Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-17
sHERMAN,S REPLY TO HEN.
BRICKS.

sHERMAN's REPLY TO HEN.
BRICKS.
The Chicago Times-it wishes to the
contrary Notwithstanding compelled
to say this in regard to Sherman's reply
to Hendricks speech
"Mr. Hendricks pointed out, what
neither Mr.. Sherman nor Mr.. Garfield can
deny, that Garfield, after declaring openly
and explicitly in Congress that the Elec-
toral Commission bill gave the right to the
commission to go behind the returns, ito
open every ballot-box, to examine every
ballot cast by seven million of Americans
voted repeatedly in the tribunal that the
commission should not investigate, should
not go behind the returns, and that the
Kellogg certificate was stronger than Con
gress, and stronger than the law. Mr..
Hendricks proved conclusiyely that with
Gen. Garfield political interests and pas
sions and prejudices are stronger than con-
science; that for his party, and for the
profit that might come to him from his
party, Gen. Garfield would stultify his rec
ord and do violence to his own best judg-
ment. Il II n Secretary Sherman knew
that testimony Of any sort could be OBJ
tanned by the ton in Louisiana, and that it
could be taken and arranged to suit any
case. He proposed to take advantage for
the benefit Of his party of this peculiar
abundance and elasticity of Louisiana evil
dence. Mr.. Sherman managed the a
action himself, but he could not attend to
all the details. Able lawyers, who were
also trustworthy partisans, were needed to
take and arrange or manipulate the tes-
timony. Gen. Garfield was just the man
for such work, and he sat in an inner room
taking and arranging testimony for three
weeks. How we'll he performed his work
everybody knows. The end crowned it at
any rate. Mr.. Sherman, in effect, takes
this view Of the whole affair, and his speech
is a virtual admission of the truth of all Mr..
Hendricks alleged against Gen.. Garfield.
He does not even attempt to reply to the
most serious part of the allegation
namely, that Garfield. after taking and
arranging the testimony in Louisiana, af-
forwards sat on the Electoral Commission,
and voted to accept the Kellogg boards re-
turns, when he himself well knew that the
testimony upon which that return was
based was 'doctored' and manipulated.
The charge was not 80 much that Garfield
had assisted in manipulating the evidence
as that, after SO manipulating the evidence,
he accepted aplace OF the Electoral Com
mission, when be should have been ex-
cluded by universal law. This part Of the
charge Mr.. Sherman has not seen fit to re-
ply to-"
In other and fewer words, Hendricks
fixed his charges upon Garfield SO firmly
Sherman's utmost efforts cannot
move them. The Republican candidate,
kboraforo o+and. oo,r.o@oJ b.fo~o A.
country and the world of indorsing as an
Electoral Commissioner the fraud he had
to perpetrate as a visiting states
man." and that, too, when he had de-
in Congress, that the bill estab-
the commission "gave the right to
open every ballot-box and examine every
ballot cast by seven millions Of Ameri-
cans, > and had taken a solemn oath to
a impartial judgment in accord
with the Constitution and the laws.
WHENEVER any voter in these United
States uses . pinch of salt or buys a news
paper or a book, let him remember the
vote which General Garfield gave on the
l4th of May last against a resolution
THAT the Committee of Ways and Means
be instructed to report a bill to this
House providing for the free Importation
of salt and printing paper" General
Garfield knew very well that the exist
ing duties on those commodities are
for the pecuniary benefit of a
wealthy corporations and a dozen
rich manufacturers alone. His vote was
as it has invariably been given, in
Of the monopolists and in harmony
the golden currents of the lobby.
Who can doubt that the pr~oclivities
which instigated that vote. as they did
his 1929 worth of transactions with Cakes
Ames, and his S.. 600 fee in the De Col
yer matter, and his stock-jobbing in the
Cleveland and Mahoning Railway bill,
and his class votes against all laborers ex-
cept colored men, would govern the ac-
tion Of General Garfield as President !!
An Illinois paper says: The Demo.
Gratis in Illinois appear to be making
about the hvilest campaign they have en-
gagged in for many years. They are en-
outraged by the strength and popularity
II both the State and National tickets,
md by evidences of Republican luke
and dissension. They feel
hat the election Of Gen. Hancock is al.
most certain, and that the success Of the
ticket in Illinois is not only
but daily becoming more prob
bile.
AN Eastern paper says: In the bet
ing market Garfield continues to rule
cry weak. and at the sporting exchanges
o New York is only handled at a dis
cunt. ranging all the way from 20 to 80
er cent. Hancock has gone readily at a
remium from the day that he was nomi.
Iated, and the best evidence that his
Dom has not subsidized is to be found in
be fact that betting men still give the
dds on him quite as willingly as ever.
THE 6imsy disguise thrown over Gar
eld's stumping tour will not conceal the
al facts from anybody that he has gone
into the campaign to blow his
wn horn. County fairs and soldiers re-
mons give him just as good an oppor-
nifty to spout politics as an out-and-out
~ass-meeting with the regular political