The morning call., 1892-01-08
SENATOR SHE MAN.

/ The Ohio Republicans have done them
/ selves credit by re-electing Senator Sher-
man. He has been a central figure IN one
/ of the most momentOuS periods of Amerl-
/ can history. Thirty years have elapsed
! since he entered public life; Of the men
who sat beside him in the Thirty-fourth
/ Congress not a dozen survive lie made
his mark in his very first session; the tall,
/ slim youth, who lO0med up from Ohio, soon
/ commanded the attention of the House and
when he got a chance Of expressing his
| views on slavery. he drew all eyes IN the
! North. Luck attended him from his start.
! committee was raised in tie House to in
ouirc into the attempts Of the slaYe-owneTs
/ 10 force slavery on Kansas; Howard OF
Michigan was Chairman aud sherman
second On the committee Howard Tell ILL.,
and the work aud the glory fell TO Sherman.
In 1879 he was the choice Of the Republican
caucus for Speaker Ii CHANGED that man
named Helper had written a book In which
he predicted the early downfall Of slavery.
There was nothing new in the book; read
ing il over to-day it appears 10 contain
nothing hat dreary Commonplaces. But the
South was out OF temper. The 1re-eaters
discovered that Sherman had signed a GER
udcaJe recommending the book, and they
declared that they would never allow him 70
be Speaker They would take almost any
other Northerner, but not sherman. The
Republicans stood by their man for eight
weeks; but at last they yielded and Mr.
Pennington Of New Jersey was elected. The
contest had the effect of concentrating at
tention on the young Ohioau. When Chase
entered President Lincon's Cabinet Sher-
man succeeded him in the Senate, and has
held the post continuously ever since, except
during the four years when he was Secre-
tary OF the Treasury under Hayes.
Sherman administration of the finances
during the period when specie payments
were resumed was mastery. There IS 10
other instance on record of a return to
specie payments in the face of large issues
Of legal-teuder paper without c0nyu siOus
Of a disastrous nature. Great Britain nearly
baukrupteI itself in attempting to do that
very thing and Russia has for years yajnly
endeayored &C. effect the transition. Under
Sherman's far-sighted policy the United
/ States gided from fat money to real money
/ almost without friction; not a single mer-
/ camille failure was ascrbed 10 the change.
! That is triumph enough for any man.
During the last twelve years Senator
/ Sherman has probably been the most in
GueuGal member Of the body in when he
SITS Chairman Of the Committee on For
/ eign Relations and second on the Commit
/ tee Of Finance, whose Chairman was only
! toe glad to reliuquish work TO his colleague.
/ he may be said to have so largely d0mi-
mated the Senate that 10 bill Of importance
could become a law without his assent
/ The main goal of his ambition-the Presi-
/ dency-he never attained. lie made Presi-
dents, bat was not Of them. But for him
Hayes could not have been nominated.
/ Carried went to Chicago to nominate SHeT-
man and only accepted the nomination him.
/ self when his crrand was seen to be hope
less. Against Blaine, Sherman's friends
made hot but fruitiess fight By 1883 the
Ohjoan had fallen into the lis. Of candidates
who had been so often rejected that they
were assumed TO be unavailable.
/ Ohio has never had 50 potential q repre-
/ sentative in the Senate as Sherman, and
/ she did wisely in retaining him in her
I service He is a tower OF strength to her
/ She IS never kept waiting for anything she
wants when the table is laid she is in
Yited to help herself.