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Show Dirge Carl Schurz Played I 4 Rendered "The Heart Bowed Down" After Horace Greeley Was Nominated Nomi-nated by the Liberal Republican Convention in 1872. One of the men who took a very prominent part in the organization of the famous Liberal Republican party movement of the early seventies, which instantly went to pieces following follow-ing Greeley's defeat for president by General Grant, running for re-election in 1872, was the late Samuel Bowles, for more than thirty years prior to his death in 1878 a powerful editorial influence in-fluence throughout the country. Allied with him in the task of organizing the Liberal Republican party were three other famous editors, the late Murat Halstead, Henry Watterson and the late Carl Schurz, then United States senator from Missouri. These four men were prominent members of the national -convention of the Liberal Republicans, held in Cincinnati in 1872. But not one of them had planned for Mr. Greeley's nomination. Their candidate was Charles Francis Adams of Boston. Yet, brilliant editors though they were. r they could not match in political skill . some of the professional politicians in he convention, with the result that the latter got control of the convention, conven-tion, sidetracked Mr. Adams and brought about Mr. Greeley's nomination. nomina-tion. The fall following the defeat of Mr. i Greeley. I visited Mr. Bowles, at his j invitation, in his office in the Spring-' Spring-' field (Mass.) Republican building. It was the first time I had met him, and I was amazed to note the facility with ; which he carried on all kinds of business, busi-ness, both editorial and that of the publication office, at the same time that he talked over earnestly the particular par-ticular matter that had brought about my visit. "Ah," exclaimed Mr. Bowles, "I am glad you were interested in our party. I nope all the young men of the country coun-try were interested in it. It was really real-ly a young man's protest against some of the excesses into which the Republican Repub-lican party was in danger of falling. We were defeated, but the Liberal Republican Re-publican movement accomplished its purpose." "Mr. Bowles," I said, "may I ask you one question? I have heard that immediately im-mediately after the defeat of Charles Francis Adams by Mr. Greeley, Senator Sena-tor Carl Schurz, yourself and some other leaders went to a hotel and that Mr. Schurz, to express his regret over Mr. Adams' defeat played " "Yes, yes," broke Ifl Mr. Bowles, while an amused smile swept across his features, "tr.at is true, and here and there, I believe, tome report of the incident did creep Into print. But I will te'l you the incident fu'ly. "With t'.:e convention's work over, wo wert back to our betel in a very desrendect niocd. We foresaw that tl-e nomination rf ?."r. Greeley made defeat in Novenber inevltab'e, and we rnV.lzed that t'je defeat would prob-; prob-; ab'y be a very scrrewful one. We ! wrnt into the par'cr of tee suite occu-! occu-! l ied by Mr. Schurz and sat down, i with the glcom abect i;s thicker than j I ever saw it before. Mr. Schurz was especially despondent; his is a very nvrcrial temperament, anvway. Murat Mu-rat TJa'rto.vl was the mot cheerful member rf the rarty. and he looked a p:ocd deal as though he had just cove from a dear frirnd's funeral. And eaeh cf us sat th-re communin" with his cwn g'.um thoughts; we did not need to Freak to lot one ancteer know cur f eelinrrs. "We had been slttir, thus for a nuartcr rf an hour, mavbe. when, snd-d'niy, snd-d'niy, ,-. Schurz sprang from hif chair, lurried over to the piano, lifted the lid, sat i:rm Vr.c Flool and began to p'av. as tl-e brief re'pert had it, the familiar a'r cf 'Tho Hea't Cowed I Down With Crief,' fron the 'Bohemian Girl.' Then, after a little, he began to j hum and then te- sins the accompani-i accompani-i in:nt. r.nd. I think, some cf us joined j in the hun'Tiine;. I "'. don't b-j'.ievo cnyena could have frund a better iece cf music to ex-1 ex-1 rc?s our feelings at t'eat moment. Crr hearts wrre ee'ta'n'y bowed down with grief, fcr v. e had failed to nominate nomi-nate crr man. and we saw certain de-i de-i feat n'eeed. Ch. row funereal that mu-ric mu-ric rcurdcil t'eat .lav! Yet now, as I recall the fne'dent. i cmnot help smil'ir; cvrr the fact Carl Schurz thru'.d hive se'eetcd a co-nic opera tune as t'.:e cne rrort f.ith to serve as the 1 ir ? cf tl:e Liberal Republican movement." (Copyrig','.:. n-Q. by r;. .1. Ivlvrards. A!) !1 TVr; Tl 'sorvpid t |