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

The time has come when it is
| proper and necessary for the people
to consider whom they will elect a.
their candidate for President and
Vice President Especially is thi
true in our own State, which again,
as in the last two elections, holds the
key to the situation. This may be
due in part, to the fact that Ohio il
the only remaining October State, %
but it is still more due to the inau.
ence which her people and her states.
men have achieved in National af-
fairs. The commanding position
which Ohio thus occupies, it is both
her duty and her privilege to i'm
prove. The Democrats are recogni-
zing this fact and why should not
the Republicans?
Early in 1876 it became evident
that an acceptable candidate for the
Presidency supported with earnest
ness and unanimity by Ohio, would
receive the Republican nomination.
The Ohio delegation presented Gov
ernor Hayes, and although it sup
ported him with only moderate zeal,
he was nominated. The situation in
the party is even more favorable to
an Ohio nomination now than it was
then. The National Convention of
1880 conceded the Presidency to
Ohio, and the concession was ratified
with signal emphasis at the polls.
Assassination thwarted the Nation S
verdict, but the people of the United
States have never recalled it, and
they are even more ready than they
were four or eight years ago to be-
stow like partiality upon our State.
The Republican nomination was far
more vigorously contested in 1916,
and aIso in 1880, than it is at all like
ly to be in 1884. In the last two
contests many Republican statesmen
of national reputation and influence
were seeking the leadership of their
party and the Presidential office; now
the party is seeking a leader, and the
office a suitable man to fill il. Can
Ohio satisfy the requirements of the
occasion ? Certainly her own peo-
pie ought not to doubt that she can,
when the people of other States are so
extensively recognizing her ability to
meet the demands of the hour.
Already public attention, in all
parts of the land, has been greatly
drawn to one name-a name that
has been illustriOus in the politics of
Ohio and the Nation for the last
thirty years. That name is John
Sherman. Prudent, resolute, great,
Senator Sherman has stood among
the foremost in the political contests
of a generation. Helping to create
his party, guiding it, and at the same
time acting faithfully with it, du-
ring this long period, no public man
has been or is a better embodiment
of its principles and policy than he
is. Stainless, alike in his private and
in public character, and transcend
ent in wisdom and ability, he poss-
esses the respect and confidence of
the whole people, and not citizen
can be found of whatever political
belief, who, with fair knowledge of
the man, does not instinctively feel
that, in hands so able and so exper-
fenced, the Nations interests are
safe.
Especially is this true of the bust
ness and financial interests of the
country which in the purely politi-
cal aspects Of the canvass, are sure
to be of paramount importance.
What is most necessary in Govern
ment to the Nations prosperity now,
is tranquility, justice, financial stabil-
ity and, in short, a continuance of
Republican policy. The nomination
of Senator Sherman would, in itself,
be an assurance Of this better than
any platform could give, and such an
assurance as scarcely any other nom
ination could afford. Itwould mean
that a firm, prudent hand will be
placed at the helm, a hand able and
prompt to deal with the exigencies
of the hour, but creating no artificial
disturbance, and allowing no violent
or disquieting change Of executive
policy. 1t would mean that, if any
great and sudden emergency comes,
whether financial or political, we
shall have a president who is accus-
toned to such emergencies, and who
has on many trying occasions proved
equal to them. 1t would mean,
moreover, that the destnies of the
Nation would be in the hands of a
man whose private, no less than his
public character, would adOrn the
position, and who would represent
the more enlightened sphere of
American Craftsmanship, the better
phases Of American politics, and the
better sense Of the American people.
1t has been said of Sherman that
he is not magnetic. What a frivo
lous ConCeitl A man who has held
the confidence and respect, as Sher-
man has, of the people Of Ohio, and
of the whole country, through a long