The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-21
HE is STILL SORE.
John Sherman Continues to
Talk of the Past.
The Convention of 1888 Left
Him Raw Too.
GEN GARFTETn AGAIN
GEN. GARFIELD AGAIN.
Sherman Says He Had No Will
Power.
Sec'y Carlisle's Recent Speech
Found Fault With.

NEW YORK, Nov. Ex-senator Sher-
man of Ohio talked freely yesterday in
regard to his recently published book
and other matters.
81 would like to read Mr.. Plat's an
swer to what stated concerning the
national convention of 1885" he said,
in reply to a question. 1.-THE fact is,
I desire to know just what his ex-
PLANTATION would be. It would be
interesting to me. Personally, have
nothing against him, and what
stated in my book was without malice,
and merely introduced as matter of
history. l felt that in the history I
should tell things as they were, and in
a dispassionate way"
The Senator stated that he HAD met
ex-President Harrison and Warner
Miller and had had pleasant chats with
them. He added that Mr.. Miller came
to his room and they talked over many
1eoS. Mr.. Miller'S recollection of
events tailed with the Senator's.
1.-The New York delegation" added
the Sena tor, had a banquet on the
Saturday before the convention of
1883, and after Senator Miller had
made a speech, they all agreed to sup
port me. I received a telegram to
that effect. Sunday interviewed and
in the meantime Elkins and other
friends of Harrison got Mr.. Platt to
agree to vote for him on the first bal
lot Monday. The result is known.
have no charges to make against ex-
President Harrison and our relations
are pleasant. Whatever bargains or
promises his friends might have made,
he did not sanction, because he
absolutely refused to appoint Mr..
Platt secretary of the treasury.
Promises may have been made
in regard to Federal patronage
in this State and that 1 do not crit
icise. Mr.. Platt's men, | believe, re-
ceived prominence, notably the col
lectorship. The acme of Mr.. Platt's
ambition seems to be to hold the port
folio of the secretary of the treasury"
In regard to the national conven-
ton of 1880, when Garfield was nom
mated, he said that when he saw the
drift was for Garfield he telegraphed
to his friends to swing the Ohio dele
cation for him.
Garfield was an able and brilliant
man in some respects" he continued.
''But he did not have strong will
power. He permitted men of stronger
will to influence him"
The Senator then turned his atten-
ton to Secretary Carlisle's speech.
The basic error OF the speech, he main
tanned, was the Secretary's idea that
legal tenders could be done away with
entirely. 1t could not be done. He
said this in substance: The great
mistake was in the way the Democratic
administration had tempered with the
gold reserve. 1t should have issued
short bonds of five years duration,
which the people here would have
taken up quickly at three per cent,
and with this paid the expenses of
the government instead of trench
ing on the gold reserve. The short
bonds, of course, would have been
paid for in legal tender. Instead of
doing this the administration had per-
mitted domestic and foreign bankers
to clear ST., 200, 900 by selling bonds
for gold at four per cent. Carlisle's plan
of Tuesday night was impractical
There are 5000 national banks and it
would not do, in order to have cur
rency, to take the gold out of the
United States treasury and scatter it
around in these banks to redeem
money that had been issued by these