The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-27

THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
speech of senator sherman Before
the state Committee.

Senator Sherman was present at the
meeting of the Ohio republican committee
in Columbus on the 10Th instant He said
that he had come there in hopeful mood,
and saw nothing to discourage the repub-
lican party. The greatest liability to COM
plication in the coming campaign was in
the submission of the new constitution and
the license question. He regarded the new
constitution as an improvement as COM
pared with the old, but he thought there
would be no party issue on the constitution.
The temperance question might endanger
the constitution, but in his opinion it would
not affect the general result National
questions would be the questions at issue.
1t seemed to him absurd to make the tenn
perance question political issue. 1t was
best to leave it to the judgment of each
General Assembly, and he should vote that
way The questions of the campaign, Mr..
Sherman reiterated, would be questions
growing out of national politics. There
had never been more than one or two state
issues. Elections generally turned on ma
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bers of Congress to elect this fall, and the
proceedings of the last congress would have
much to do with the election. He believed
the republican party had the advantage in
this. If he was called upon to name the
best policy, he would say, to economic
largely and swiftly-not the economy talk
ed of by demagogues, but true economy.
The last congress has reduced the expenses
of the government twenty seven millions as
compared with the previous fiscal year.
The senator said the republican party must
meet questions as they arise. 1t would not
do to rely on the past. In politics there
was no gratitude. People were never
grateful for the past course of political
parties. He thought it necessary to take
ground for gradual and certain resump-
ton of specie payments. The republican
party could choose its grOund-that we
must settle down to gold and silver basis
In the last congress, while there were diff
ferences as to means and degree, it had
been determined not to go further away
from specie payments; that if there could
not be an approach there should not be a
retreat. 1t had been agreed that at the
next meeting OF congress the republicans
must be prepared to take an affirmative
position. Mr.. Sherman said it seemed to
him that the currency question would be
one of the great issues, and sufficient
basis had been made at the last session of
congress. The action of congress had been
wise, consderate and successful. Mr..
Sherman claimed the advantage for the re-
publicans on the currency question, and re-
ferred to the disadvantages of the dem
ocracy. He SAID that before they took the
position of the Indiana democrats on the
currency question, the democrats of Ohio
must throw off all the distinctive ideas of
the old Jackson school. As to the tariff
question, that had ceased, in some respects.
to be political question. The republican
party had shown its ability to deal with it
in wisdom and fairness. The duties on to-
bacco, whisky and beer were collected bet
ter than ever before in this country, and
perhaps better than in any other country.
The present tariff law was better than any
tariff law we had had in the past. Mr..
Sherman said there were no great overriding
issues There was no question of slavery
no country in jeopardy 40 animated spec
tacle of war. All there was to do was to
protect and encourage honest industry.
The questions before the people were sim
pie, economic questions The republican
party of Ohio had twenty years of victories
against an accidental victory last year for
the democracy There was nothing to dis
courage the republicans Noyes in the last
campaign had weighing on him the injudi-
cious action of congress. But the present
congress was judicious and fair. He had
been in ten congresses, and had never seen
one in which there was less to complain of
than in the present congress; none wherein
there was greater ability, and none less adj
| dicted to tue vice of intemperance.