The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-03
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN.
He Opens the Ohio Campaign
in a Ringing Speech at
Mt. Gilead-
The Work of the Republican Party as
Compared with That of the
Opposition.
Democratic Pretenses OF Reform Shown
TO Be q Sham Since Cleveland
Came In.


was the opening speech of the campaign.
Mr.. Sherman spoke as follows:
Fellow Citizens: IL il a long time since had
the pleasure OF addressing the Republicans or
Morrow County. but have not forgotten. nor
will / ever forget, the great obligations am
under TO them for their friendship and partiali-
ty when. more than thirty years ago. nrst APP
peared before them as a candidate Tor congress
Those were important and stirring times.
The Republican party was then formed ns an
active and effective organization 10 resist Inc
extension Of slavery. Many of the actors In
those scenes have passed away. and now new
generation, the sons and even the grandsons OF
the old Republicans OF MorrOw 11%n ayd ad
vancing the work OF the Republican party
You need not be ashamed OF the record OF
that party. Our adversaties now concede the
wisdom and success OF all prominent Repubh-
can measures, rs well "a the merits or the great
leaders Of the Republican party only Few
days since heard nv colleague, Senator Payne,
in addressing old soldiers at Fremont extol
Lincoln and Grant in the highest terms OF
praise and say the war was worth all IL COST
and he thanked God that slavery had been abol,
ished. Only recently, when the great procession
conveyed the mortal remains OF Grant to their
restine-plsce heard active Confederates extoi
him in the highest terms of praise and some or
them frankly gloried in the success OF Repubii.
can measures. and especially in the abolition OF
slavery.
IL may be unkind, but 1t is natural. for rs to
recall what these same men said OF Lincoln and
Grant and the war. and THE abolition OF slavery
within thirty years past The Republican party
was black abolition party" Lincoln was an
sane" Grant WAS a butcher" and Union SOL
oilers were Lincoln hirelinss." The war was the
sum OF all crimes Yet these same men now
seek TO hide their oppcsi ion 10 the war ana
their abuse of Lincoln and Grant by fulseme
enlogy and praise. Surely party that within
six years from it, organization overthrow the
powerful dominant Democratic party, and Tor
twenty-four years afterward conducted the
operations OF great government. In peace and
in war, with such success as to win the support
and acquiescence even OF Its enemies. can iarly
claim to lie worthy Of the confidence and sup
port OF the great body OF the People.
Yet, strange 70 say, hy the detection of q COM
paratively few men in three Republican States,
our old adveysaries have been raised TO power
again in the National Government
Some of the very men who boastfully threat
ened TO break mp 1he Union, and with the cath
OF office in support OF the Constitution fresh
upon their lips conspired and confederated 10
overthrow 1t, waged war against 1t. and were
the OF the loss of half a million OF lives
been placed I'm high office again, in the very
seats of power which they abandoned with
scorn and defiance. Two members or the Con-
federate Congress and one man who sympa-
thized with them are at the head of crest de-
partments Of the Government saw the Union
flag at ha'f-m floating over the Interior De-
partment in sign OF honor and mourning Tor
the death of Jacob Thompson, whom we re-
Rarded "a defaulter and a conspirator. This
country is now represented abroad by men who
within twenty five years were in arms TO over
throw IL, and the governing power In the Ex-
ecutive ranch of the Government is in sympa-
thy with the ideas Of aud selects the chief OFF,
GERS of the Government from, the men who were
In against it. This strange turn in events has
but one example In history, and that was the
restoration of Charles H. after the brilliant but
brief .Protector,te OF Cromwell, and. like that
restoration, Is u reproaoh to the civilfzat on OF
the are.
Why was this? What measure OF Republican
policy is condemned What measure OF good
policy is proposed or advocated by our adverse
r1es that would not be better accomplished by
the Republican party2 What hope or aspii alton
of good government can the mugwumps of the
East expect to accomplish by Democratic sue
cess2 We were told that the Republican party
had been in power for tventy-four years, that
great frauds bad been committed, that they
wished to examine the books, that they wished
to clean out the "Augean stable, that bad nom
nations had been made and that the Repubn-
can party did not execute in good faith the civil
service law. Upon pretexts like these the cleo
tOral votes OF three or four Northern States, add
ed TO the solid South, secured the election of
Mr.. Cleveland.
Let us examine these pretenses. They have
find every dollar OF public money on hand or ac-
counted for. 1t was feared Tor while that there
was deficiency OF two cents in the count. but
the floor by the counters, so that the money Is
all on hand. The -Augean stable" is now found
by our adversaries TO be the most perfect piece
OF administrative machinery in the world, for j
venture TO cay that in no Government In our own
or any country, or in any time, are the re-
ceipts and disbursements OF the Government so
faithfully and honestly accounted for as in the
Treasury of the United States. The "Augean
stable was cleanly swept and kept by the Re-
nation by Manning and Jordan and other New
York Democrats. they do not find speck or
placed in their hands by the folly of the Amer
lean people. They find 1t the best conducted
business workshop in the world.
The civil-service law. measure adopted by
the Republican party. aided by few Demo
Gratis, was being gradually put in forco by the
Republican parry. and now is the only restraint
against the wholesale removal OF worthy Off
GERS by Democratic administration They
commenced the cry of turn the rascals out.
They found none, but they did find offensive
partisans, and turned them out and put ras-
Gals In.
/ acknowledge the good intentions of Mr..
Cleveland, but he knows as well as do that
the hungry and thirsty crowd who are bowling
for the removal OF every Republican office
holder must in short time prevail. aud all pre-
tense OF the observance of the law will be aban-
doned Every Republican now in office is an
offensive partisan" and the most noisy and
blatant OF partisan Democrats Will be the cho-
sen candidates for all Offices, from the smallest
Postmaster of the Nasty school to. the rebel
Generals who represent us in foreign lands.
We must admit, fellow citizens, that we were
not beaten by the Democrats, but by the dis
gruntied Republicans of three important
States, who opposed the nominee OF the Re
publican party, and, in the great State of New
York. by narrow majority of but little more
than thousand, defeated Blaine and Logan.
IL was not toe want of merit In these two great
leaders of our party, but the disappointment,
personal contests and controversies incident to
long lease OF power
But even this detection s.ac-- Republicans
South. held together in political fellowship by
crimes, violence, and fraud which. IL continued,
win as surely renew all the strifes OF the civil
war as that the sun rolls around in Its course.
The Republican party certainly liberal
and Just TO the rebels lately in arms against the
country We sprived them of no political pow
er; no blood was shed: no conhscaton was had
and more generous terms were conceded to
them than ever before had been extended TO an
unsuccessful party In civil war Their leaders
emphasized that at the burial of our great COM
mander Gen. Grant. The result OF the SETTLE
ment by the constitutional amendments at the
close or the war WAS to give them increased po-
litlcal power upon condition that the slavt 3
should be free and should be allowed to vote
and that an political distinctions growing out
of race, color. or previous condition OF seryi-
tude should be abolished; and yet to-day, the
Republican party is faced by a solid South,
I'm which the negro il deprived, substan-
TALLY. of all his political rights by open viU-
lencc by frauds as mean as any that
have been computed by penitentiary
convicts. and as openly and boldly doae as any
highway robbery. BY this system and by the
acquiercence of a few Northern States, the men
who led I'm the civil war have been resto ed 10
power. and hope. practically. to reverse all the
results OF the war. This Is the specter that now
haunts American politics. aud may make il Just
a. vital and necessary TO appeal 10 the Northern
States TO unite again against this evil, not so
omen and arrogant as slavery but more danger
Gus and equally unjust he question then was
the slavery of the black man. Vow the ques-
tion is the equality OF the whlte man: whether
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