The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
special Correspondence of the REersrEn

Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, who
is much more of a candidate for the Chi
cago nOminstio than is his brother
Tecumseh, is of the opinion that Ohio
will be carried for the Republicans
this fall as easy as rolling off a log, if
only the right man be put forward.
What mental reservation or secret eva
sion possessed Mr.. Sherman in MAX
ing this conditional prediction can best
be conjectured by the logic of events
that accompanied Mr.. Sherman's can
didacy four years ago. He said then
as he says now, that ian enthusiastic
and united party was of more conse-
quence and more to be desired than
the working out of any mans ambi-
ton, be he never SO popular or were he
decked with the garb of unquestioned
availability" The slyness with which
Mr.. Sherman has always manipulated
our machine politics, is manifesting it
self now when he says that, "believing
that the convention when it meets
should be free, uninstructed, and in
shape to do the very best thing for the
whole party. I have counseled my
friends to that end, and 1 do not find
that condition of things to justify my
being candidate that I found four
years ago." Putting this and that to-
gether then, we are to assume that
Mr.. Sherman's candidacy can be relied
upon in an emergency, which emer-
gency he and his friends fondly hope
may overtake the Chicago convention
before any body else rakes the pool.
England having pulled our nose and
cuffed our ears in the O'Donnell bust
ness, Chilli was emboldened to do the
same thing when we protested against
the unwarranted imprisonment of half
a dozen American citizens in that God
country. Both Of these gross
insults we rocketed, as matter of
course, and SO here comes Turkey, a
nation so poor that it picks its living
from the swill-barrels of semi civil
cation that lives and dies from opium
eating, and slaps our face with the
same complacency that has character
lied the impudent assaults of the 9TH
ers. The cause of the Turkish dis
arises from our protest
against the exactions of the Sublime
Porte in levying an eXorbitant duty
upon our petroleum in the face of the
treaty upon that subject. If we were
sure that our navy would not go to the
bottom before it could reach the Orient,
aud if we could be guaranteed that it
would not be blown out Of water should
it get there by the two war ships that
Turkey purchased of us years ago, it
would not lie bad idea for the Ameri-
can Government to resent this last in
suit, and show to the other nations
abroad that it will not allow sick
man to knock a chip from its shout
der, whatever it may take from mus
cular chaps like John Bull.
The grave, reverend, and dignified
body. the United States Senate, spent
an hour i'm secret session with closed
doors on Monday afternoon. The mat
ter under discussion was not the ratifi-
cation of a treaty with some great and
powerful nation, nor was it to discuss
some solemn question affecting the
relations with foreign pow
ers, nor was it to confirm the appoint
ments of ministers plenipotentiary and
ENJOYS extraordinary to the Kingdoms
and empires of the old world, but it
was to discuss the resolution offered
by Senator declaring that four of the
pages upon the Senate floor were
bounced by the Sergeant-at-Arms |
proper cause! OF course this |
proceeding will shock the moral sense
Of that portion of the community who
think that the mission of the Senate is
above and beyond this sort of thing,
but did not Mr.. Flanagan, of Texas,
ask what we were here for, if it
were not the offices? Indeed if there |
3 anything that will stir the Govern
nent to its foundations with more ia
,ility than an attempted expulsion
~ Of hn i'm
barnacles, I have not yet |
earned what it is. The fellows are to |
The manners born, as it were, and we |
,an no more get rid of them than we |
IAN shake off the Indian contractor or |
The man with the French spoliation
claim.
The debate in the Senate upon Mr..
Blair's Educational bill has brought |
,ut some of the old-time discussions
lpon the status of the negro as an ele-
nent in our political economy. In con-
,ection with this phase of the question
" the iIliteracy of the South, its dis
,ussion developed the fact that while
he percentage of illiteracy among the
whole population was very large in
$50, that of the whites alone reached
bout % per cent, so that the money
to be appropriated was to be
distributed in as large proportion for
heir benefit as for that of the negroes.
t is doubtful if the bill can be passed
It this session, if at all, because of the
intense prejudice that exists among
many Senators, both Northern and