Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-10-01
eThe newspaperorgan of the poIitical

1.-The neWspaper0rgan OF the political
Prohibitionist, at Springfield, is called
the Era. and is as gross in its falsehoods
about Republican statesmen as any
Democratic paper in Ohio. 1t is down
in the dirt SO far as to charge Senator
Sherman with the reduction of the
wool tariff which so offended the WOOL
growers of Ohio. 1T is well known that
the real fault was with the New Eng
land Senators who formed an alliance
with the cotton States. Mr.. Sherman
was the champion of the wool-growers
but was defeated In the voting on the
details of the bill. Then in the last
days of the Congress Sherman had to
make choice between sacrificing the
whole work of revision of the tariff un-
der the tremendous demand for O re-
duction of revenue, and accepting it,
though the bill did not do the WOOL
growers Justice. That was perfectly
understood, and the howl about Sher-
man and the wool-growers is from
those who do not know the facts, or are
Indifferent about them. The attack
upon Sherman in this connection by an
alleged temperance paper, shows the
nature of the fraud upon the public to
which DIR. Leonard has allied himself.u
Every Senator from New England
all Republicans voted in favor of the
reduction Of the wool duty. Then
came the final vote in which Mr.. Sher-
man had the opportunity to defeat the
proposed reduction of the duty on wool.
1t was passed by his vote! Without
his vote it would not have passed. He
| is the champion of q high tariff. He
claims to be the special advocate PRO
lection, but at that time his heart was
SO set on reducing revenue that rather
than give up the accomplishment of his
darling purposes, viz: the abolition of
the tax on bank checks and drafts and
to reduce tariff taxation, he was willing
to surrender the fiockmasters of Ohio
to a competition with Australia, for
which they were not prepared! Every
Democrat from OhiO-his colleague,
George H Pendleton, Representatives
LeFevre, Ieedom, Converse, Atherton
tour present candidate for Supreme
Judge), and Geddes voted against the
bill. fisherman had voted with them
the bill would have been defeated, and
the fiockmasters of Ohio would not
have been surrendered to their enemies.
w u6u OASuoC llu0 ltC III thlc tOtCt Ollly
this: That 1t was SO important to have
the internal revenue, the duties on dank
checks, drafts, ETC., abolished, and tariff
taxation less, that he was willing to
give up the interests of the fock-mas-
ters of Ohio hisconstituents), although
the General Assembly of Ohio had in
structed him to stand by them. In his
speech In the Senate on this subject he
said: @fThe people whom / represent
are willing to submit to a reduction on
this article.n His President had en-
bodied the following in his annual
message II say his President, because,
although history informs us that Sher-
man had Arthur turned out of the Of
flee of Collector for the Port of New
York for malfeasance in office, he was
his active supporter for the Presidency,
on the principle probably that man
unfit to be a collector might be q fairly
good Republican candidate for Vice
President, with the chances ofsucceed-
ing to the Presidency, as in fact hap
pened, President Arthur, / say, em-
bodied in his annual message the fol-
lowing: II recommend substantial
reduction on sugar, molasses, silk, wool
and w0olen goods Senator Sherman
cannot evade or distort his record on
this subject. AT Washington G. HI,
Ohio, in September, 1883, while oppos-
ing my election for Governor, lie used
the following language In a public
speech. Though the reduction on
wool was q great blunder which the
New England manufacturers will have
cause to regret, and although + did all I
could to correct it, yet the bill was on
the whole so much better than a Dem
ocratic Congress would give us, that I
did not hesitate to vote forit.n What
assurance have the flock masters Of
Ohio that he will be faithful to them ii
reelected to the Senate? 1883 was not
the first year he labored against their
interests! He was at it land successful
w in 1872. The following letters from
Y. Cs Stevens, Esq, Of Kenton, Ohio,
one Of the first citizens Of the State, d
Republican withal, to whom Iwrote