The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-09

ury as this may do for the back country pre-
cincts, where the inhabitants have not yet
learned that the rebellion Is ended, or. as Gen.
Grant puts It, "the past liz gone;" but INTEL
iigent men of all parties will cordially agree
that 1t Is unworthy OF statesman
such us Mr.. Shermans friends claim him to
be. Even SO stalwart an organ rs the New
York Times feels constrained to say In this
connection that Mr.. Sherman's repeated and
extensive abuse of the high office which he
holds, In the interest OF his personal amb-
ton, shows 50 condition of things highly dis
creditable TO the Secretary of the Treasury,
and that 1t reflects directly upon the party
which has SO long and greatly honored him,
and now as he appears Of his own motion to
present his claims to promotion to position
of infinitely greater importance than his
present one, his past Intidelty to the require
ments OF his trust cannot be brushed aside
with hypocritical phrase" OF course the
Ohio statesman makes resumption an Inn
portant feature of his speech, and boldly de-
clares that the Republican party proposes
now to maintain the policy OF resumption and
refunding which has been SO successfully ex-
ecuted thus far, but must be supported here
after by the friendly action of the govern
ment." In this 1t will be seen that the mod
est secretary embodies nice compliment for
himself, which 1t would perhaps be ungener-
GUS to object to In view of the fact that such
words of commentator are not likely to over
whelm him from any other source 1t might,
perhaps, be well to remind the earnest and
determined self-boomer that the great mass
of the people of the United States have long
since deliberately arrived at the conclusion
that higher law" had rather more to do
with the return OF our country's prosperity
than the resumption law, and that conse-
quently John Sherman was not SO specially
commissioned with Its execution" as he Is
disposed to claim. And with such per-
sons the opinion Is likely to prevail
that the support OF the meas
depend upon divine will about as much. If
not more, than upon ''the friendly action of
the government" Alb lndant harvests, and an
influx of gold from gn countries are the
true sources OF our present national pros
perity and should be regarded as the object
Of our thanksglvings. After the financial
question Mr.. Sherman's programme includes
as next In prominence the Southern problem,
which he undertakes to solve In a nutshell
by the proposition that "every citizen OF the
United States, In the South as we'll as In the
North. must be secure In the enjoyment of
civil and political rights, and every power OF
the national government must be exercised
to this end" The first part of this PROPOSE
ton Is SO ancient that 1t will not admit OF
argument, while the latter portion may be
considered IS especially aimed at Southern
lawlessness as viewed from the stalwart
Radical standpoint. Coming from such
wel-defined hostiles as Blaine or
Edmunds, this sentiment would
appear perfectly orthodox, but from MEM
Der OF the Hayes administration 1t is likely
to excite unfavorable comment even In Re-
publican circles. In fact the leading Repub-
lcan newspaper aforementioned, has already
said that that there Is a we'll founded i'm
preston In the Republican party that the ad-
mtnistration, OF which Mr.. Sherman Is the
chief member, has failed signally to do what
could and ought to be done for the security OF
equal rights, and that impression Is not ia
vorable to the selection of Mr.. Sherman as
a presidential candidate" 1t would thus ap-
pear that the Secretary OF the Treasury
does not start out with very big
boom as a bloody shirt candidate,
while there are others and far more
agitators of the ensanguined
garment In the Republican ranks and 1t Ia to
be feared that by November next an migrate
full public will even forget that he, and he
alone, blessed them with return of prosper
Gus times. Nevertheless there Is no ques-
tioning the fact that the name OF John Sher-
man has been mentioned" In connection
with the presidential nomination; and there
are, doubtless, people in the State of Ohio
who would be willing to wager odds that he
will be selected at Chicago in May, and elect
ed In November. There Is no accounting for
the vague ideas that get possession of peo-
pies minds, somehow, about the period of
presidential election.
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