The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Two Notable Speeches.

SlDly FEWER.
Two Notable Speeches.
Senator Sherman opened the Ohio
campaign, last week, with notable
speech on national politics. 1t was a
speech of the stalwart republican kind,
and for that reason it has greatly dis
placed the mugwump press. The sem
ator said the restoration to power of
the democratic party, and the alliance
by which it was secured were inimical
to the interests of the country, and he
discussed at length the means resorted
to in the South to deprive more than one
million legal voters of their right to
vote whenever their vote would change
the result. He severely criticized the
administration management of the
fisheries question and the dispute with
Mexico. He said there was not in Mr..
Cleveland's message one open, manly
word in favor of the protection of
American industry. The president had
not shown broad national policy upon
any subject. The only economy he had
given us was the veto of about sixty
pension bills, saving about $4,000 a
year. He had made two great mis-
takes: He had refused the senate ac-
cess to papers on public files necessary
for the discharge of their duties, and
he had treated the Union soldiers with
scant courtesy. The senator showed
from the records how the president had
appointed rascals innumerable to office,
though he had made some good selec-
tons. Mr.. Sherman's views on the
silver question are sound and of espec-
ial interest. He says:-
" But the greatest question of all, per-
haps, is the silver question-how to make
the silver dollar equal to the gold dollar
for there should be only one standard.
have gone through one process of redeem
ing Uncle Sans money, and do not want
to go through it again. You might have put
more silver in your dollar and made it equal
to the gold, but, then, it would be too big as
it is now. But anyway it would be good
thing to go to market with. A dollar must
be dollar, and enough silver must be put
in dollar to make it a dollar, though it be
100 or 800 grains. That is honesty and pru-
dence. If had my way would stop the
coinage of the silver dollar, gather it into
Uncle Sans great vaults, and then issue
the certificates and let you handle them.
These certificates would form the basis of
our national bank circulation, and preserve,
what | believe to be the best system of
banks in this country. The tariff and other
great issues would in a great measure reg
ulate themselves, but the silver question is
the great one of the future One dollar of
one value is what we must have before we
can have that stability so necessary to ma
tional security and business success"
The address of Henry Cabot Lodge be-
fore the Massachusetts republican state
convention last week was another nota-
BILE effort He sharply arraigned the ma
tional administration for its false pre-
tence of reform, for its failure to keep
its promises, for its neglect of great ma
tional interests while dallying with the
petty spoils of office, and for its stingy
economies. The attempt to " reform -
the tariff in favor of democratic commu-
mites and to the injury of republican
communities, the presidents picayune
pension vetoes, the refusal of congress
to ntrust the administration with the
expenditure of funds for the public de.
fence, the neglect to deal with the re.
dundant silver coinage and to pass the
bankruptcy bill, the farce of civil ser.
vice reform in democratic hands, the
Pan-Electric scandal, and the humil-
iating and vacillating foreign policy OF
the state department,-these matters
were all ably and forcibly discussed by
Mr. Lodge. Especially forcible was
his demand that existing legislation
against the saloon evil be rigidly en-,
forced, and such further enactments be
secured as afford practical solution OF
the problems involved.