Year: 1875

day, Will command universal attention, not
only by the clearness and cogency of his
reasoning but also by the popularity of his
political position. Mr. Schurz takes pains
to impress upon his audience at the outset,
that he does not appear before them as a
republican acting in the service of that
! party and aiming to promote its success in
! the Presidential election, but as an independ-
ent citizen seized with alarm at fnan-
cial heresies whose success in Ohio
would subvert the public credit and
ruin the business of the country.
He reserves his right to vote for or against
any candidate who may be nominated for
the Presidency by either party next year.
lie stands by all he has ever said against
the mistakes of the present administration,
and thinks the republican party ought by
this time to be convinced that it would have
acted more wisely had it paid greater def
erence to the views of himself and his as
sociates. He approaches the financial ques-
ton not as a partisan, but as a patriot and a
political economist, and discusses it on
higher grounds than its bearing on the great
party struggle of next year.


Mr.. Schurz does not attempt, like the
hard money democratic press of the Eastern
States to belittle the Importance of the Ohio
contest, nor to disguise the tremendous effect
Governor Aliens election would have on the
politics Of the country. He is too well ac-
! quainted with Western and Southern feeling
to underrate the conhagration which would
be kindled if such frebrand as q great in
fation success in Ohio were flung into the
combustible elements which the long stagna-
ton of business has made as dry as tinder
He does not conceal his opinion that an in
fation victory in the most important State
of the West would cause this dangerous in
fatuation to spread through the country
like wildfre. He avows his belief that the
election of Governor Allen would put the
infationists on the sure road to ascen-
dancy in the democratic party and that
the growth of popular delusion would give
them control Of the national government and
enable them to perpetrate irreparable mis-
chief His manly recognition of the full
extent of the danger shows that Mr. Schurz
has not gone to Ohio to practise the arts of a
demagogue. We do not doubt the correct
ness of his judgment as to the boldness and
proselytizing vigor which would be impaired
to the infationists by a triumph in Ohio.
No attentive observer can be free from the
apprehension that such a triumph would
cause infationists to start up even in the
hard money States, nor that it would give
them an irresistible preponderance in the
States already infected. We entirely agree
with Mr.. Schurz that Governor Aliens cleo
ton would enable his supporters to control
the Democratic National Convention.
Nothing is gained by affecting to despise
real danger.


After asserting his political independence
and disclaiming any purpose to help either
party in the Presidential canvass, Mr.. Schurz
addresses his speech to democrats, arguing
with them on the basis of their professed
principles 1t is such a speech as Senator
Thurman ought to have made but did not,
when his party in Ohio embarked in this
dangerous campaign. There are none of the
main arguments employed by Mr. Schurz
which would not have become the mouth
and have been consistent with the antece-
dents of Senator Thurman if he had pos
sessed the political courage to stand up and
resist the madness of his own party.
The substance of Mr.. Schurz's speech will
be indorsed by the democratic party of New
York, to whose platform he alludes with
strong approval, though expressing the opin-
ion that it is barrier which will be swept
down by the imitation tide if the democrats
elect their ticket in Ohio. 1t was q happy
thought which led Mr. Schurz to argue from
democratic standpoint, address himself to
democrats, and make such speech as would
be expected of Governor Tilden if he were
to speak in the Ohio canvass, and such
speech as Senator Thurman ought to have
made in consistency with his record as q
hard money statesman.


Mr.. Schurzs apt and lucid reasoning will
naturally have a great effect. No man in the
country has a greater power of enlisting
public attention, and the neat way in which
he explodes Governor Aliens ridiculous fall
lacies should make % great impression
There are at least thirty thousand German
voters in Ohio and at least thirty thousand
liberal republicans who voted for Mr.
Greeley in 1872. All of these will weigh Mr.
Schurzs arguments with friendly candor
and it is to be hoped that they may also find
access to the minds of fair-minded demo-
Gratis. If Ohio is rescued from the in1ation-
lists it will be largely due to the speeches of
Mr. Schurz, who will continue to take an
active part in the canvass until its close.


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