Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-04
sHERMAA AMI HAMPTON.

There is evidently more back of the
Hampton Sherman barber shop difficulty
than appears on the surface. That Kirk,
an obscure and poorly paid clerk should
be called to an account by the secretary
of the treasury, for writing gossippy
and lying letter about Senator Hampton
to a Charleston newspaper, when
it Is notorious that half the
office holders in Washington are
engaged openly in the same business, is
80 suggestive of job in the rear as to
leave but little room for doubt on that
point.
The fact Is, Arthur has never forgotten
the kick John Sherman gave him and
which landed him out of the public SER
vice in disgrace, and there is every
reason to believe that the
disclosures made in regard to Sherman's
corrupt administration of the treasury
department, were inspired by White
House influences. There is no doubt
that Sherman's political and official
record is of the most foul and corrupt
character, and there is just as little
doubt that President Arthur under
stands this and feels fully equal
to the task of presenting that record to
the public in such compact and con-
vincing form as will leave no room for
public doubt as to Sherman's guilt or the
means by which he has been brought to
justice.
Half starved placemen and dependents
Ike Kirk, who is in all probability
the notorious Kirk of Holden's
Carolina militla-are not likely to incur
the opposition or hostility of such men
as Sherman, unless backed by assurances
from those high in authority that their
bread is safe and will be buttered on the
right side. Patriotism and high sense
of honor are as foreign to the natures of
such political tools and fawning
sycophants as it is possible to
conceive right to be incompatible with
wrong. When they pray it Is always as
Horace Greeley said, with an "e;;" and,
like the kite, where they hover can gen.
orally be found the carrion and foul odors
of political corruption and death. No
living man understands better than
President Arthur that he was removed
and disgraced by Sherman in
order to further the political
interests of the latter and of machine
politicians generally; and no man was
ever more determined and fixed in pur-
pose than he is that Sherman shall, now
that the tables have been turned, feel the
power of the same machine and the hor-
rors OF the stalwart political rack.
There will be no lack of Kinks as long
as there IS no lack of money and the de-
mand lasts. Sherman fully understands
that the storm now raging around his
head set in from ''the other end of the
avenue" and it is now an open secret
that he has been brought to bay by the
President, and has concluded to fight.
The contest will be between President
welding the immense patronage
Of the government and one man; but that
man will be the representative of the
worst political elements of the country,
and as such will be no mean antagonist
for even President. 1t is by no means
certain that Sherman's knowledge of
public men and of the workings of
the government for the last
twenty years will not make him
a.stronger man in Republican senate
than the president backed by the patron
age of the government. There is patron
age and power for Republican statesmen