The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-20
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THE LESSON OF HISTORY.
A Prominent kcokuk Republican Re
minds Iowa Senators of Fate
CT Sumner and schurz.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
have just been reading of enc of
the greatest events in the history of
the Republican party, as well as of
the state of Iowa. The personal
pronoun 81 of Des Moines and Me
Too of Fort Dodge. envious of the
lack OF approval by the Republicans of
the country of their efforts in the
| United States senate to bring our most
worthy President into disrepute. and
observing an almost uniform symptom
OF that tired feeling by which a
disguised public manifests its disap-
prevail of its hired servants who have
proven false to their trust. decided
! for the good of their own cause to
ltlnerate from Washington to Des
MONIES, for one night grand stand
play, in a combined effort to convince
the Republican party of its duty to
abandon its glorious record of the past
fifty-six years ana follow them into
the Democratic party.
Let me ask the gentlemen if they
have forgotten the sad fate which be,
fel. the peerless Sumner of Massa-
chusetts and the equally brilliant wac-
rior. Carl Schurz. after their studied
and mastery attack on the leader of
the Republican party, personified in
the person of U. S. Grant. for his
message on the San Domingo ques-
ton? These two giants of intellect,
whose combined influence far out
weighed that of any other two plus
ten in the United States senate, gave
advance notice that on certain day
and hour they would so humiliate the
hero OF Appomattox as to forever
dim the luster of his achievements
on the field of battle. They were so
formidable as debaters and orators
that none dared make ready a de-
Tense against that fatal hour. When
it came, in polished invectives and
faultless diction, brave old General
Sherman on the floor, faced the on,
slaught as long as possible and would
then retire to the cloak rooms to
swear and plead for some to accept
their challenge. He would return to
his seat. but to retire again to give
vent to his uncomfortable Indignation
One day after this event, our own
noble James Harlan of Iowa stepped
onto the scene, fred with indignation,
as well as inspired with love for the
silent man of the White House He
boldly took up the gauge of battle
and singly led what everyone but him
self considered forlorn hope against
! these hitherto invincibles When he
resumed his seat and the tim.d
friends of Grant realized that he had
been vindicated their joy and that of
Sherman knew no bounds. Harlan
was lifted on the shoulders of his adj
mirers while General Sherman has
tened to the White House to congratI-
late his old commander.
Ever afterwards Sumner and Schurz
were discredited by their own party
and ceased to make history from that
day and hour, and for the honor of
their posterity it were far better for
Sumner that the foul blow of Preston
Brooks of South Carolina should have
been fatal and that a friendly south
ern bullet on the battle field should
have made a corpse of Schurz rather
than he should have survived to make
living one of himself
Mr.. Senators. pardon me. but you
are dead men, and If you have any
friends left they should kindly per-
form the last act of sepulchre before
you become odoriferous, for after the
votes are counted in November and
Carroll is declared elected on the
Good Old Republican ticket even
against your earnest protest there
will be none to do you honor Your
place is in the Democratic party.
They claim you: we admit the claim
and the Republican party repudiates
| you.
Your defense at Des Moines drew
tears Of pity from many of your form,
er admirers, for 1t, like the defense
of Ben Tillman of South Carolina
against the charge of falsehood hurled
at him by the matchless Roosevelt.
was so surcharged by a consciousness
of guilt that every word you spoke,
but added TO your own condemnation.
/ Your conduct as false champions of
the greatest political party of all his
tory. is most deserving of form of
disapprovaI only expressible in I'M
printable adiectives, and for fear
may involuntarily commit myself to
their use, hasten to close.
J. A. NJ. COLLINS.
FACTORIES ON MISSOURI SIDE.