The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-07-20
SHERMAN sULKrNG.


Treasury, refuses to be comforted.
The fact that in the event of Garfeld's
election his lease of the Secretaryship
will be extended four years longer, af-
fords him very little consolation. He
thinks he was cheated out of the nomi
nation at Chicago. and as he has but
very little hopes of Garfelds election,
the promise of the nomination four
years hence does not sooth his wounded
spirit.
John Sherman has been working as
siduously for the prize, of which he i'm
AGNES he was defeated by his professed
friends, for years. He is the father of
the national banks, which General
Weaver, the Greenback candidate for
President, truly says are being enriched
at the expense of the people. He,
sought to secure the influence OF the
bond holders, money lenders and corpo-
rations of the whole country by his
opposition to the Silver bill, and if Con-
gress had been governed by his counsel
silver coins to-day would be a drug in
the market, and the employees of wealthy
corporations would be paid as they were
few years ago, in deprecated money
which could be bought in San Francisco
and other money centres at from three
toeight per cent. discount. In his at
tempt to demonetize silver he was Sec
ended by General Garfield, who now
appeals to the voters of the silver pro-
ducing States for their suffrages. But
the fact that General Garfield ably Sec
ended his efforts to make silver mer-
charitable commodity like copper and
lead, with no fixed value, does not
ceter John Sherman from believing that
he was sold for the benefit of James A.
Garfield at Chicago, and that Garfield
was party to the transaction. He has
nrbosomed himself to George Town
send, better known. as ''Gath," the
Washington correspondent of some of
The leading eastern papers,. "Gath"
found Sherman alone breeding over the
Eanrer in which he was sold out by his
so-called friends The Secretary un-
burdened his grief-laden mind to the
correspondent, and told him the tale of
his sad woe. He said last year a Gov
error was to be elected in Ohio, and
the contest for the nomination was
sharp and spirited between Charles Fos-
ter, who had been Republican leader
in Congress, and Alphonso Taft; who
had been Attorney General under
Grants administration. When the
tide was setting in favor Of Taft, Sher-
man went to Ohio and threw the weight
Of his influence in favor of Foster At
Sherman's request the banks and corpo-
rations generally changed from Taft to
Foster, and the latter was nominated
and elected. For this favor Foster was
expected to assist Sherman in the con-
test for the Presidency, and Sherman
regarded him as his next friend. Gov
ernor Foster was chosen delegate at
large from Ohio to the Chicago Conven-
tion, and Sherman naturally supposed
that he would be the last man in the
Ohio delegation to give up the fight for
Sherman, to whom he was indebted for
the GoveInorship. Now Sherman says
the ungrateful Foster was a leader in
the plot to sacrifice him, and, though
his pet banks and the corporations gem
eraliy were aching for his nomination,
he was defeated by treachery; sold out
by his friends, and put off with the
promise of being kept in the cabinet as
Secretary of the Treasury if Garfield is
elected.
This is heart-rending tale, but as it
Ia told by ''Gath," stalwart Repub-
hcan, as coming direct from Sherman,
it is probably true. Of course, every
Eainer in the State of Nevada, whose
bullion has to lie sold at discount of
from ten to sixteen per cent. on it's as
say value because Sherman, who has
the interests of the bondholders and
money kings at heart. will shed fears