The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-12
If the Temper of the Ohio Legislature Is Fa-
vorable 1t Is Definitely Stated the Change
Will Be Made Early This Winter.
Wants to Write Book on the Late Civil
War While His Mind Is Vigorous.
lie Is Nearly Sixty Nine FEARS of Age, and
Would Not Have Made the last Fight for
Reelection but for Forakers Ambition.


Will Retire from the Federal Senate In Fa-
vor of Secretary Charles Foster.
Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1l.-Secretarv Charles
Foster, of the Treasury Department. Will
soon become Senator Foster, of Ohio. Sena-
tor John Sherman has promised to resign in
favor of Mr.. Foster. and if the temper OF
the Ohio Legislature Is favorable the
change Will be made early in the session of
the Legislature this winter. This informa-
ton your correspondent gets from two re-
liable sources-from men intimately asso-
cissed with Secretary Foster and Senator
Sherman. It transpires now that short
time before the Ohio Legislature
convened last winter. and the cleo
ton of Senator Sherman's sue
cessor was to tako place. the latter
determined to abandon his campaign for
reelection and retire to private life. He has
been in the United States Senate for pc
Rod of abouttwenty-fiv eyears, in the lower
house of Congress eight years. had served
two terms as Secretary of the Treasury.
and, being nearly sixty-nine years OF age,
he felt that he could afford to retire to
private life rather than continue O struggle
for reelection, which promised only de-
feat At . moment when Sherman was
about to retire from the field and permit
the election of Ex-Governor Foraker cs his
successor, Secretary Foster went to him at
his home in Mansfield and begged the Sena-
tor to stay in the field for reelection. He
finally yielded. went to Columbus
and opened headquarters, and with
the very earnest support of
Secretary Foster and the lattsTs
friends he was successful. Shortly AFTER
HE reelection Senator Sherman sent word
to ME-. Foster that within few months. or
as soon as the temper of the Legislature
was right, he would resign and recommend
as his successor the Secretary of the Treas
ury. Recently the Senator has intlmated
that the time may be as soon as the Ohio
Legislature convenes.
3enator Sherman desires TO devote the re-
maining day s of his vigor to the preparation
of book upon the hate war. 1t will be
made Up mostly Of letters from his lately
deceased brother, Gen. William I. Sher-
man. and will, 1t is stated, have many ex-
tremely interesting and new features Sen
ator Sherman wants to comp lete this work
while he possesses his present mental vigor,
and feels that he has not long to wait. 1t
is. therefore, expected that he will be ex-
Senator John Sherman within very few
weeks. sEe
Senator Sherman called upon President
Harrison this afternoon, and later upon
Secretary Foster. In conversation with
the President, and touching upon the re-
cent election. Senator Sherman said
that the Democratic victory was due
to the prevailing unpopularity of the Nc
kinley tariff law. 1t has not had time. he
said. to vindicate itself, and it seemed for
the present to arouse feelings of i'll Will
upon the part Of the mechanic and laborer
against the manufactures, the former be-
Loving that the latter received dispropo-
tlonal advantages under the law. The
Senator expressed the opinion that the law
would grow in popularity if permitted TO
stand. although he recognized in 1t some
inequalities which the Repub licans would
have modified or rectifed had they been
continued in power The Senator is look
ing well and happy.