Omaha daily bee., 1890-10-26
SENATOR SHERN1N.
He Addresses an Audience Of Four
Thousand copIe at Pittsburg.


PTTsBURG, Pa, Oct. %. -Four thousand
people gathered In the city han toni ght to
listen to an address by Senator John Sher-
man on the issues Of the campaign. In the
course Of his speech Senator Sherman said ::
"There can really be but two great parties
There arc sometimes people who think
they are a little better than their neigh.
bOrs, go off 10 rOost by themselves
on some side issue and cali themselves third
party. l have had more experience in
political life than some Of my hearers, and
never saw any good come out Of a third party
yet. We are all republicans or ali democrats
in the general meaning of the term, because
we are all in favor of a form Of government
in which all the powers rest with the people.
Therefore these names do not signify any.
thing. We must Judge of parties precisely as
we would Judge of men, aud, judged bk this
test, OF the two parties that now stand be-
fore the people of this country. one is like
heaven and the other is like hades.
LauFhief aG and e6sGrs ,e In ,s sss the people Of
publicans with their political power,
No, the first power was the power
TO appoint the officers Of this great govern
ment of ours, and that power, instead of
Deing strength to any party, is weakness,
and upon that basis nearly all public men
who fall in public life by the wayside fall by
the exercise of patronage. | say TO you now
that II | had the power l would not
allow member of congress 10
recommending any man for any office what
ever. Cheers. | would take from your
political agents all the power that is in.
vested in them by common cnstom, not by
law. | would take from them all that power,
and ] would not even allow member of
congress to recommend postm.asters,
because II is an element Of
weakness. It weakens the members
Of the house and senate and it makes a cause
Of constant trouble and quarrel, and | think
the time will come soon when the republican
party will be the agent in that great reform,
when law will be passed separating en-.
tirely the appointing power from the law
making power
After reviewing the stormy scenes in the
| early part Of the session and the important
| measures passed after the rules were adopted,
| and presenting a strong plea for the soldiers,
| Senator Sherman took up the Mckinley bill,
| q measure, he said, which makes free a
| greater amount Of the products of foreign
countries in our own country than any tariff
| bill Of ancient or modern times. Referring 10
| the assertion of some democratic orators that
we cannot produce sugar. the senator said:
| II am as positive as | am of my existence to.
! day that within ten years from this time we
! will produce every pound OF sugar that is used
in this country. We have put duty on tin
| plate equal to and little more than the duty
on sheet tin, and we will manufacture in this
| country within five years OF this time $50, OO)
| tons OF tin plate, and we will have to make
the tin up so cheap that nobody will growl
| but the democrats
In conclusion the senator said: SIN 1860,
| in the good old democratic times, our cur
| rency was the meanest ever devised by man
and would not pass from one part OF the
country TO another Now our money
travels all over the world. Then we
were third class power, ieered and
| laughed at, and when the war commenced
the last legacy Of a democratic administra-
ton, kings and emperors were watching for
| the decay and falling to pieces of this great
| republic. The government was tottering to
| its foundations. The eyes of all European
countries were watching the last days
| of this great republic Thank God
thank the union soldiers, thank the American
| people, this country of ours has risen far
above and beyond all fears Of this kind, and
now the people Of all these empires and king
doms are looking eagerly and anxiously fol
| the good time coming when they
can copy our institutions and enjoy
republics as we do in this country
| Then the days OF empires and kingdoms vii
have passed and gone and then governments
of the people, for the people and by the peo
pie will endure forever upon the earth
Prolonged applause.