National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-26
OHIO POLITICS.
EX-GOVERNOR YoUNG,s RAcY TALK.
The Differences Between Foster, Sherman, and
Garfield-That Hotel Bill-WhO Spent the
Money-Tommy Nichol Described
John Shermans Wealth.

"Gath," in an interview in the Gin
cinnai Enquirer, says: Reference being made
to Ohio politics, asked if the differences arising
out of the Chicago Convention between Governor
Foster Senator Sherman, and General Garfield had
been settled.
Substantially" said the Governor. :" under
stand that within few week past Secretary Sher-
man has sent his check to Governor Foster for the
hotel bill, about which so much printed, at the
Pacific Hotel Chicago He is said to have written
in the letter that he did not believe he owed that
bill, but that he would not suffer any doubt upon
the question to remain his mind, and, therefore,
sent his check which, am told, Governor Foster
put in his pocket and accepted the money"
WELL said l. should not Foster have kept the
money if he paid it out for Sherman
Eyes" said Young /" if he had paid 1t out for
Sherman he might have kept it; but he didn't pay
it out for Sherman
"Who did he pay it out for, then?'
"Why, for Garfield"
"You don't mean to say" said l, that Sherman
accuses Governor Foster Of having gone to Chicago
to nominate Garfield over the head of Sherman, II
necessary
NO" said Governor Young; Sherman is too
prudent, too cautious man to say that. But say
it-Tom Ioung says it,"
who spent the money at Chicago"
writing letters, claiming to have been Garfeld's
secretary, &c. Did you ever see that man.? SAID
Young. You put your eyes on him and you won t
trust him. think God Almighty has set his marx
on the countenance as well as on the soul, ana
that countenance would not trust. He Is one OF
these retiring suspicious, doubled little efhgies,
always listening and getting in somewhere De-
lieve he hailed from the Northwest somewhere,
when he rung in as the almoner OF Sherman. Next
l. 1ll,.
that Garfield would like have run him out of the
house, but did not know just how; and he began
to open letters, as he says, from this public man
and that He might have read my letters and
yours, and now he is coming out with articles
stating their contents. L don't take any stock,
said the Governor, in any such man.
"Well, Governor Young, have Foster and Sher-
man been ON cordial terms at any time after the
convention?'
"Oh, yes, on respectable terms. John Sherman
is an excellent man in all the relations of friend,
a husband, and public man. He sticks to his
friends just close as Grant, and he does not pur
sue his enemies He never lets vindictiveness
discolor his own selfrespect nor turn the current
of his life. Some time ago he opposed Mr.. Nc
Clung, since appointed surveyor of Cincinnati, and
beat him for time under Hayes. Then Garfield
came in and appointed him. went up to Gar
field 10 read the riot act, and found that Sherman,
who had always stood up for, had also indOTsed
McClung; so went 10 Shermans house to inquire
into such behavior, and there saw Charley FOs-
ter sitting down with Sherman if nothing had
happened. Nevertheless am told that Sherman
has since sent Foster that money, and that Foster
has kept it,
The question was asked if the stories were not
untrue that Sherman was so rich.
They are said Young. 81 1t is my impression
that John Sherman is worth short of S30DGH."
A bystander asked if Sherman had not been in
terested n the First National Bank during its
money making period, when he was Secretary.
There was not one share of stock there in the
name of Sherman" said Mr.. Young An ex-
aminer was sent to look into the question. You
may go pretty well over the United States in this
or i'll past times and you will find it hard to find
better man than John Sherman. Inside of his
family circle he is as cordial a man as the Lord
ever made, and when you so TO his house you find
no GOODNESS in his nature. But when he goes from
his house to his Office his public trust straightens
him up, and he becomes an iceberg if necessary,
because he has to say no and yes without evasion.
ICu don't find in Ohio any complaints of tight per-
s0nal government, as in some of the other States.
Men iniure Sherman at critical places in his life
and, although the wound goes deep, he does not
give up the remainder of his days to pursue them.
1t that sentiment of his fidelity and real desert
that put him back in the Senate so easily
The Governor further expressed his opinion that
the nomination of Garfield not wholly an ac-
cident, but had been meditated in Ohio. There
was no need TO say this, because l heard Governor
Sheldon say in Washington that he went to the
Chicago convention an original Garfield man.