The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-08-28
Secretary Sherman.

"oHIo WELCOMES THE NEXT PREsIDENT'
AT s3EUBENvILLE.
STEUBENvILLE, August 20.-Secretary
Sherman arrived at G 80 P. NJ. He was
escorted to his hotel by large concourse of
people and a brass band. At s O'Clock he
went to CARROTS Hall, and after being in
troduced by Col. John w. Holiday to an APP
preciative audience of over one thousand
people, proceeded to inaugurate the cam
paign. Over the stage, which was decorated
with flowers and flags, was the motto, "Ohio
welcomes the next President" General ].
S. Robinson, Chairman OF the Rep publican
State Executive Committee, and General
Samuel Carey were present. The latter will
speak tomorrow night, Sherman speaks at
Mansfield tomorrow. Mr.. Sherman spoke
as follows
Felzoav- Ciizens-I am happy to be again
among the people of Ohio, to whom l am
under the highest obligations OF duty and
gratitude, and especially to be here in the
good county of jefferson, whose representa-
tives have thrice honored me by their vote
when candidate for the Senate of the
United States. cheerfully come to speak
on matters in which you, as we'll as the
whole people of the United States, have
common interest, and l will best meet your
wishes by stating in plain, frank way such
facts and reasons as appear to me to justify
the support you have uniformly given to the
Republican party since its organization in
1854, and to present adequate grounds for
supporting it now. Three parties present
candidates to the people OF Ohio for the
highest offices of the State. 1t will not
be necessary or just for me to arraign the
personal character, standing or services OF
either OF the candidates on either of these
tickets. They are all respected citizens, and
each would no doubt, if elected, satisfactory
" perform the duties OF the Office for which
he is nominated. But the issues involved are
far more important than the candidates. l
assure you that upon the election in Ohio
depends questions OF public policy which
touch upon the framework OF our govern
ment and affect the interests of every citi-
zen of the United States. The same old
questions about which we disputed before
the war, and during the war, and since the
war, are as clearly involved in this campaign
as they were when Lincoln was elected, or
when Grant was fighting the battles of his
country in the Wilderness.
There are also financial questions involved
in this contest. The Republican party pro-
posed, maintained and executed the resump-
ton act as the best remedy for the evils that
followed the panic OF 1873. The Greenback
party not only denounces all that we have
done, but proposes to reverse it by the issue
of an almost unlimited amount OF irredeem-
able paper money, to destroy the system Of
free national banks, and to call in and pay
off all the United States bonds with ire
deemable money. The Democratic party Of
Ohio, both in its platform and by its candi-
dates supports more or less all of these dog
mas but it does so not as matter OF prns
pie. but of political power. Its main object
| is. by any sort of alliance on any real or pre-
| tended popular issue, to gain strength
enough to unite with the solid South, so that
| it may restore to power, in all departments
OF the national government, the very same
doctrines that led to the war, and the very
same men who waged it against the Union.
To obtain political power the Democracy
seek, by party discipline, to compel their
members to abandon the old and cherished
principles of their party of having sound
currency redeemable in coin. For this, they
overthrow Gov. Bishop; for this, they pro-
pose to reopen all the wild and visionary
schemes of initiation that have been twice
| rejected DV the people OL OulO. Our CUiltcst
with them is not only on financial questions
but of the power and duty OF the national
government to enforce the Constitution and
laws of the United States in every State and
Territory, whether in favor OF or against s ny
citizen of the United STATES.
PARTY DIFFERENCES ON FINANCIAL CUES
| TIONS.
Now, the first difference between parties
| in financial matters that it is necessary to
notice. is the cause of the recent period o
hard times, under which our country has
suffered and the next is,was the resumption
act wise and properremedy Our Green
back friends claim that the Republican par
| ty contracted the currency, and, in this way
is responsible for the hard times. The an
swer to this is, that there has been no con
traction of the currency since 1868, and thai
the amount of paper money outstanding or
the Both of June, 1878, was more than il
was on the Both OF June, 1865, at the close
of the war. If contraction of the currency
is the cause of the hard times, why did the
hard times extend to all Europe and to the
whole civilized world? It is clearly shown
that the panic OF 1873 extended in its widen
ing folds SO as to embrace all the CONNER
cial nations of Europe, which could not b.
affected by the volume OF our paper money
but still were affected by the general dis