Carl Schurz

“ Cleveland's astounding triumph has been duly pondered, the gentlemen of the Democratic Party who devote their time to the strifes of politics will be convinced that the power intrusted to their party because of the soundness of its principles and the perfect trustworthiness of its candidate can be retained only by keeping faith with the people. ”

“ The great State of New-York should send its best-equipped citizen to speak for it in the Senate, to give full authority to its opinions and due weight to its influence. Its immense commercial interests give it a stake in Congressional legislation that can be safely guarded only by a Senator of statesmanlike stature. ”

“ In the State of New-York the Democracy has an opportunity by a conspicuous act of wisdom to confirm the popular confidence in its soundness, and to give a new guarantee of its devotion to purposes that every citizen must recognize as pure and noble. Having a majority of twenty on a joint ballot of the two branches of the Legislature the Democrats will choose from their own party a United States Senator to succeed Mr. Hiscock on March 3 next. In our opinion they can elect no one whose presence in the Senate would confer so high an honor upon the State and upon their party as Mr. Carl Schurz. ”