Carl Schurz

“ I, therefore, would ask you to submit to the Executive Committees of the National Civil Service Reform League, and of the Civil Service Reform Association of New York, my earnest request that the representative positions at present held by me, be transferred to some member or members not laboring under the difficulties peculiar to my position, and that the action of the Executive Committees be referred to the annual or called meetings of the respective organizations for appropriate action. ”

“ That criticism might, coming from me or from officers of our organization supposed to act under my direction, be liable to be suspected of being prompted by a desire to carry on a systematic antagonism to the Administration, my opposition to it with regard to other policies having in the mean time become more conspicuous. ”