Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-28
M'KlNLEY AND SHERMAN
How the Senator's Book Has Hurt 0hio's
Favorita
The Buckeye Program Disarranged-
Southern Resentment May Hurt
the Candidate.

There is a story which recOes that John
Sherman's book has proved to be BOOM
erang IT. more ways than one. 1t has not
only emtroiled him with republican lead
ers in every section of the country-some
of them in tim g past his friends and sup
porters-but it has forced, or will force,
change in program. which,. in the event
of Gov. McKinleys election to the presi-
dency, was to transfer him once more to
the Treasury Department.
The particulars, as given, are interesting.
Mr.. Sherman is said to be tired of the
Senate. The only topic serving to arouse
bin, there is finance, and of mere debate
on that subject he has had quite enough.
What he wants Is action. and the return
of the republican party to complete legis-
laton and executive power. now thought
TO lie guaranteed. will afford strong man
in the Treasury Department an excellent
opportunity to do the country q lasting
and most eminent service.
The Ohio Program.
The Ohio people, it is said. have be-
thought themselves of all this, and were
arranging for a sweeping and brilliant play
which was to comprehend the following
features:
Mckinley for President: appealing to the
manufacturing and agricultural interests
on the score of a generous measure of pro-
lection.
Sherman for the Treasury Department
appcalir e to the financial centers with the
first name on the list of modern masters of
the science of money. The man who piloted
the country out of the slough of 1STS-19 to
pilot her out of the far deeper slough of
this date.
Charles Foster for Sherman's share in the
Senate. and thus provide for the man who
has always wanted to come to the Senate,
hnh aS DIV limo TO md lore
money for the party in Ohio than any other
buckeye leader. and Who despite recent
reverses and retirement, is still very pop
ular.
Such, in full lines, is said to have been the
play which the Ohio men thought would
sweep the board. Mckinley for high, Foster
for low, Sherman for jack and the combina-
homogeneous protection and sound finance
for the country at large, and the end of all
factionalism for Ohio in particular-for
game. But just as the greatness of it was
ripening came the Sherman book-a YER
table frost-and nipped the tender shoot.
Republicans everywhere are angry, and in
Ohio old wounds have been reCpened that
may never heal again.
HO. Mckinley is Affected.
Some of the Mckinley men feel greatly
outraged. That Mr.. Sherman's blunder-if
1t may properly be called blunder-must
injure their favorite ms inevitable. 1t
will operate against him, they think, in two
ways. In the first place it mas robbed him of
all help that Mr. Sherman would otherwise
have been able to render him. They consider
that the Senator has no influence whatever
left with the managing politicians now. He
has offended against their NEST sacred laws.
He has gone into conventions as candi-
date, and accepted some pretty skfllful
maneuvering in his own behalf. and yet de-
ounces the same things as done for his
opponents. He charges the opposition with
unfair practices, and terateS some of his
own supporters for having yielded to those
practices. His lash is so long. indeed, and
he lays on with so much energy. the sting
is felt all over the United States. Mr..
Depew in New York and Gen. A1ger in
Michigan have already replied, and other
replies are known to be in course of prep
aration. By spring, 1t is predicted, Mr..
Sherman's tall form will show as many ar
rows as that of an early Puritan surprised
by the Indians at corn planting, or on his
pious way to church
The Offended South.
In the second place. Mr.. Sherman has
impeached the party in the south This
point, it is complained. is emphasized in
his book. 1t Is the south, as he charges
that sold out. 1t was the Sherman contin-
gent from the south that the Al.ser man
ayers are accused of having raided. Now,
as it happens, the Mckinley men are MAX
ing earnest play for southern support, and
are encouraged by the progress SO far re-
ported But will any further progress be
possible? VIII they be able even to hold
fast all that good fortune Up to tLis time
has given them? Gov. Mckinley, it is true
has made no charges against the south.
But the trouble feared is that. because of
Mr.. Sherman's support of him, and the
private circulation of this story of the ar
rangement for the return Of the Ohio Sena-
tor to the Treasury Department in case of
Gov. McKinley's election TO the presidency,
the south may in some measure visit Mr..
Sherr!sn's offense on Gov. Mckinley's
head
The slate it is believed, will fall through,
If 1t has not done already. Mr. Sher-
man at the head of the Treasury Depart
ment, with such enormous patronage at
his command, would have it in his power
to make too many people feel sighted, if
not positively unhappy.