Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-27
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.

speech HIS lIlt StiitiillC OiO 'rNe+i o.
with somewhat of the "bloody shirt in
it. Time has not taught Senator Sher-
man any lessons of late. He could not
refrain calling to his aid the old idols OF
his party He called attention to the
fact that some OF the men who had
fought against the Union had been re-
turned to the places in the Government
which they vacated that they might fight
for the Confederacy. Well, is the war not
over. and should it not be matter of con-
graduation that those men are reconclled
to their defeat and the preservation OF the
Union than a matter OF regret and re-
proach? He likewise alluded to the
placing of the flag at half-mast on the
death of Jacob Thompson, who was Sec
retarv OF the Interior under President
Buchanan. He then spoke of the fact
that two men who had been in rebellion
against the Government and who now
represent it abroad The war is long
since over, and one who was far more
prominent in it than Senator Sherman,
said, LET us have peace" and just be-
fore his death, it was great consolation
to him to think that sectional strife was
fast disappearing. This fact is not sui
ficiently emphasized.
1t was natural for the Senator to refer to
the Presidential campaign Of last year and
to the Republican candidates. He seemed
to think it was 4 terrible outrage on hui
manity, and especially the Republican
portion of it, that New York went Demo-
cratic by a little more than 1000 majorl-
tv, and declared that the detection in the
Republican ranks would not have brought
about the defeat of Blaine anyhow had
it not been for the "solid South" declar-
ing that "even this detection among the
Republicans would have been ineffective
but for the solid South, which is held to-
gether in political fellowship by crimes Of
violence and fraud, which, if continued,
will as surely renew the strifes of the
Civil War as that the sun rolls around in
its COURSE" Surely this is a terrible
picture to contemplate and to know tina tit
is actually the case-if Senator Sherman
is to be believed. The entire
part of his speech which referred to the
South and the negro, was "bloody shirt"
to the core The most arduous task
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quiring very extraordinary effort and re-
sources, was the defense OF John Roach.
Such an undertaking showed dauntless
courage, but it also showed Il great want
of appreciation of facts. Such an under
taking recalls the remark that dis
tinguished Frenchman made concerning
the charge OF the Light Brigade at
Balaklava: at is magnificent, but it is
not war" He said that under the rule
laid down by Secretary Whitney in
Roach's case "none but TOOL would
take contract OF the Govern
ment to construct ship or
anything else" In the light of
Secretary Whitney's experience with
the dolphin" and Roach, too, we should
say that none but a fool would contract
with Roach "to construct a ship or any
thing else" for the Government. After
Roach was made white and delight
some person, the Senator said that "illicit
distilleries abounded in the South in the
belief that Democratic rule meant free
whisky" We will not undertake to dis
pute this, but it is also well-known and
indisputable fact that "illicit distilleries
abounded in the South" under Repub-
lican rule, but whether under the belief
that Republican rule meant free whisky,
We do not pretend to say. Was it
under Democratic or Republican rule
that the whisky ring and Babcock existed
in st. Louis some ten years ago?
Such, in the main, was the opening
speech in the Ohio campaign, and ii the
campaign there shall be conducted by the
Republicans on the lines laid down by
Senator Sherman there can be but little
doubt but that Governor Hoadly will be
reelected and that Mr.. Jonp p. Forakar
will be again retired to that quiet and
seclusion which all patriotic Republicans
80 much desire. This was the great de-
sire of Mr.. Blaine and kind Providence
and a grateful people INDUCED him in it.
Such is the reware of virtue.