Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-25
He Will Preside Over the Ohio Con-
ventiou at GAINESVILLE.
A STRONG FINANCIAL SPEECH EXPECTED
His Recommendations Will Un-
doubtedly Be Indorsed.
CONFIDENCE IN HIS ABILITY

Senator Sherman has gone to Ohio to
preside over the gubernatoriaI convention
to meet at GAINESVILLE This event is looked
on with especial interest, for the reason
that the Ohio Senator is expected to make
a strong financial speech, which will be re-
garded the keynote of the republican
party of that state during the campaign.
There is no uncertainty felt by republicans
as to the tenor of this forthcoming speech,
as the views of Senator Sherman on the
financial question are too we'll known, and
confidence is felt that the Senator's views
have not changed on this important sub
jcct.
Mny BE n Financial Moses.
Senator Sherman has always believed in
the use of silver in the monetary system Of
The government, although he has never
had patience with the doctrines of free and
unlimited coinage of silver. Very many
republicans are now looking toward Sena-
tor Sherman as strong factor in the next
national campaign. as they consider him
the ablest financier in the party or in the
country. 1t is regarded as quite likely that
Senator Sherman may prove Moses to
lead a large wing of the silver faction OF
the country into the republican party. This
claim or the part of the republicans may
sound strange to persons who are not ac-
quainted with the manner in which the ex-
secretary OF the treasury IS expected TO
come to the relief of his party.
High Regard of bankers.
Among the large class of conservative
business men and among bankers of the
country Senator Sherman Is regarded
thoroughly safe a financial leader. Any
project that carries his Endorsement will
be taken up by this class of people with
confidence and even though he should rec
oInmend plan that would appear to be
radical and unworthy of consideration II
proceeding from some other source 1t would
he accepted, and unless 1t should contain
some unusual weakness after careful ex-
animation would be indorsed. In other
words. Senator Sherman is regarded as an
unusually good compromise republican, so
far as the sound money men are concerned.
At the same time he might secure the in
dorsement of many silverites by recon-
mending some substantial recognition of
the white metal in the fnaceS of the gov
ernment, which. of course, would be very
far from anything like free silver
His RecOmm mendatiOns Will BE In
dOrsed.
If Senator Sherman sees fit to make some
recommendations for the recognition of sill
YER when he presides over the guber-
material convention at GAINESVILLE, 1t is safe
to say that they will at once be indorsed
by the sound money men of the party.
There is likelihood that he will say
leaders, but there is a large faction of sill
yer people in the republican party in the
west today who inclined to be dis
gTuntled and to kick over their party
traces unless the republican leaders make
some concession to them. 1t is this class
of silver men, republicans who would
rather vote for silver advocated by the
republican party than to vote for free sill
yer heralded by democratic leaders, that
1t is thought will be placated by utter
ances of the Ohio Senator.
Expected to Hold Free Silver Men.
There is no doubt that the cause of silver
in Ohio is extremely strong today All
through that state. without regard to party
lines, people talking of the benefits
that would arise from more plentiful use
of silver as primary moEey in the financial
system of the country. Although the re-
publican party scored decisive victories at
the last election in Ohio the leaders of the
party in that state are not without concern
over the result of the next campaign. The
claims of the democrats in that state that
the great tidal wave in politics has rolled
by and that their candidates have a chance
for success make the republicans anX-
ious to permit not only no victory for the
democrats, but even a vote that should
show a strengthening of democratic ranks
over the results of the last election would
ae looked upon as dangerous and dis
eOuraSlng to republicans throughout the
country in the national contest for the
presidency.
1t is for this reason that Republicans are
hoping that Senator Sherman will he equal
10 the occasion by proposing some financial
policy that silver republicans can indorse,
while at the same time running no ,isk of
alternating sound money members of the
party.