Harper's Weekly

“ MR. CARL SCHURZ AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The honors which have been recently offered to Mr. Carl Schurz have a greater public than personal significance. His career has made him the representative of the general desire of reform in political methods and spirit which prevails in the country, and those who are bent upon that reform greet Mr. Schurz with continuous enthusiasm. In his speeches he maintains the necessary supremacy of conscience in politics, and his accomplishments and readiness and eloquence enable him to speak to the sympathy and hope of all patriotic men. ”

“ And at the German dinner, on the next evening, he said, with the faith in America and want of faith in the “Reform Democracy” which show his great good sense:
“Corruption is the greatest evil which can afflict a free people. There are pessimists who look at the surface of our national affairs, and say that corruption is every where supreme. He who knows the American people knows, however, that they are sound at the core. ”

“ If an American is a Republican with Blaine, he can not be a Democrat with Bayard; and if in a free country he has great political objects at heart, he must seek them by the usual political methods.
But the important result of this demonstration was the declaration made by Mr. Schurz himself, the accepted leader of the “independent” or “liberal” body, that the political reform and purification of administration so earnestly desired are not to be found in the Democratic party. ”