The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-31
SENATOR SHERMAN.

dows this afternoon, at Senator Sherman's
country home on the outskirts Of Mansfield.
The Senator sat in his library. A sense of
duty had drawn him there. But the letter.
strewn table Jared on nature freshly
attuned to the harmony Of birds and flowers,
and wheelingan armchair to the window. his
eyes took in dreamily a vision of wind
swept lawn and apple trees, in whose prun-
ing he had lately taken supervisory part The
twitterng of birds; the rushing and growing
of pair of shepherd dogs at play; the horses
welcoming their bucket-bearing grooms, and
the soft contact of the gard eners hoe with
unwarmed soil made sweet accompaniment
to his musings. Mr. Baltzley, the private
secretary, awaited, on the front porch, the
Senator pleasure with smiling complacency.
The dreamer's conscience was family
battling his inclinations in the arm
chair the conscience leaping out toward the
table and the inclinations fastening like
roots in the cushion and around the chair
legs. A visitors arrival was bone thrown
to conscience. Let me show you over the
place" the Senator eagerly exclaimed, just
after greetings. and sweeping up with one
hand bunch of papers for Mr.. Baltzley,
with the other he reaches out for capacious
soft hat. Then leading the way out behind
the house. past the white barn, with pleas
ant safutatiou for the coachman and hostler
and kind hand for the glad approach of the
shepherd dogs, he stops at a rustic retreat at
the edge of the knoll within his grounds
Below are strips of upturned soil and
10 30 g
beyond that feed the headwaters of the Scio-
to and the Muskingum Smoke in the low
land to the right betokens the industries of
Mansfield crowdng close to three lines of
steel roadways that give them market The
lower watershed of Lake Erie begins with
blefs far away to the north. The view is all
in front Orchards dense in foliage make
walls of green at the sides and the ground
slopes upward to the house behind.
The Senator is just now above all things a
farmer. He loves to sit on the front porch
and watch the lawn move rafting among
the trees, fifty yards beyond; to ask after the
grapes in his garden; to linger over the
strawberry bed, white with blossom and to
comniserate with the stalks of asparagus over
their timid and sicky BIRTH and then to the
lookout on the knoll where he can see the
cloud shadows at play on the distant hill
sides and close his hands over shrub BIOS
SONS, purple and sweet with the fragrance
out here" he said," ut is great relief to
escape for little while the drudgery and
annoyances of public life. For five or six
years have neglected this spot. 1t needs
freshening up. But am very fond of it. 1t has
been my home for twenty of the forty years
since moved into this section of the State.
Mansfield is located on what is called the
backbone of Ohio We are 900 feet above
the sea. The weather never leaves us with
out breeze although the sun in summer
time is not idle"
You do not literally overlook Columbus
dor ' Wv" 'N' 10 ~ '' "
''Oh, no."
But you will visit there2"
"At convention time? Yes, ! expect to. /
shall naturally be interested in watching pro-
ceedings."
Does your information lead you to look
for Judge Foraker's nomination.
'"That seems to be the drift OF feeling"
Speaker Hodge says they talk in Cleve-
land of urging the candidacy of State Treas
urer Turney for the second place on the
ticket?7
''rhe two names would be very strong
with either one on either place. Mr.. Turney
could not take the stump, but he would
bring to the ticket support from populous
and influential class, class whose votes
either party would be proud to have-the
WoFklngmen. That Will be our aim, to nom
mate strong ticket, and having a good
cause there need be no fear of the result"
THE SCOTT LIQUOR LAW.
How do you suppose the operation of the
Supreme Court sustain it?'
Its operation must be beneficial. 1t will
close two-thrds of the saloons in the State
We must expect dissatisfaction in the cities
but the great body of the people favor tenn
perance measures. They know that this
law must conduce to moral good
Then the interests which were
antagQnistic to the Republican position last
year cannot summon their former strength
They have no cause now except a selfish one,
while our position cannot be assailed on any
such ground. The winters legislation was
intended for the moral welfare of the State,
and will be so recognized. l feel very sure
that the majority of voters will not hesitate
between side whose victory would encour-
age and give free rein to those engaged in
this traffic and our side, which aims at re-
strction and temperance. The ISSUE | have
no doubt, will draw out full Republican
vote. The vote last year was very light"
Had you noticed that it was heavier by
5000 than the poll of 1SS1T'
Yes but in 1881 there was no canvass
worth speaking of. The Democrats were
hampered by weak candidate Garfed's
illness and death added to their disincina-
ton to make fight Not more than three
or four important speeches were made in the
campaign. The first one, l think, was made
by me, and by an unfortunate coincidence
on the very night that Garfield died"
do you think the vote will equal that of
the Foster-Ewing campaign, when it was over
670,0002"
Perhaps so. That was q very full vote for
State election, although at the general cleo
ton in 1880 there were cast $4,000 votes more;
but party zeal ran high in the election of 1879,
and both sides brought out unusual strength
for State election"
Have you tried to analyze last years vote
with view to locating Republican detection
and apathyP'
THAT would be difficult. although to the
10000 Democratic majority Cincinnati con-