Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-06-18
DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF SHERMAN.

DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF SHERMAN
Washington Post.
while the young men are coming t.
the front in great numbers all over the
country, with no particular disposition
on anybody's part, even if there were
the ability, to keep them in the rear, il
does not follow by any means that the
old men are to be indiscriminately
thrown overheard, or that age is to be
universally discounted.
at must not be forgotten that men
are worth just what they are-what they
have made themselves. The measure
of their capacity is the measure of their
usefulness; and it goes without saying
that an experience of many years counts
far more in craftsmanship and legisla-
ton than an experience which is limit
ed or yet to be gained, so long as the
mental and physical powers remain un-
impaired.
at occurs to the Post in this connec-
tion that, if there be no other objection
tion to the reelection of John Sherman
as U. S. Senator from Ohio than the
fact that he is 68 years of age, and for
fully &c years has been intimately, hon.
orably and conspicuously identified with
public affairs, it would be serious mis-
take to dispense with his further serv-
ices if he still inclines to Senatorial life.
at is admitted even by those who
would displace him that his record is
one of great distinction, and that age
has in no wise affected his ability to
render his party and the cause of good
government effective aid. The worst
that is said about him, and it appears
to proceed chiefly from those who have
failed to secure, through his influence,
the full recognition that they claimed
in the way of appointments, is that ad-
vancing years have made him arrogant
and dictatOrial, but this is the same old
story that has been told of many public
men before. 1t is not an uncommon
charge against much younger men, who,
holding positions of trust, have found
themselves unable to appease the greed
or fill the hungry maws of all their re-
tainers.
at will also be urged against Mr..
Sherman, no doubt, in the spirit of dem
agogism, which has become so plentiful
and cheap of late, that he is plutocrat-
ic and in sympathy with Wall street
rather than with the people; yet if John
Sherman had done nothing during his
long life than what he accomplished for
the Union cause in the midst of a per-
ilous and costly war by his patriotic
of the bill authorizing
the issue of legal tender treasury notes,
and, few years later, by his able and
equally patriotic labors in behalf of the
resumption of specie payments and the
of the currency on a |
solid basis, he would be entitled to the
grateful and lasting remembrance of his
country.
''The Republican party of Ohio will |
do well to pause ere it retires from the |
of the Senate chamber man
who has always been stalwart defend
er of its principles, and who is still the
synonym and shield of those principles,
on the mere ground that in business as
in politics he has achieved legitimate
or that in the distribution of |
patronage he has created resentments
and enmities, that are the common lot |
Of all upon whom the hOnors of Of |
ice impose the thankless task of distrib-
lting its spoils."