St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-06
sHERMAN's PROGRAMME.
1t Falls Fiat After Blaine's Inter-
View---NeWSpaper Comment.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The Times says
of Sherman'S speech in the senate:
''John Sherman has issued his pro
gramme' on what he considers the most
important issue of the hour. He re-
viewed yesterday the general subject of
the surplus revenue from the point of
view of the prOtectionists and made a
caustic and ingenious, but not very eff
fective, criticism of the message of the
president. In substance, so far as can
be gathered from his speech, Mr.. Sher-
man elects to go before the country On
the repeal of the internal revenue taxes
and the preservation intact of the pro-
tective tariff duties. He went round
abOnt-way in his speech to reach this
conclusion. but it is the only one that
he did reach finally. So far as concerns
his criticism of the president it is of but
little Importance, because it was largely
based on the action of faction of the
Democrats in the house over whom Mr..
Cleveland has no control. The two as
pirantS for the nomination of the Re-
publican party as president have abOdt
and if the people get chance to vote
upon it definitely they will make short
work OF it.
MERE REHASH.
The Herald says: ''Mr. Sherman
seems to be demoraliZed over the ext
gencies of his candidacy. His speech
on the message yesterday was mere
rehash of Mr.. Blaine's cable, and dis
plays poor Mr.. Sherman in the UNI
pleasant attitude of one of Mr. Blaine's
most abject followers and imitators. So
closely did he copy his master that he
even suggested distribution of the
Inc mir IF III
was generally supposed Mr.. Blaine held
patent, with the disposition to prose-
cute all who should dare infringe it.
MIR. Sherman'S speech must have dis
appointed his friends in the senate, and
will disappOint Western Republicans,
who see that to oppose all reform of the
tariff is fatal to them, because it is to be
false to the pledges of their party and
is opposed to their own just demands.
MIR. VOORHEES, made a very fOrcible de-
Tense of the message which Mr.. Sher-
man had attacked, exposing the wrongs
and mischiefS of the surplus taxation
and of the war tariff, and urging free
raw material for the benefit of American
manufacturers. He declared rightly
that the Democratic party, in seeking to
i effect wise and conservative reform of
the tariff laws, is the trueSt friend of
the home manufacturers and of their
work people"
A TAME RECHAUFFE.
The World says: ''Senator Sherman'S
attack on the presidents message in the
senate yesterday falls flat after Mr..
Blaine's stragetic occupation of the adj
vanced post of the opposition through
his prompt cable reply to that admirable
document. Although Mr.. Sherman has
had month in which to prepare this
presidential campaign paper, it lacks
the bOldnesS and vigOr of Mr.. Blaine's
cablegram, and makes only one new
point against President Cleveland. 1t
arraigns the president for having omit
ted the usual recognition of the Su-
preme Ruler of the universe in his
anxiety to postpone all things terres-
trial and celestial until the surplus can
be got rid Of Otherwise the speech is
tame rechauffe OF Blaine's political
fricaSSe"
PRAISE FROM ONE PAPER.
/ The Tribune, commenting on Senator
Sherman's speech i'll the senate yester-
day, says: GAS practical financier,
Senator Sherman found little di fficulty
in subjecting to destructive criticism
the presidents confession of helpless
ness in dealing with the surplus. He
proved that the power of the secretary
OF the treasury to purchase bonds was
not pretenSe nor debatable SUPPOSE
ton, but an unquestionable right. With
equal success. as defender of the
economic system, the senator repealed
the attack made in the message upon
home industries. His plea in defense
of the wool interest was particularly eff
fective, and his arguments in favor of
large reductions in internal taxation
were equally vigorous. Protection he
elOquently described at the close of his
speech as the cause of home missions.
American duty to home industries. he
commended, was greater than American
duty to foreign interests. This is the
precise issue which now divides parties
and is destined to furnish all the poll
ties of the presidential year. Senator
Sherman's speech cannot fail to prove
helpful to the Republican cause from
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