The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-08-26
Especial dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.l
Remarkable Utterances by Mr. thur
man.


CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 17.--On sun
day morning last about ii O'Clock,
Senator Thurman aud Mr.. Theodore
Cook, OF Cincinnati, were sitting in
front OF the West House at Putin
Bay, and, in the presence of a third
party, engaged in an earnest and
mournful conversation on the Demo-
cratic ticket ana the prospect in the
State. Mr.. Cook, In the course Of the
conversation, expressed q poor opinion
of Sam Cary, saying that he was too
much of dead weight for the party
to carry, and that the party made a
great mistake in nominating bim-5O
much so that the ticket was in alb
soIute danger of defeat. Mr.. Thur
man responded, saying that he agreed
with Mr.. Cook in that he had no re-
spect for Mr.. Cary, as he considered
him q mere political adventurer, mar
row-minded, perfectly unpFlneipled,
with an active mini but totally un.
balanced. He believed him to be an
unserupulous demagOgue, one whose
great forte is to appeal tn the passions
OF his hearers. In fact, he considered
Cary to be an Out-and-out Communist.
AS for himself, the Senator said un-
der no circumstances would he speak
at the same meeting where Sam Cary
was t0 speak, for his self-respect for
bale him to be seen in his company.
He said he never heard Cary but
twice iu his life, and did not wish to
hear him again under any cireum-
stance, so great was his feeling of
contempt for that hypOcritical tenn
perance spouter. He heard him de-
liver a temperance lecture in COlum-
bus from the west end Of the State
House some years ago, but his vitu-
peratiye abuse OF men who dealt in
LIQUORS was so violent and slanderous
that he only remained few minutes,
and came sway disgusted. The next
time he heard Sam was at GAINESVILLE,
curing the campaign of 1872, when he
(Tburman) had an opportunity to
sDeak. When he arrived at the
place of meeting he found, much 10
his surprise, that Sam Cary was an
nounced as one of the speakers, and
was compelled, in spite Of himself, to
listen to him.
Mr.. Cook remarked that 1t was
very unfortunate for the Democracy
that the Catholic question had been
brought in I; that it was going to re-
suit in many Democrats voting with
the Republicans, and many more in
staying away from the polls. He
feared that this alone would lose the
State to the Democracy.
Mr. Thurman replied emphatically:
"Yes we shall lose the State. The
id priests have oyerdone the thing
by sticking their noses into our poll
tics, and they deserve to be beaten TO
teach them their place. The Demo-
crscy only have themselves to blame
in submitting to the demands OF the
priests In the way they did. Ii was
unfortunate, indeed, that the Catholic
question was lugged into the cam
paign. The Democracy was the only
party that ever did anything for the
Catholics, and it would seem that the
more that IS done for them the more
they VIII demand. Their arroganceis
insufierable, aud as we shall be defeat
ed any way, hope it will hereafter
teach these meddlesome priests q les
sou that they will understand,-tb
Is, to let politics alone. 1 for one.
dont propose to stand any further
nonsense from these fellows" The
Senator went on to defend the po-
sition he took in his Mansfield speech
saying that be had been most outrage
ously abused and misrepresented by
the Republican press that, had ne
come out hat-footedly in opposition
to the financial plank in the State
platform, he would have been more
bitterly abused by his own party
press for the position he had taken in
that speech therefore that position
was the best for his own personal in
terests.
The above report Of the CONVERSE
ton is correct as far as sentiments ut
tered were concerned. The language
may very little. His expression in
regard to Cary, the priests, and ae-
knoWledging that the State Is lost,
are given in his exact language.