The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-22
MEMORIAL MEETING IN NEW YORK ID SCHURZ
ATTENDANCE IS LARGE AND RULOGISTIC SENTIMENTS
 ARE EXPRESSED.

President Eliot, of Harvard, Pays Trib-
 ute to Memory of Late Prominent
 German-AmerIcan Citizen-Ex-Presi- l Cleveland Also Speaks in Honor of
 Departed Man-The Government One
 of the Party.
 New York, Nov. 21.-A memorial meeting in honor of Carl Schurz, the first public move to further the per- manent memorial as planned by rep resentative committee organized soon after the death of the distinguished Standardization citizen, was held at Carnegie hall tonight The attendance was large. and eulogisitc sentiments were expressed by a notable list of speakers.
 MT. Schurz died May IA last, and soon after the Carl schurz memorial com- mittee organized with the election of the following officers Chairman, Jo- seph H. Chate; first vice chairman, Gustav H. schwab; second vice chair man, George ,McAneny; treasurer, Isaac N. seligman; secretary, William R. Corwin To-nights meeting was plan ned at that time.
 In the audience tonight were repre- sentatives of many organizations with which Mr Schurz had been identified, and of others with whose objects he had been in sympathy Richard Wat son Glider read poem written for the occasion. Chairman Choate spoke briefly and was followed by former President Cleveland. MT. Cleveland paid a personal testimonial to Mr. Schurz as man.
 President Charles W. Eliot of Har- ward university than paid his tribute to MT. schurz' memory, in which he treat ed of him as an orator and a man of letters.
 Professor Eugene Kuhnemann of the University of Breslau, now featuring at Harvard university, spoke in Ger man, treating of MT schurz from the German point of view, aud of the sig lnifcance of his career as a bond be- tween the two peoples.
 ] Following him came Charles J. Bon aparte, secretary of the navy, who spoke at length on Mr. Schurz. I President Schumacher, of the Univer- sity of Bonn, who is now featuring at Columbia university, was another speaker, as was also Booker T, Wash ington, of Tuskegee institute. The lat ters talk was upon Mr. Schurzs active work in connection with the advance ment of the negro race MT. Schurz was designated by President Johnson as a special commission to make a study of the conditions in the south aft CT the war, particularly with reference to the negroes.
 After these speeches the chairman explained the plan of the committee for raising fund to provide permanent testimonial to Mr. schurz.
 Former President Cleveland was heartily applauded as he was introduce ed, and again when he said of MT. Schurz: "In recognition of the affirma- tion that ours is government by party, he did not disparage political organiza- tions or hold aloof from party aftilia- ton, Ills assumed party relationship as an arrangement for united effort in the accomplishment of purpose which his judgment approved, but he never con- ceded to party allegiance the guidance of political thought nor the dictatorship , of political conduct"
 In the course of his speech Secretary Bonaparte said Tt is no abuse of em- phatic language to say that the general acceptance of the 'spoils' theory of pol itics by American public opinion, in other words, our aequiescence in the doctrine that public offices are not posts of trust but mere means of private gain, is very truth; 'spoils and there fore that any sensible man is in politics only for what he can get out of them in the early days constituted great national disgrace and a great national danger That disgrace has been large ly redeemed and that danger has been in great part averted through a reso- lute and patient struggle, continued now for many years, amidst many dis appointments, apostasies and failures by small number of men who, in sea- son and out of season, have cried out against the shame and iniquity of such doctrines and such practices, until they have gained the peoples ears and awakened the peoples conscience. Tc speak of these men is to think of Carl