Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-08-28
Sherman, the Hypocrite.

campaign in Ohios The fraudulent
Secretary of the Interior has done
likewise. Their salaries go on all
the same, else probably they would
have remained at Washington to
attend to the duties they are paid by
the people to perform.
Mr.. Sherman opened his Ohio cam
paign by speech at Steubenville on
Wednesday night. His only note
worthy utterance was to the effect that
the Republican party is determined
to have not only free but fair elections,
cost what it will" The remainder of
the address was leather and prun-
ella"
Now, by what right, we should like
to know, does this man Sherman as
sumo to speak for fair and free elec.
tions? Himself, 40 far as his official
position is concerned, the product of
the most villainous electoral fraud ev,
er conceived by political knaves, how
does he become teacher in Israel TO
instruct his countrymen in political
morals?
II, however, this travelling cabinet
minister must play the hypocrite and
lecture the country as to its duty in
regard to honest elections, would he
not have found field better adapted
to his labors in the New England
States which he but recently visited at
the expense Of the government? 1t
is in those Republican strongholds
that the people are disfranchised on
account of their poverty, bulldozed
out of freedom of choice at the polls
by their employers and bribed to vote
the Republican ticket at so much per
head.
Or if the people of the South need
instruction a. to the method of con
ducting fair and free elections, why
does not the pious and patriotic Mr..
Sherman 20 and deliver his lectures
to those people, instead of vexing the
tired auricles Of the model Ohio pat
riots who never think of doing any
thing that would initiate against the
fairness or freedom of elections, espe-
cially when Tom Young and Ben But
terworth are candidates in Cincinnati?
1t will not do for Mr.. Sherman to
say that he would be ill-treatcd in the
South if he should go there to speak
in favor of honest elections. lie
would be welcomed with open arms.
He certainly cannot have forgotten
that on the occasion of his last visit to
New Orleans, just after the presiden-
tial election in 1876. the Southern
people were exceedingly anxious that
he should deliver a lecture in favor
Of an honest count before the Louisi-
ana returning board. 1t is true he
failed them then and they have natu-
rally lost confidence in him, but he
would have no difficulty in restoring
himself in their good graces if he
would simply remind them of the fact
that while he favored the disfranchise-
mcnt of the 10000 Louisiana Demo
crats who voted for Tilden he recog-
nized the right Of the same 10000
Democrats to vote for and elect Gov.
ernor Nichols.
John Sherman in favor of fair and
free elections! When the prostitute
practices chastity, when the robber
protects property, when the devil
turns saint, let this canting, cozening
pharisee be trusted as an honest advo-
cate of free and pure ballot. With
his record as counselor to the infa-
nous Louisiana returning board, as
manipulation of false election returns,
rs distributor of rewards to proven
and selfconfessed forgers and perju-
rers, he ought to be hissed from the
stump by the hot Indignation of the
people whom he insults by his impu-
dent and shameless pretenses.
Men Who Can Afford TO Take 1t.