The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-17
Chs Semtimsl.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
SENATOR SHERMAN.


had prominent position in the radical
party and without giving him any special
attention we had come TO the conclusion
that he was about as square as a radical
ever gets in this world. We hope in the
''sweet evermOre' that they will all DE made
over again and improved, and that
the devil viii not get the entire party.
But we unhappily find John Sherman yet in
human mold as he came from his cOnstitu-
ents in OHIO plus the effects of over fifteen
years of Washington radical life. We be-
lieye we have been egregiousIy mistaken in
regard to Sherman. If he ever had any fair
ness, any what we will call) political char
ity, any boldness TO denounce rascality in
his own party. any manly qualities OF the
kind witch manly natures never allow 10
be sullied with party tricks-if, We say, John
Sherman ever had any of these qualities
named--he has lost them as efiectually and
thoroughly as Wendell Phillips claims GER
tain arts, known only to the ancients, are lost.
John Sherman may have gone to Washing
Ton with the freshness and fairness of pro-
vincial lawyer, with determination to DO
his duty fairly and squarely to his con-
science, himself. his people and his "God.
He may have been successful in his deter
mination so long as he remained in the
lower house. But be this as II may. certain
it is that John Sherman is a different oharac-
ter altogether to the one we had supposed lie
Was.
It's sad to contemplate a man Of fine
l..
thoroughly demoalized by the influence of
ridicalism. His seat in the senate chamber
is next to Mortons. and we sometimes
think that sitting next to Morton for two
or more terms IN the United States senate
will demoralize any man. Even men Of OPP
posing political schools who sit side by side
naturally grow to pleasant familiarity with
each other. The rough edges of political
differences are rounded off, aud altogether,
quite a conservative settling of opinion is
noticeable How much more then when
two of the same political school come to-
gether and for years sit side by side con-
verse, compare opinions, reveal to each
other aims and ambitions, aed even take
counsel concerning questionable steps and
u
bad influence over any man that would 60
and sit down by him, and see him and talk
with him from day to day. The moral phi
losopher says that no man can even read
anything without being influenced thereby
How much more then must a man
be Influenced by daily intercourse with
. bold, bad mana man of
man who has no really patriotic impulses,
who is eaten up by ambition, who is always |
expected 10 do the questionable, underhand- |
ed work Of large party. and who is always |
perfectly willing 10 do it-such man will |
demoralize any that sits next to him |
for years in daily intercourse. Oliver P. |
Morton is the man and John Sherman sits |
next to him. John Sherman has been |
an apt pupil, and to-day is thoroughly |
educated up TO do any dirty work that |
Oliver p. Morton or the radical party want |
done
We base an opinion upon his recent move |
ments in New Orleans and his more recent |
speech in the senate. In New Orleans, as |
one of the COMMITTEES on the part of the rad |
icals to see that the four returning board |
scoundrels counted Mr. Tilden out,
he was a pre-eminent success. He |
managed matters as brilliantly as a sharp |
shystering attorney would conduct an as |
sault and battery case before Mayor Caven |
for a client that he knew ought to have been |
in the penitentiary for years past He |
joined in heartily with the scheme to swim |
a 10 Of I, oil
find him writing and telegraphing to Mr. |
Hayes as the swindle proceeds, and finally |
staying in New Orleans as long as a scoun- |
drelly affidavit could be bought, and then |
with breathless haste con ito Washington" |
arriving early in the morning, gets into the |
white house through the kitchen, up the |
back stairway into Grants boudoir, throws |
the whole budget into toe presidents arms,
g asps put them all into your message to- |
day" and swOons. General Barlow, a re-
publican and the radical candidate for |
sheriff; Mr.. Carr, Of De Soto parish, whom |
the returning board had counted in, but |
who manly enough to acknowledge his |
defeat, both denounced the whole batch of |
rascality. Again we see this senator of the |
United States, within the last few days, |
from his seat in the senate defend with all |
his power the returning board rascality in |
set phrase and speech. and indOrse as proper
and correct all the bogus affidavits, state
ments and accounts made by the hired tools
of radicalism in Louisiana. Even Eliza
Pinkston was defended, and her husband pa |
raded as a radical martyr, when the facts
warrant us in saying that he was a demo-
cat. killed by radical negroes and she a
bold. bad woman, prostitute and totally in
capable of telling the truth. As to the value