Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-15
H RIGHT RING.

THE RIGHT RING.
The settlement of the senatorial con-
test-in republican caucus-in Ohio was
followed by two characteristic off hand
speeches by the two distinguished con-
testants, which indicates their loyalty to
the republican party and respect for each
other. After the result of the caucus
was announced, both Sherman and For
aker were escorted to the platform and
Senator Sherman said:
l return to you my heartfelt thanks for
the very high honor conferred upon me.
We have just passed through quite a
contest-the most formidable contest ever
encountered in Ohio, and l hope more
formidable than any I will ever be called
upon to encounter hereafter. l know, gen.
tlemen, that you have been called upon to
make a choice. 1t was unpleasant for you,
because o would have liked to have
glad to have had two senators to elect in
stead of one.
am glad to say that in this contest l
have held in my language, and in my heart
the highest feeling or respect and honor
for the gentleman who has been my COM
pcllGOl dIU VIII Is IlOW UGlUIc you. III Is
entitled to the love and affection of the
people of Ohio, and if you have given me
this high honor because of my experience,
you have not moderated the high quail
ties, mental and moral, of Governor Fora
ker:
Though you have been engaged in this
friendly contest, we are all republicans,
and | trust ever will be republicans, true
to our cause and true to the principles we
advocate. With heart o~ver1owing with
thanks that l cannot express, / again re-
turn to YOU, as the senators and represen-
tativeS of our state, my thanks for this al
most equal honor, and now l leave you.
After the applause which greeted Sena-
tor Sherman's speech had somewhat sub
sided, Ex-Governor Foraker was introduced
by the chairman in a few we'll chosen
words. He said:
l am Informed that so far as you are con-
cerned the senatorial caucus is ended; and
l have come here in response to your kind
invitation to say thai so far as | am con-
cerned it is also ended. You did not end
it as l had hoped you might llaughterl,
but you are the duly accredited and au.
thOriZed representatives of the republic
cans of Ohio, and your will is law unto me
and mine.
AS Senator Sherman has said, we have
been having something of a contest. For
the last ten days we have been divided in
to Foraker men and Sherman men, and we
have been striving against each other.
There has been possibly some grasping and
some friction, but at this hour, it is our
highest duty to remember that from now
henceforth, in the language again of our
senator, we are no longer Sherman men or
Foraker men. but republicans always. l
have no resentmentS, no bitterness of feel
ing to carry home with me. On the con-
trnrr I cha11 rn hooI- fn fIn ,,,r.,,it nj NJ,
profession with my mind n my heart
filled with only a grateful recollection and
a pleasurable, and, l trust, pardonable
price for the gallant, intrepid band who
have honored me with their support in this
contest.
Without any disposition to ~criticise or
find fault in the slightest degree. but only
as an excuse in so far as that may
be necessary for enlisting in a cause
that has not been crowned with sue
cess, but defeat, let me sag to those
friends that when we entered upon it l did
not foresee some Of its features. l was not
aware then, as we have since come to
know, that we had to fight not only those
republicans of Ohio who were against us,
but because it was grand old John Sher-
man on the other side, it was the whole
United States against us.
The senator has said he does not want
any more contests like this. l thank you
III Clo COiuplllllcuG, anu FOuCu W you tudG
l 40 not want ever again to cross swords
with Sherman. Laughter and applause.]
l shall pick out another fellow the next
time. [Renewed laughter.
We are in the presence of another great
contest: 1t so happens that under our
form Of government we pass only from
one campaign to another. That which is
now before us is a national contest. We are
TO determine in November next whether we
shall continue at Washington a republican
administration or whether il shall be
succeeded by a democratic administration.
This is no time for me to dwell upon the
important consequences Of such a change,
but L allude to it only to admonish you as
republicans that, standing as we do in the
presence of such responsibility, it is our
duty to get shoulder to shoulder and at
once prepare not only to look to the future,
but to move forward after the banner of
republicanism to a grand and triumphant
victory. which it is our duty and which it
Will be in our power to achieve.