Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-30
SHERMAN IN VIRGINIA.
THFOHIO sraTEsMAN H accom-
FDi ispLENDfD RECEP nov,
And Delivers u Dispas-ionste Argument
Upon the burning Questions of the uour
Ms speech at the Academy of Music ut
Petersburg Ia-t Night.

'sNs' Nlsh's
,From Morning Fdrtoul
PErERsBuRG Va, Oct. 2o.-Senator Sher-
man spoke here tonight in the Academy OF
Music, to n crowded audience. The stage
was filled with white people, while the body
Of the building and the galleries were oc-
cuped by colored people, the outskirts of the
crowd being friuged with whites
Senator Sherman was introduced by Gen.
Malone as the foremost statesman OF the |
to whose warm heart and love tor
every state in the Union, and for the
whole country, he bore cordial testimony. |
Gen. Malone esteemed it great honor TO |
have the privilege of introducing the ds'n- |
guished senator from Ohio to Virginia |
audience. He came, he said to address the |
reason and no, the prejudices of the people |
he bespoke tor him cordial greeting and
respectful hearing.
Senator sherman was cordially greeted and
accorded n most respectful and attentive hear
ing Senator sherman said, in part
FELLOW CITIZENS | accepted with much
lithienCe the invitation TO speak in the can.
yass in Virginia, chiefly beCause | feared the
public prints might have made false i'm
in the recent canvass in Ohio that was neither
Just to me nor the republicans of that state
| accepted 1t, however, thai might, face to
ftce, show you how unjust is the CIamor
evoked against the republicans OF Ohio--lo
demonstrate to you that what the republican
party professes in Ohio as to national ques-
tons is the same that il professes in vr-
ginia and that the practical application of the
principles Of the republican party would be
Of vast benefit to the state of Virginia,
while democratic success would tend more
aud more to harden the times and prevent the
industrial development Of Virginia.
The senator referred to the charges " Gen.
Lee and the newspapers that he had been
waving the bloody shirt. He denied this but
proceeded 10 reiterate what be had said, as
follows
charge among other things that Constitu-
tioual rights and privileges had been disrc-
gsrdrd 10y the democratic party, esp cia'ly in
the southern states, that in the last election,
| in the year OF our Lord l~si. wherever the
yot's OF the colored people wouIi affect the
result they were deprived OF their franchise
| by one device or other, and thus politca!
uower spportioned to the colorcd population
| was Transferred to and exercised hy white
| democrats Of the south, 40 as to make their
! political power greater than other citizens
and, by these means, Grover Cleveland be-
| came president OF the I nted States instead OF
| James G. Blaine.
The truth OF what I said was not contro-
verted by Gov. Hoadly nor Senator Thur
man, nor, az tar as | am advised. by Gen.
Lee. pointed TO the public records, which
| proved all ! said and especially quoted from
recent leading publications in the south their
| uIl AMI IN, qIlvOcal admissions OF the facts
sta ed by me go TAR as they affected the
states Of South Carolina, Georgia and Mis-
sssppi, and their frank svowal of and de-
fense OF their conduct.
Gen. Lee, II am not mistaken. has con-
! Quoted HE canvass almost entirely upon the
| basis Of an appeal 10 the confederate soldiers
10 the pride OF Virginia, tor the couray. they
Inhibited in the war, and with military trap
| pings, flags, and Cavalcade, he tries TO turn
the attention Of your people from the ques-
tions OF the present time, from your material
development, from protective tariff to the
| memories Of war in which Virginia fought
braveIy while there was hope, and submit
ted hOnorably TO the arbtrament OF aims
| when their cause was lost.
| II was of the present was speaking. and
not Of the past and | said that this evil of
depr7ing legal voters OF their right to vote
| was 20 great, wide reaching in its influence
that il would never be submitted to- bat that
some remedy would be found to prevent its
| success. J did not al that time dream that
the same tactics of fraud and violence in the
| south ~ which ! cOmphined were about to
| be transferred to the state of Ohio. Yet so it
| was 10 the recent election in the city of
| Cincinnati where the democratic party had
| control OF the police. and substantially OF the
election, they resOrted to frau and violence
so gross and shameless that even among the
democrats Of Ohio there is an outcry against
such proceedings ! denouuce them as | de-
Houuced kindred frauds in the south. and iu-
woke against them the honest Indignation OF
Eirginiars as | did of the people OF Ohio.
Senator Sherman declared that the question
at issue involved the fundamental principles
of the government. Every voter should be
allowed to vote as he pleased and his vote
should be honestly counted He appealed to
men of all parties to see that this is done.
In questions pertaining to free ballot and
honest elections, Virginia is far more inter-
ested than Ohio. The two yirgiuias, taken
AS a whole and united into one state as they
should be, possess more undeveloped re
sources than Pennsylvania or any OF the
western states. You have coal and iron with
"g. '.u., uuue' SUI tAuaus'eu out GaPao!e
VI t.,,,ini iou na'e uaro'f' ana rivers
'eau.'ut as 'he sun 'hlues upon gu
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.ne p'o'uI1 ., ue sea ana Oil the produc-
TSus. rU"' =. tue 'aHp su',eu 10 your cLihAte'
u'se nIe uo' NY op'H'ous Expressed Tor lhe
ulSt % "n. ~ lou 10 PoI'C"' CANVASS, put
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