Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-09-07
SENATOR SHERMAN.
A Calm, Strong Presentation Of
the Issues I'm This Campaign,
In q Speech Delivered ut Flndlay, Ohio
August s5.
rHr COUNTRY rRosrEns.

lay. Then your county was new; tho farms
we're mere openings, and the native forests COW |
cred the land now cultivated in fields and gar |
dens. | see around me all tho evidences OF
thrift and comfort OF a rich and prosperous
community. Your county is but type of the
whole country. In single generation the
United States has made the most wonderful
progress in human history Thirty years ago
the State of Ohio was almost exclusively an
agricultural State. Your surplus products
were hauled in wagons 10 distant market,
and cold at prices scarcely sufficient TO furnish
YOU money to pay your taxes. Now railroads
carry everything you can produce ana yon re-
ceive in return multitude OF articles that con-
tribute 70 your comfort you hear daily from
nll parts of the world Your labors are light.
ened BY new machinery, by which pair of
horses and q man riding at ease can do the
work formerly done by six men laboriously
toiling from morning to night. Your boys and
girls have advantages that you did not have
School.houses churches, newspapers, books
open up to tho poorest among You the lights
and opportunities OF knowledge.
SOME THINGS SETTLED.
Change and improvement are written upon
rhc face OF everything. And, low-eitizens
the change in Our politics, in the questions that
divide parties and the manner Of treating
rhem, is as marked as in our productions, in
ourfarming, in our locomotion, and in our
upDprtuultlpS OF ln1Orn0TlDn, we nave plSSbti
through great revolutions of opinion, Of
thought: We have settled old problems of poll
tics, and. as think, made great advances in
government and public policy. Thirty years
ago the question was whether this Republic OF
ours was National Government or a Confed-
crate Government. We have settled il for all
time that this is n National Government; that
the people OF the United States compose Ma
rion, strong, powerful and free; that every man
s'ho wars against IT is a traitor. Thirty years
ago the question was whether this was a Gov
eminent OF frsemen, or one composed OF Tree
men and slaves. 1t is now settled that no slave
can breathe the air OF America, and five mil
ions oi people who We're slaves are now free
and every one is in the enjoyment Of the fruits
II his labor, and stranger still, the masters who
touk up arms 10 maintain slavery now thank
God that the slaves are free. Thirty
or forty years ago the people OF this country
we're divided into parties as to whether We
could have o National currency or must de-
pend upon such as might be provided by the
several States, and neither party was able 10
point out way by which we could enjoy the
inestimable blessings nf a sound currency.
We have solved the problem, and now have a
currency good wherever the flag OF COM
Inerce floats, as good rs the best gold coin is
sued from any mint and having impressed
upon it the untarnished credit Of the United
states, Thirty years ago the Government OF
tho United States was regarded among Nations
OF the world MS doubtful experiment whether
it was possible for Nation to endure with no
other bond OF union but the consent OF the
governed. Now no one questions the stability
or power of such Government, tested as ours
mas been ny foreign and domestic wars, and by
angry parry contests. We have marshaled
millions OF men Mt arms and disbanded them
at the call Of duty. We hnyc borne the weight
ot debt, and have resisted the temptation of re-
pudintion. We have in the midst of the heat
ot party contests, when the Nation was
equally divided, submitted our dis
pute to arbitration and abided the result.
The bond OF union grows stronger with time,
by the memories of our success and the in
creasing intelligence of our people. The most
advanced Nations Of Europe are copying our
Institutions, and France for twelve centuries
a monarchy, has followed our example Let
lis not forget In the midst of our party strug-
gle that while we differ from time 10 time upon
Quest 'ol,s rs they arise, yet that after all our
county is advancing in the strength and sta
hili;y of republican institutions rs fully as in
wealth, extent and numbers.
DOING r,rRlor's DUTY.
Fellow-ctizens believe that the existence
Of parties contributes TO the public good.
When J appear in a Republican Convention
and advocate the principles of the Republican
party, l believe | am doing the duty OF n
patriot. | concede the same to my Democratic
friends who stand up manfully for their con-
victions. But do not respect n man who, in
Republic like ours, has no political convic-
tions but growls and whines and lies, and de
nounces all parties ms corrupt, and won't even
vote because he must take his turn az the polls
or may be elbowed by man not
as we'll dressed as he Parties are cs-
sGntial in free government. II is only
by them great questions oi public policy can
be presented to the people and be determined
Nor do dispute that every man may vote as
ne pleases and even throw away his vote for a
third or fourth or fifth party, but in doing so
he is very apt TO defeat the cause he has most
at heart. II in the main the principles and
general conduct of great party meet your ap-
troyal, it Is better to follow with the army on
us march than to waste your influence on some
side issue. IL is because believe the Republi-
can party, from its history and its principles,
can best promote the common good OF all the
people OF the United States that l support it
and have supported it from the date oil its or
ganization What it did before the war and
dnring the war, and since the war has been
lime and ugain approved by the American peo-
pie. Our Democratic fellow-citizens, though
opposing our measures at the time, have since
ncquiesced in, approved and supported them
niter their adoption. They can not now name
single question of party difference Tor twen-
ry-tive years upon which they now will ven
lure to take issue with us. They do not even
put forward their well tried leaders They
have now in succession nominated three
gentlemen for Governor OF Ohio
who each have been warm and
ardent supporters Of the principles of the Re
publican party; ! mean General Ewing, Mr.
Bookwalter and Judge Hoadly. All these dis.
tingnished and able gentlemen have been Re
publican partsans as have, and Judge Hoad
ly has, think, been rather more free in hi.
oenunclaton oil the Democratic party than l.
THEY coScEDE THAT We WERE RIGHT
To the extent, therefore, of acquiescence in the
great issues that have divided us in the pas
the Democratic party comedies that we wer,
right. II they wished to try with US the old
questions OF State rights and National author
Ivy, Of sound money or fat money, of tariff fol
protection or tariff for revenue only, why dc
they not nominate some one committed Il
these doctrines? The Democratic party vii
NOT meet US on tho principles and Tendencies
of the two parties. II is struggle with then
70 catch disaffect ted Republicans. II il is onl,
choice between Republicans, then / prefer Il
support Judge Foraker, who has carried th
Republican banner in war and in peace with
out halting by tho waysde. And it woulC
seem TO me, II the contest Is between Republi
cans, that Democrat who believes that hi
party has been right in all these long years o
contest, would prefer the frank and open op
ponent 10 the new convert in pursuit Of Office
What claim is, that the measures adopted
and the principles maintained by the Repub
hcan party have been approved by the peopl
and acquiesced In by the Democratic party
and that 1t has no Just claim for political pow
er unless II shows that in new issues they ar
right and we arc wrong.
~ QUESTIONS souARBLY NIT.
Now, felow-citzens, what are these ney
qnestionsp Where shall we find them stated
II We look TO the platforms OF the two partie
we will ind in the Republican platform cleai
plain reaffirmation OF the principles and polio
il has adopted and executed for the last tweI
ty-fiye years. IL declares for the maintenance
Of a tariff system that will protect America
producers and labor. il declares first that
approves the Scott Law taxing the sale
spirits, and also approves the submitting
Two temperance amendments 10 the people.
There is no equiyocation, evasion or doubt
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