Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-09
sHERMANs PRoFANE DEMAGoG

1lCOfANE DEM dUO01s
Gen. Sherman has almost as great pen
chant for being interviewed as Mr.. Hayes.
But although alike in this respect, the two
men are wholly dissimilar in others. Mr..
Hayes always smiles. He receives his ques-
toner with graciousness, beams with benev-
olence upon him, and says even the most
disagreeable things with so angelic smile
that the interviewer involuntarily examines
his shoulders in the expectation of seeing a
pair of adolescent pinions sprouting forth,
and he departs filled with admiration of the
wonderful goodness of the man who can
retain his composure in the face of all man
is altogether different. He greets his visitor
with an oath, loses his temper at the first
question: and proceeds to damn everybody
in creation who doesn't agree with him in
to the blush. He is not angry at being in
terviewed. On the contrary, he rather likes
I, and leads from one point to another until
he has traversed the whole ground of his
complaints, seasoning his remarks with
good round oaths at every turn. It is posi-
Die that he sometimes finds himself in the
condition of Byron's hero, Jack, who, once
on time,
was embarrass' d-never hero more,
And, az he knew not what to say-he swore,'
Sherman has just been interviewed for
the hundredth time regarding the army bill.
It is no secret that he doesn't like that
measure. In fact, he has taken particular
pains to let everybody know that sit is
blanked outrage, concocted by
a lot of double blanked fools,
who ought to be blank blanked
to blank for being guilty of such blanked
idiocy.'' In this particular interview, how
ever, he takes occasion to say, in answer to a
question of how the bill affects the army:
20, 1t raises hi. In the first place, it pre-
vents the use of the army to protect emigrants.
That posse cowitotass part Of the bill is the
merest piece of foolishness / know of. The
,rmy has always been subordinate to the civil
authorities but don't see, under the provis-'
,ons OF this act, how the army be used to
suppress riots protect the emigrants, unless
The President declares martial law in the ex-
cited district, or declares war against the par
ticular tribe of Indians
All of which u man of sense, if in the habit
of using Sherman's fayorite explosives, will
pronounce BANKED nonsense. Gen. Sher-
man is not fool enough to be ignorant of the
fact that the posse c0n,itatus clause of the
bill does not interfere with the duties of the
army in any such way. The army can be
legally used for any purpose for which it is
required, just as readily now as at any pre-
vious time-can protect emigrants. suppress
riots and fight the Indians as of yore, on re-
quest of the legally constituted authorities
Gen. Sherman, in attempting to create the
impression that the powers of the army are
in any way abridged or its usefulness i'm
paired by the act in question, is playing the
part of dishonest demagogue, hardly in
keeping with the dignity of the position he
holds. The head and front of the offending
of the act, is in the prohibition it contains
of the use of the troops for an illegal, un-
constitutional purpose--for the intimidation
of voters at elections. This, we have re-
peatedly shown, does not affect the legal
rights of the army; it simply emphasizes
an existing provision of the constitution
which had been repeatedly violated. If this
"raises h-l' with the army, we are sorry
for it, for the provision will not be altered.