New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-14
SENATOR sHERMAN'S VICTORY.


The election of Senator Sherman returns 10
the Senate one of its most experienced ana val
liable members, and its presiding officer AT
the same time, it ends in merited defeat foul
conspiracy to overcome by crime the declared
will of the people Ohio is to be congratulated
that there has been found in the State enough
of public virtue and of courage to prevent the
success of this great crime. But the people
ought to be warned that their blessings OF sell
government are not safe unless they bring to
punishment the criminals who have c0nlrlved
and perpetrated these offences against the SOW
ereignty of the people, and made provision by
new laws for the protection of the ballot boxes
throughout the State.
Senator Sherman has been to Democrats an
object of peculiar hatred. II is now about
thirty years since he gained National fame by
the powerful report of the committee OF when
he was chairman on the Infamous 0utrages In
Kansas That odious crime was an attempt to
deprive the people of Territory OF selt-gov-
eminent, and the latest victory of his evenful
public life is a triumph over an attempt to de-
prive the people of Ohio of self government
During all the intervening years he has been
among the foremost a defender of the rights of
the people, and of all the people. The great
crime against the sovereignty OF the people
which is commonly called the Rebellion, had no
more earnest or effective foe than the Senator,
whose services in the Senate were in a different
way perhaps as valuable ms those of his brother
the General in the field. After the war, IN all
the work of reconstruction, the Senator was
faithful defender of the rights of the whole
peOple He was not one of those who believed
in surrendering the South to organized aSsassl-
nation. The great crime against free govern
ment which Democratic cOnspiratOrs devised in
secret Ku Klux Klans, and by stuffed ballot
boxes and perjuied returns have finally carried
to success, Senator Sherman has never hest
tated to call by its right name.
His widest reputation has been made in con-
nection with financial questions. If he should
pass from public life to-day it would ever be
remembered that it was under his guidance
that the only nation on earth which ever com
pletely restored the value of legal-tcnder prom
Uses to pay accom- ished that feat, which 80
many deemed impossible. While freely criti
cising details of his financial management, The
TRIBUNE has never hesitated to award to him the
highest praise for splendid ability in that field,
as for conspicuous fidelity to public interests.
lie comes back to the Senate again as one of
the most uncOmpromising as he is one of the
most powerful advocates of Protection to Home
Industries. The decisive point in his favor in
all discussions in Ohio has been that he has not
hesitated to confront with resolute opposition
other leaders of his own party, and even large
majority of his political associates in the
Senate, on every issue which seemed to him to
involve the permanence or the completeness and
efficiency of the protective system. The whole
country triumphs over its adversaries at home
and abroad, and over all the foes of its industry
when such man is returned to position Of
power and of high trust.