The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-04-02

| TlClOuS qualities, there was nothing
| If them. They have won transient
uccesses and have disappeared and
jeen forgotten. How much greater
md more worthy is the man, who,
ried for more than thirty years i'm
The furnace of party contentious, sus
aing his good name, his influence
and his position, by the sheer force
! Jt his genius and the strength Of his
integrity, and that in despite of the
alleged lack Of that personal tinsel
which allures and dazzels the multi
tude? Is it not a credit to the
american people, thatwhen it comes
% the test, they always discriminate
dispassiOnately between these solid
! qualities and their unsub5tantial OPP
posites, and that they prefer the sub
stance TO the shadow?
But we must have a magnetic lead.
er. True, we must have a leader
who captivitates and holds the conf
| dence Of the people, and such a lead
er, pre-eminently, is Senator Sher-
man. 1t was this sort Of leadership
that characterized General Grant
and Governor Hayes. No two pub
ic men are more destitute of the
quality known as personal magnetism
than they are. 1t was not personal
magnetism that elected Garfield, he
had it in some degree, though in no
! great degree; but what elected him
was the conviction, aroused and
deepened by the Maine election,
that the business and financial inter
ests Of the country could not safely
be entrusted to the Democratic party
General Garfield had been long and
COnspiCuously known as an able adj
! vOCate of sound financial principles,
and this attracted to him the conf
dence and support Of the alarmed in
! dustries, and the endangered COM
merCial, financial and industrial in
! terestS of the whole country. But
Senator Sherman has been something
more in this respect than Garfield ev-
er had the opportunity to be.
Where Garfield was a brilliant and
useful advocate, Sherman was an &C
tor. Out Of financial confusion and
depreciation he brought order and
safety, and his achievements, in this
respect, amidst tremendous difficult
ties, Commanded the admiration of
the civilized world. We challenge
history to show anything more bril-
liant in the way Of financial achieve
ment
This is not personal magnetism, it
is craftsmanship; it is not eloquence,
it is action. 1t is one thing to make
great speeches, and another thing TO
perform great deeds; one thing to in.
spire and entertain the listening mul-
titude and another, contending with
prejudice and feeling, to restore con
hdence in the nations credit, and
save hundreds of millions to the ma
TONS taxpayers.
When Secretary Sherman proposed
to place a four per cent. loan, bank
ers and inanCiers all over the world
said, the scheme is visionary; it can
not be done. When Sherman pro
posed to resume specie payments,
the whole Democratic press, and, un-
fortunately, part of the Republican
press, hOOted at the idea and said,
no, it cannot and must not be done.
it will ruin the "debtOr class" and de-
strOy the business of the country. 1t
was done, and the country immedi-
ately became more prosperous and
more powerful than it had ever be-
fore been.
As Senator of the United States
and chairman of the most important
committee in the highest deIiberative
body in the world. who has won
more distinction, both for himself
and for his State, than Senator Sher-
man? Whose name has been identi-
fed with moro, if so many, measures
of great practical and national i'm
pOrtanCe? The writer of this is op-
posed, as a rule, to the selection OF
candidates for executive positions
from Legislative bodies. Legislative
duties and executive duties are wide
ly different, but it should be remem-
bered that Senator Sherman's great
est fame has been won in executive
service. He has proven, by great
and memorable tests, that he has the
executive faculty, and his possession
of it was recognized at the very out
set Of his congressional life by his Sc