Evening journal., 1913-11-11
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
When Carl SChurz Took Off
His Mask
By Holland.

Three or four days after the ad-
ministration OF President Rutherford
B. Hayes became history there came
into my office at Washington gem
tleman whom / had never met per-
sonally, although as newspaper
man unknown by name to him, ! had
talked to him.
He was Carl Schurz. lie had just
completed four years service in tho
administration of President Hayes as
secretary OF the interior spent a
part of one afternoon in his Office in
the Interior Department listening to
a consultation which he was carrying
on with scme Of those who represent
ed the Indian wards OF tho nation.
The Bureau OF Indian affairs was
under the authority OF the secretary
of Che interior Far more than by
anything that was said although the
discussion was somewhat heated at
times was interested in the per-
sonality of General Sohurz himself.
He sat erect in bis revolving chair.
His face was icy i'm It's expression.
When questions caipc from his HIPS
{ IL seemed almost as though a marble
statute spoke.
had earlier seen General Schurz
whom he was on his way to Boston
as "a member OF the Senate committee
appointed to- accompany the body OF
4 Charles Sumner to Massachusetts
/ General Schurz sat anart in the par
/ lor car from the other Senators Flo
was impassivc. almost as motionless
as he would nave been had he been
frozen TO his seat He turned with a
cold, distant look, not moving his
head but simply his eyes, and saw
from the parlOr car window a great
company that had gathered in the
railway station of Hartford TO look
az Charles Summers funeral train
Yet had every one who stood i'm that
great throng been invisible, General
Schurzs manner could not have been
more emotionless, as though he were
sightless.
These, as we'll as one or two other
experiences which / had. persuaded
me that Carl Schurz was a man with
out power of emotion of any kind eX-
Cepting that which ambition creates.
] could not understand how a man Of
that phlegmatic, glacier-like person
ality could have obtained and kept the
great personal influence which was
undoubtedly his possession.
was, therefore, all the more aston
ished when General Schurz with a
beamlng cOuntenance, a most cordial
manner and delightful suggestion
of personal charm, came to my office
and in the most democratic way seated
himself upon a corner of a table,
swinging one leg.
He must have noticed my en-
barrassmcnt, for he said "Why didp .
you come to see me oftencr when
was secretary of the INTERIOR
He did not give me an opportunity
to answer that question. He said 81
! have come in here because this is a
! newspaper Office. and ! am going &c
return TO my first love. There IL
nothing in the holding Of public OF
flee which compares IN my opinion
with the eXhileration of printers ink
the hustle of the composing room
/ the swift writing of The editorial an'
/ all the energies which 90 to make Z
! newspaper"
81 cannot tell you now exactly the
path by which am TO return e
journalism ! viii say to you tha
have often envied the Washington
correspondents OF the great news
papers and ] have felt that they have
2 greater power. so far as influencing
public opinion is concerned, than any
Cabinet officer possesses"
He must have seen my eager lool
Of inquiry for he said. mo, ! an
not going 70 be a Washington CORE
spondent although 7 think ono Of Tho
greatest opportunities of American
journalism is TO be found here il
Washington But | am going bacl
10 newspaper work and look forwar'
to Il with the keenest anticipation
hope I shall be successful II
/ am successful there my career vii
be continued and will end
A few days later I read the an
ncuncement that General Sohurz wa
to be associated with r. l.. Godkii
and Horace White in the control an
editorial management of the New
York Evening Post After an hour
chat With General Schurz ] realize
| that he wore mask when ] saw hin
in public Office and that when he too
this mask off he revealed the qualitie
which had gained for him such ma
tion-wide popularity AS he onjoye,