Temperament.
Among all the examples of .'tempersI
| ment" overriding good sense, reason AMI
calm Judgment known to American poll
| tics Carl Schurz stands pre-eminent Fo
| him to look upon the sturdy, practicd
| Roosevelt, who has taken up and carrie
| firmly every burden ever laid upon HIM
| for Carl Schurz to look upon this mar
and drone out his doubts as to his abi
| ity, iii case Of an important controversy
to seek the "slow. patient, diplomatic
| peaceable way" is enough to cause mirt
in Democratic campaign meeting i
| Iowa.
| Seventy-fve years ago and a half yea
| more this critic of the President of tn
United States was born in Prussia. II
| joined the insurrection OF 1919, was a
rested fled to Switzerland, and came
| these shores in 1852. He became an a
dent Republican, and when the war
| rebellion began he was the America
minister to Spain, so quickly had
arisen to power and influence in the Ian
of his adoption. One observes nothin
| SLOW" about these points of our critic
| career.
And there was nothing 'slow." e.tie
! when it came to action. He resigned a
| position, and came back To the Unite
| States to enter the Union army. lie ros
t. the rank of major general. and att
the war was sent by Missouri, as a X
publican, to the United States Senat
| There was nothing slow about tn;
phase of the rise of Mr.. Schurz, either.
1t was while he was in the Unite
States Senate that the fighting qualti
| of Mr.. SchurZ attracted national ate
ton. There was nothing .'slow, patien
diplomatic or peaceable" in the ways al
means adopted by him in attacking Il
leaders of his own party. He led I'll
movement against President Grant, pr
ceding his second nomination and ele
ton. Nothing could exceed the bite
ness with which he fought Grants az
ministration and strove to balk ever
thing it proposed. Grant was accuse
of ..militarism" and a desire to ups
all the traditions of the Republic.
was at this time that the mugwumI
began their dismal existence, with NJ
Schurz as their leader in the Senat
Oldsters among Republicans will reca
the scene at the hotel rooms whe
Schurz and his followers had gathers
to hear the returns when Grant defea
ed Horace Greeley. 1t was then TIL
the Temperament" OF Mr.. Schnrz got Il
better of him. He sat down to a niar
and pounded out the lugubrious notes
THE Heart Bowed Down" Theme
forth that gem Of opera should have be,
adopted as the mugwumps' campaif
song. But. strangely enough, 1t WASH
However, they haven't any song.
But to return to Mr.. Schurz. ii
Temperament" had the best of him un
President Grant was succeeded by Pre-
dent Hayes. when. from nowhere
particular, Mr.. Schurz was called, to
Secretary of the Interior. Probably
was good Republican during the TO
years OF holding Office. One can't "f'
around" and call hard names in an exec
tive Office, and now Mr.. Schurz had
taste or two of criticism himself. IL
replies to his tormentors were not d
! void of tartness and ginger"
A Political Chameleon.
When he left the cabinet Mr.. Schu
fell. like Lncifer, star of the mornin
and came down to being the editor of
New York paper-daily, it is said, know
to the public as the New York Evenil
Post. From that moment the brilliaI
cratic, revolutionary and cantankero
Carl Schurz remained, so far as 4
public can judge. a Mugwump. In IS
) he retired from the newspaper field: b
: his recent letter shows that he is a mu
wump still. There's more to him tn,
there is to most mugwumps, too, but b
talk about the dangers of Roosevelt
solid Dutch-American Temperament
affords ground for inextinguishat