Harper's Weekly

“ Schurz has been consistently true it is the principle of Civil Service Reform. Whether allied to the Republican party or to the Democratic, whether on the crest of the wave of success or struggling in the undertow of defeat, in the face of scorn, contempt, ridicule, in fair weather as well as in foul, he has been its ardent champion, suffering such slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in its behalf as would have overwhelmed most other men, never for once yielding up a jot of his devotion to it. ”

“ We prefer to believe it the first step of the late President of the League toward that reformation for which his best friends have been praying, the initial point of which is the realization by the offender of his own unworthiness. ”