Evening journal., 1893-05-02

ways to occupy 1t again, which made
even the Indianapolitans bitterest |
party rivals vince as ~ a stiletto had |
snesked between their ribs, so true was |
the thrust, 80 sharp the blade
Tom Platt Is an artist In that. When
man needs to be sized up Tom Platt
can make an estimate Of him that will
be long and bitterly remembered. There
was nothing in all the canvass which
followed so scathing, nothing could have
touched Mr. Harrison, II anything
touched him at all, in such raw spots as
that word caricature Of Tom Platt,
artist
Having been quiet for some time, he
has evidently been thinking for few
days ago he complimented Senator John
Sherman upon his possession of the art
Of framing and passing a bill in the
interest of free silver while retaining
the reputation of sound fnsncier and
the leadership of the gold monometal
lists.
"Such man, he said, "has really a
very useful art in politics don't know
any other man who, without working
bis immediate ruin, could be responsible
for law making It eternally mandatory
upon the United States 60 spend $50
600, 900 annually buying what it does not
want and cannot use in the effort 10
accomplish result which everybody
admits to be impossible, and yet Senator
Sherman is more admired to-day than he
has been at any point in his long and
magnificent career"
That is an excellent photograph of
lohn Sherman, the greatest tergiversator
of the age and the ablest man in the
party which he has materially assisted in
political crime, and at whose grave,
now yawning, he is one of the chief
mourners and most lucky legatees He
does not put the Senator's head In a
graceful position; he is careless about
the lights, and ungracious in allowing
the angularities Of the person to be ex-
aggerated in the picture. He is a truth
full artist; he is not aattering picture
seller But anybody can recognize the
skillful truth OF the real artist in that
picture Anybody can see that It
is meant for John Sherman as he is, not
as he might appear If toned down.
After making that photograph and
mounting it to advantage, the artist
proceeded TO use the burnisher thus:
The respects in which difTe r from the
Senator are grievously TO my disadvant
age. | am impulsive. whereas the Sena-
tor possesses in the highest degree the
/ power of self lfrestraint. The Senator
wisely reserves himself for great occa.
sions and it happens with a regularity
which shows how favoringly the fates
watch over his personal fortunes. that
those occasions are always coincidental
with that session of the Ohio Legisla
ture which Is called upon TO choose a
Senator or that meeting of a Republi.
can convention which occurs in Presi
Dental year. ! really think, If l only
possessed the calm reserve, the power
of insight into the future, the quality
of moving with the tide, and If / could
only get rid of superauous caloric, some
kind friend might honor me by saying
that as between John Sherman and Tom
Platt he wouldn't care the toss of cop.
per
Senator Sherman has been in politics
for thirty five years He has always beer
on the winning side. If he did not drift
there naturally and easily, he tackled
lie is one of the best tackers in his
party. He tacks boldly and radically H,
has no regard for the points Of the com
| pass. he does not care for storms o.
tides. He simply sails before the wind
no matter whence it comes or where II
drives him. He has got rich at that, ant
he has never got out OF office.