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 The Honorable, of Boston, presided.

The various periods of Mr. Schurz's public career were made the subjects for the speeches of the evening.

They were:

Young Germany in the Storm and Stress Period.

The Champion of the Slave.

The Soldier in the Civil War.

The Statesman in Reconstruction.

The United States Senator.

The Member of the Cabinet.

The Civil Service Reformer.

The Sound Money Presidential Campaign.

The Chairman, in his opening speech, sketched briefly the distinguished services rendered by Mr. to his country, and referred at length to the deficiency, in our political system, as the result of which such men are rarely retained in official and parliamentary life, to the country's inestimable loss. While Mr. sat in the Senate, elected from Missouri, the speaker, though a resident of Massachusetts, had been completely, almost ideally, represented there. When he was called to the Cabinet, the services of a thoroughly equipped and brilliant parliamentarian were necessarily lost. Such constituencies as in England or Germany would have returned a man of this stamp to the House of Commons or to the Reichstag, as quickly as opportunity offered,