Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-26

whom such an accusation could come
with worse grace than from the lips of
the treasury fattened official who ut
tered it. John Sherman's whole life
has been one of persistent office seek
ing and Office holding, and no man
has had so long and succulent a pull
at the public teat. He emerged from
the obscurity of country lawyers
Office to steadily and patiently fill
every conceivable station in the civil
service until to-day we find him at the
head of the fiscal concerns of the
greatest Empire on the face of the
known globe. From the grinding
poverty of the briehess attorney he
has, at the public expense, reached a
degree of opulence and wealth which
more scrupulous public men never
dreamed of honestly attaining. And
yet this man, gorged with the good
things he has gathered from the table
of the people while occupying lucra-
tive positions, far removed from posi-
BILE danger or trying ordeals, audaci-
ously filings this brazen insult in the
teeth of the brave soldier who has
periled his life upon score of battle
fields, facing innumerable dangers and
undergoing hardships of which John
Sherman never dreamed, as he drew
magnificent salaries as civil servant
of the government. He seems to have
forgotten that his own brother, like
wise a soldier and now the official
head of the army, and the recipient
of the second largest salary paid to
any official in either the military or
civil service, was also educated and
fed at the public expense" That he
likewise has spent the greater por-
ton of his life in the service of the
United States government, and has
been bountifully rewarded at the
hands of the people. Secretary Sher-
man has another brother who long
occupied official station, and would
yet, in all probability, be wearing the
judicial ermine had he not forgotten
the historic example of Francis Bacon
and learned, when it was too late, that
the Judge who listens to the voice of
the tempter and gazes upon the allur-
ing gold of the bribe giver, can have
no place save that which he earns in
the time-softened memories of men.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad, and surely disap-
pointed ambition and wrath nursed
until it has become a consuming fire,
have overthrown the otherwise we'll
balanced brain of the great Secretary,
who, by his i'll tempered speech,
has invoked the destruction which
surely awaits his candidate in the mel.
ancholy days of November. The Peo'
pie of the United States will then
strike a balance sheet. They will
charge General Hancock with all he
has received at their hands and will
give him due credit for the forty-one
years he has spent in their service
There will be entries on that sheet
which will tell of Molino Del Rey,
Cherebusco and gallant deeds under
Mexico's tropical sun, and there will
also be mention of Williamsburg, An
tietam, Reams Station and Gettysburg,
The balance will be so large against
the people that, true to their honest
instincts in favor of paying all their
honest Indebtedness to the uttermost
farthing, they will elect Hancock
President of the United States and
ask him to square the books.
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