Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-01-15
sax YEARS MORR OF SHERMAN.

loicd for United States Senator, for the
term seginning March 4th, 1887. The re
suit was declared on the first ballot as fol.
lows; John Sherman, 81; Allen g. Thur
man, 6S
We should be pleased II VIC could feel n
aymptom Of approval over the result, ba,
we can not. We know that we have
wounded the feelings of many in the late
campaign whose friendship we have es.
tsemcd, politically aud socially. But we
have been wholly unable 10 change deep
seated convictions regarding john Shcr-
man.
The financial problem Of this vast ooun.
try is too deep for the ordinary mlnd, in
fact for all except those who are placed In
position TO grasp with aud have the inci
| nation and time 10 make study OF it..
We have been led TO believe sinoe the war
that Mr. Sherman was patriotic, states.
man and a great fnancicr, and was work
ing Tor the best interests of the country.
Entertaining this belief we have been
pleased TO ace him placed in positions OF
honor and trust where he could he useful
to the country and mankind in general.
We contend that 1t is his fault If many
have been compelled TO change their mind
upon these points, and have come to re.
gard him as a tricky, shrewd and avar.
iciuus politician-"only this and nothing
more, forever more" His greatest ad-
mirers do not deny that he made big
financial speculation for John Sherman
and his particular friends in buying up
large stocks of whisky just prior to rnis-
ing The tax on that article, when ii requir.
ed his vote to make this change in the tax.
With the loose political morals that have
prevailed for some years, this act has
been justified to that extent that any
lawmaker OF the country would feel justi-
fed in changing the value of any product
of the country for chance at a similar
speculation. There are also plenty of
Republicans now who are willing to admit
that his great financial theory of contrac-
tion and resumption would have proved
stupendoHs failure, ruinous to the coun.
try and all his future political aspirations,
had not n kind Providence come to the
rescue with a succession of good harSests.
The summing up of the records for ten
years, from '6S to rs, in which John Sher.
man played prominet part, shows bril-
liant generalship in the interest of Wall
Street, Syndicates and cupon clippers, and
very trying times for the toiling masses
of the people. II they failed to see it then,
in the excitement of reconstruction and
conseqent political strife, they ought TO be
able to see it now with the results before
them. The unpruduetlve portions of the
East that will scarcely raise white beans,
possesses the bonds and money wealth OF
country, while the productive portions OF
the West cannot get sufficient TO transact
business, except by mortgages upon their
real estate. In short he has been good
friend and tool for the syndIcates and
class Of people whose wealth amply pro-
yided them to take care OF Themselves, and
,herby has proven himself an enemy to
the toiling millions by using his ability in
legislation favorable to the former class.
His friends, who look at the situation
from R different standpoint, are pleased 10
give him credit for bossng the compaign
in OHIO in the year just closed. THIS, if
no other cause existed, should be sufficient
10 retire him to private life. First, the
convention WAS called at least two menths
earlier than il should have been. and at
time when all except those who hang
around county seats and make business
and living out of politics were excluded
from attending. Then came the false and
fraudulent issue, especially 30 in State
campaign, OF counting out the negro vote
in few Southern States, when 1t had be-
come an established fact tha: by mutual
consent OF the bosses OF The two great po-
litical parties only year previous q ma
jority of the electors Of the State of Ohio
had been counted out on the Second
Amendment. A platform was constructed
OF equal sophistry and merit. A promi-
neut Republican official in Cincinnati,
who has helped make many platforms in
New York and Ohio, remarked to us in
August last that ii he could not write a
better one in tea minutes lie would quit
politics. Then slanderous and most
disgraceiul onslaught was made upon the
Prohibition party-composed principally
Of men who had made the Republican
party, and made it worthy of more sub
slantial lease of life than ii ia destined TO
have under such wilful, malicious and
mercinory managers "a now have control
Of the machinery of the party. 1t was
only through outrages perpe,rated by the
leading Democrats in the last Legislat ure
that gave the party any showing for the
disgraceful victory won. 1t was choice
between two evils that the electors who
know enough TO know how TO vote for the
welfare of a Republic were compelled to
make. 1t is either time to abolish the
United States Senate, or the plan OF elect
ing the members thereof.
II hoe oe'oie, We are HoW prepared tC
accept Gen. Tecumseh Sherman's defini-
tion ol his brother, John, twenty-five year.
ago. Some three months ago Townsend Il
Newton, onc-armed private soldier o
Toledo, and great admirer of Gen. Sher
man, prepared lecture on the life ant
services of the General, OF which he sent u
pamphlet copy. There is no little valuable
information and interesting data in thi
lecture. He quotes Gen. Sherrnan's q letter o
resignation AZ Superintendent of the Mill
tary Academey in Louisiana, then follow
HIM to Washington. After relating tn
, intimate acquaintance the Gen. had wit
the leading Generals in the South, Ii
{ quotes as follows from Gen. Sherman