Harper's Weekly

“ Greeley, elected by Democratic votes and Democratic machinery, will be virtually a Democratic President, or if not, then a fly upon the wheel. An organized party which elects its candidate, and with him a Congress, controls the Administration. So Mr. Schurz's movement would end not in a new party of homogeneous principles, and composed of the best men of the present parties, but in a mass of unequal parts, from which the best men of both parties would hold aloof. It would not dissolve parties, but merely leave the old Democratic party masters of the field. ”

“ The real spring is personal. It is baffled influence and fruitless desire of office counting upon Republican dissatisfaction and Democratic demoralization to play a bold confidence game and win the Presidency. Senator Schurz can see it if he will. ”

“ He has the unbending integrity, the familiarity with great principles and confidence in them, the ample knowledge, the legislative experience, the self-relying heroism and independence, the electric eloquence, which the times demand. ”

“ Senator Schurz is the most pronounced of the Republican opponents of the renomination of the President, for he has announced that he will not support it. If it be made, therefore, the Senator would probably dissolve his active connection with the party. We do not understand that any other leader has taken exactly this position. ”

“ It is not a pleasant thing to allude to such matters, but he was constrained to do so, and he properly said that it is not to be expected that a man who is not rich should give his services in a campaign without compensation. ”

“ He knows — no man better — that while there has been much discontent in the Republican party, it has been because of the supposed influence of a certain class of unscrupulous politicians, and that it is not a discontent which will follow him out of the party to seek a remedy from worse specimens of the same class, who are the vociferous managers of Mr. ”