Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-18

'he great legislators and scholars in our
public life, and he made fatal error in
giving Rlaine the senior eabine t
position. He was captivating.
and Garfield became the captive.
Blaine had his way too much,
and broke the hopes we might have expect
ed to come from a president of Garfeld's
attainments. did not vote for Garfield,
Ny confidence in the party was gone be-
fore he ran"
The president of the bank came in while
we were talking and contrived to ask
about the financial condition of northeast
ern Ohio.
There is stringency of money" was
the answer, sand hereabout it comes from
the fatality of farmers, who expect to get
higher prices for their grain and are hold
ing it instead of receiving the money and
letting it come out in the local business
of the towns. They go by some instinct
or superstition instead of by
general information and hence they will
come into the towns and buy pair of
boots on credit, while their bins and barns
money upon their notes to meet their own
debts in the cities, and as the stringency
becomes more general, so does the price
of grain fall, money being worth more
than wheat. The artificial disturbances in
the prices of cereals, and produce effected
by the spectators at New York and Chica-
go also daze the farmers, and tend to make
them of speculative and waiting turn.
This is the cause of the only material in
jury to business, the crops being held back,
In every other respect we are doing WE'LL
The factories. the great horse market here,
everything else is healthy
A prominent citizens told me at Mans
field that John Sherman's wealth was ex-
aggerated. Il do not believe" he said,
''that Sherman is worth above 100000.
He has two farms near Mansfield, one be-
ing his wife's, and he now stays here only
part of the summer" At this point Gen.
Bunkerhoff said: SHERMAN came to this
town of Mansfield to practice law, and in
1856 he was nominated for congress on
what seemed a forlorn hope, but the know
nothing movement, which was a sort of
half way house to the Republican party,
had depleted the Democracy so that Sher-
man was elected as whig. He was i'm
mediately fortunate in getting on the COM
mittee to investigate the border rufian
outrages in Kansas, because the other
members of the committee were inefficient.
and Sherman showed considerable pluck
and courage there. He took with him
distinguished stenOgrapher from Washing
ton named Lord, who wrote the report for
Sherman coming back, and issued it in
the latter's name. He gave him wide pub
icity. Then he was an untiring worker,
and as politician he is one of the most
thorough-going we have. His greatest
mistake was using President Hayes ad-
ministration to elect himself president,
by which he did neither Hayes nor himself
any good. If he had waited till the pres
ent year there might have arisen call for
him, not liable now to be made''
Suppose you do not nominate Mr..
Hoadley for governor, who will be your
mani"
"Our congressman, Judge Geddes,o of this
town, if he could be got to accept, would
make proper candidate. He is one of
the best men in congress. We shall have
fine Democratic delegation from Ohio in
the next congress. The Cincinnati mem
bers are both credit to the city and state.
That Follett family is one of the most ca
pable in the state, There are several
brothers, all strong men,"