The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-12
TODICS OF TuE TIME

ue hcpuDHCdl party lCu'iVlS anu jun
nails some short time since were in the
throes of a contention on the subject Of
the length of the political campaign. 1t
was finally decided that it should be a
long one. And so the various candidates
to go before the party convention are at
this early day beginning to put in their
work. Senator John Sherman opened
the ball with a book of "reminiscences;
whereat there is a radical reversal OF TING
old Biblical saying: "Oh, that mine enc /
my would write book" for the fact Of
the matter is nearly every prominent
man in the G. o. +. is now saying under
their breath: "What possessed the odd
man to go into this book publishing bus
mess, anyhow; it's not good political
form: it's not according to Gunther'
But the book is going through the. pres
and there is scarcely man of the
party who has his lightning rod in a per
pendicular position that is not anathe
matizing the senior senator from Ohio
who has the reputation when he gets
Overheated of sweating icicles for his I'D
timely and unpleasant publication.
Among the first of the aspirants who +
are actual or supposed presidential can /
didates to get dab from the brush care
fully dipped into this Ohio tar-pot 81
Little Bonnie Harrison" who wears ms (
grandfather's hat" And dirty litte
dab it is. He is accused-and how colby
the presentment is worded-ot purcnas 1
ing the vote of the great State of New
York in the Republican convention, a.
which Senator Sherman, like Brutus, mel
his Philippi, or like Napoleon his waite.
loo. And yet the statesman brother o. =
William Tecumseh does not mlnce DIS
words when he says that Little ben
nie'' bought the delegates of the greal
State of New York by promising tha
traitor, "Me Too Platt," the distrlDr
ton Of the Empire State Federal ofhces
The remarkable thing anent tins
charge is that though given to the worla
by it's author several weeks ago "Lituss
Bennie Harrison" opens not his moull
in explanation or denial of SO coldly plaSs
ing, one may even say bliZzardng,,
charge. 1t is, indeed, the "unkindes
cut" in the entire book, although Var
field, Blaine, Platt, Alger and Elkln7
each, like Job of old, receives sae
more or less in the vicinity of the .hiu
rib AS respects General Alger, L * +
lieve he is the only person among tls
living targets for Senator Sherman
venom who has rushed into print in DIS
own defense.
And such a defense as he makes. he
publishes letter from the late Gener.i,
William Tecumseh Sherman, which,
not spiced with sarcasm, as respects Ger
eral Ayers political aspirations and acs
I is simply a cynical arraignment of ever,
man who is so destitute of self-respeea.
as to permit himself to flourish orWI
| founder in 1.-THE dirty pool of party pOIr
tics" Furthermore, the charge maui
against General Alger by General Sher
mans brother was that Ayers treniu
had purchased votes in the conYentOan
in which Garfield sold the pass ,r ~
Brother john" whereat General VIZ
liam Tecumseh comforts General Az.
by the equivocal statement that dou y.
less he (AI.er) did not do more OF ; M
common and ordinary vote purcnaslius'
than the other fellows who were opera =,
ing in the convention circus. Algel a.
politicians run nowadays, may have
hibted an epidermis somewhat too llar \
skinned upon this public presentau.STs.
of Senator Sherman's charges; neveI~
less, he proved to the world that ne
possessed of the hide of q rhlnoce,.
when he has the gall to publish Gene.S
William T. Sherman's letter to hln nsE
as a vindication against those 1ran n"T;
brutal charges of the gallant gehei"
brother.