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Show MORE OF THE FALSE PRETENSES. We presume that no one will much mind the self-sufficient and much-assuming I-am-purer-than-anybody-elso letter which Carl Schurz has written to Judge Parker, giving his adherence to him In this campaign. Mr. Schurz Is a chronic marplot and scold, his animus ani-mus being generally directed against the Republican parly for the reason that It refused to take him uji and give him continual office. There Is one part of his letter, however, that Is so clearly bawd on false premises that it Is -hcky for even Carl Schurz to put It in form. That Is where he iays, speaking direct to Judge Parker: "The principles princi-ples and opinions' you are known to hold as to the currency, imperialism, the tariff, and the civil service, strongly commend themselves to men of my ! way of thinking." In thly, Mr. Schurz evidently inj-ttp his own oplnlonu and principles Into Judge Parker's mind; for no ont dto J.ay been able to find out how the Judgr Biar.ds on these- points, When Mr. Bry.in questioned Mr. Hill, who was lij charge- of Judge Parker's candidacy. a! to the Judge's views on the currency cur-rency find other matters, Mr. Hill declared de-clared that he didn't know them; the public does not know them now, yao only af It might Infer them from the contrary standpoints that he voted for Mr. Bryan under both the Chicago and the Kansas City platforms, and the faiM that ho is now thr? wpecial candidate of tllO Gold lVmnfrnli fiml nf W.-ill cItaI Th alleged telegram disclosed nothing, say Ins: only that he regarded the gold iUindanl as established, without naylng .that he wanted It to. I low. then, did Mr. Schun: come b such perfect Information us to the state of Judge Pnrker's- mind? Th" answer Is that he didn't come by It at all; that ho doesn't know' It, but only assumes as-sumes that certain tiling dr.- bcllocd In by Judgv Parker In the hope that his false assumption may mislead those who might believe Schurz':, rulw-reprewntntlono rulw-reprewntntlono and through their, be led to Judge Parker's fmpport. not for the public at large (with which Schurz is thoroughly discredited), but for the betrayal of some foolish "Independents" who may still have faith In Schurz. The letter is in fact a transparent fraud, and in writing It Mr. Schurz, whether consciously or unconsciously, has exactly caught the spirit of tho Democratic campaign. Ills letter fits Into it an pat as the dodges and evasions eva-sions of the platform and the utterly conscienceless reply made to the so-called so-called Parker telegram. |
