Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-11-05
NUMBER 81.

case Will Dc tIloO.
DEAD THURMAN.
It is now certain that the Republican
have carried both branches of tho Ohil
legislature, and it is therefore an impos
sibility for Allen g. Thurman to be 10
turned to the United States senate, on
the expiration OF his term in March, '81
We can therefore say that Senator
Thurman is politically dead; and, In oul
connection with American politics fol
fve-and. thirty years, We never recorded
IN event with moro satisfaction. When
he entered the senate, nearly twelve
years ago, he enjoyed the reputation Of
an able jurist and also that Of IN honest
politician. He has gradually been d.
scending lower and lower in political
morality under the hope of the ~.
grandixement of himself or his party
until he has sunk to such q depth of
degradation that We may say there is not
more dishonest politician in the United
States senate.
Before the leprosy of the Greenback
delusion spread over the land, Thurman
was as true and unflinching An advocate
of honest money ~ any man who sat In
that senate; but when he saw there was
q possibility of aggrandixing himself BY
deserting the sound financial principles
of Jefferson and jackson, he hesitated
not q moment, but driftsd into the
theory of almost an unlimited issue Of
government paper, and at the same time
urged q series of measures which would
have destroyed the national banks, and
left the people only with q government
currency and the issues of the exploded
state bank system.
When any proposition was made
in congress for u debased coinage
of silver OF for . lightweig ut
dollar, not one Democrat dove lower
and deeper than this same Allan
Thurman, in order to catch the votes of
the Thousands of people In Ohio and
who were supposed 70 favor
anything good or bad in the form of
currency. Dan voorhees, and he were
often found voting together for the
EXTREMIST and widest financial measures
which could be proposed. This was the
more astounding to the country, b.
cause this same Allan Thurman had
previously often placed his votes on
the same record and on the same side of
finance as that of John Sherman, our
present secretary of the treasury. Those
who heard Thurman speak in the senate
were convinced that he was not honest
in his expressed convictions, but that he
was playing as base game for the presi.
dency, as American politician ever
engaged In.
The industrial interests of the country
will also never forget that he more than
any other Democratic senator, urged .
of measures at the close of the
March session in '79 which prevented
the passage of the appropriation bills,
and thus enforced the call for An extra
session of congren; and of late he has
advocated . monstreus doc
trine that congress had the right to
compel the president to sign the repeal
of q law obnoxious to that body, but
which the president approved, BY with:
holding supplies te carry on the national
admipistration In order to please his
southern supporters he urged congress to
refuse supplies until the president had
to the repeal OF the present
federal election law, which law 10 m
. special grievance to the rife and shot
gun clubs in the southern states He
failed in this congressional bull-doxing
through the firmness of President Hayes
Thurman has also surrounded himself
with some of the most disreputable poll
ticians in Ohio, with persons of such
reckless and unprtncipled characten in
political cheating, that NJ high-ninded
statesman would have sny associations
with them. Pendletop k.. been bad In
finance, but his associations are respect
able. Thurman has beGome e4usiiy
bad in finance, but his associations are
discreditable. II il . blessed thing for
the country that the political career OF
this man is ended. !
It is said there is . God In heaven.
We believe also there Is ! God In poll
tics, and this God il tie savenging retri.
button of an aroused and outraged
people upon q recreant and faithles
representative when they have an oppor.
tunity to pronounce upn his misdeodA
-Msloaukee EseWisg Wisoonsin.