The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-04
4 REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLICAN.

A REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLICAN,.
The New York Sun in late issue pub
fishes a well-written sketch OF John Sher-
man. When such representative Republi-
cans as ex-Senators Dorsey and Kellogg are
dragged 10 the bar of justice the people have
q right to believe that John Sherman Will,
in due time, share their fate. The Sun re-
fers to John Sherman's career as exception
ally prosperous" John Sherman entered
Congress in 1855, when thirty-two years OF
age, "a poor. briefess lawyer" Since that
time he has pursued politics as profession,
and while receiving salaries as member
of Congress varying from So day
to $1,000 and 5000 year, and
four years Secretary of the Treasury, at SIS, 600
per annunl," Mr.. Sherman has managed,
not only to support his family, but to amass
a fortune which places him in the list of the
millionaires of the land. During the past
twenty-eight years." says the Sun, "Mr.
Sherman was engaged in no business call
ing, and had no practice as a lawyer that
yielded any material addition to his in
come. His wealth, therefore, necessarily
accrued from politics, and from the advant-
ages of his position in Congress as Chairman
of the Ways and Means in the House, and
of Finance in the Senate, when his next
friend, Jay Cooke, got control OF the public
loans The exact history of these riches can
not be known, because all the parties con-
nected with them are interested in conceal
ment" There is not, in all probability, a
man in the country who has
ever given the subject a moments
thought at all in doubt as
ID John Shermans rascality. After Hayes
was falsely counted in" John Sherman
formed the Administration" and ''put
himself at the head of the Treasury. where,
by raising his finger or by giving friendly
wink in Wall street, he could convertworth-
less scrip into solid gold. The First National
Bank OF New York passed Immediately out
of the hands of Its owners into those of the
peculiar associates of the Secretary at 100
per cent. premium on the stock. The CAPT
tai of this bank was $500, 0O0 but, backed by
the good will OF John Sherman, it held at
one time nearly 5000, 600 of loans with
out security, and it negotiated about $780,
900, 600 under the conversion acts. 1t would
be interesting to know who were the real
purchasers of the bank before these favors
were showered upon it, and who must have
known the fortune that was in reserve
for them when, to secure the original
stock, they paid twice its value" Sufficient
facts have been brought to the surface
to satisfy honest men of all parties that
John Sherman, while Secretary of the
Treasury, pursued the course not only of
craftsman but of sneakthiet as well. He
had ability and nerve, and for cool, calcu.
lating scoundrelism has few, if any. equals
il or out of the Penitentiary. His part in
the great fraud, whereby Hayes, after pub
lie confession of his defeat, was put into the
White House. has" says the Sun, ''passed
into history. He organized personally the
infamous conspiracy by which the vote
OF Louisiana was stolen outright, hav-
ing Garfield, Stanley Matthews and
other Ohiomen for his aids in that foul work.
William K. Chandler, who had set the ball
in motion with the lying dispatch claiming
Hayes election after Tilden had been
chosen, was posted in Florida to organize
the conspiracy to steal that State, with In
dex Noyes, Star Route Brady, and other
Ohio men on his staff" Here, then, is
Republican boss, creature
stepped in perfdy, who has grown rich by
methods which should long since have sent
him to Prison, still in the United States
Senate and aspiring to be President of the
Republic. When such men as John Sher-
man are talked of for President, the party
that owns them should be retired.