San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-19
C0NC0CTED BY THE DEMOCRAT
IC PRESS TO INJURE OHIO
REPUBLICANlSM.
The Grand Old Diplomat And States
man Will Prove Their State
mentS to be Lies, When He
Opens up The Ohio Sen
atOrial Campaign,

Nothing more contemplate is re-
corded in the annals of American
politics than the plot, for plot it un-
doubleday is, to attempt to force the
retirement from the cabinet Of Secre-
tary Sherman, by misrepresenting not
only his words and acts, but his men,
tai condition. Secretary Sherman was
never stronger mentally than he is
today, but even if it were true that his
mental faculties were beginning to feel
the advance of age, his long and hon.
orable public service would entitle
him to sympathy, in place of the
sneers and inuendoes which have
been and are being melted out to him
in the columns of the Democratic and
assistant Democratic press. OF course
everybody knows that the principal
object of these political ghouls is to
injure the Republican party in Ohio at
the coming election, but, as the aver
age of intelligence among Ohio vot-
ers is as high as that of the voters in
any state in the union, this nasty
plot will be more likely to react upon
its concoctors than to injure the Re-
publican party, or Secretary Sherman
The Ohio voters are likely to have an
opportunity to judge for themselves
whether the mental faculties of Mr.
Sherman are as strong as ever, as he
intends baking some speeches in
the state during the campaign, if his
health continues as good as it is now
No surprise was felt by those who
knew the animus of the charges made
against Constructor Bowles, who is in
charge of the Brooklyn Navy yard,
when Acting Secretary Roosevelt
made public his full approval of the
report of Commander C. III. Davis,
who made complete investigation of
all the charges against Mr.. Bowles.
Not only does Mr.. Roosevelt approve
of the report generating Mr.. Bowles,
but he adds that it was because Mr..
Bowles was doing his duty so faith.
fully and cOnscienciously that attacks
We're made upon him by those who
wished him to do otherwise.
Comment is head on all sides ON the
marked dissemination of all the prom
inent Democrats who talk for free sill.
yer. This has been specially notice.
able since silver commenced to de-
cline in price again. Among themsel-
yes heretofore ardent Democratic sill
verites have not hesitated to express
their admiration for the manner in
which Boss German hedged on the sill
yer question in the Maryland Demo
cratic platform, and there is very little
doubt that many of the National De-
mocratic leaders regard free silver
played out as battle cry, and are en-
gagged in hunting a new phrase which
they can use to bamboozle the voters.
The death of the free silver craze is
also regarded as the end of the candi-
dacy of Bryan. Meanwhile the coun-
try grows daily more prosperous, and
the people know that they owe their
returning prosperity to the faithful
ness with which President Mckinley
and the Republicans in Congress kept
the Democratic party to their ever
the promises made in the last National
Republican platform, and knowing it
are not liable to pay any serious
attention to any new expirament that
may be proposed by the beaten and
demoralized Democratic party. A
majority of the voters in 1892 trusted
lasting sorrow and four years of dis
tress, but they won't do it again.
Before rendering the opinion that
Secretary Gage has requested as to
whether the 10 per cent discriminating
duty provided in the Dingley tariff
for goods imported from Canada APP
piled TO goods from Japan or other
foreign countries invoiced to an Amer
lean port but received at that port
over a Canadian railroad, Attorney
General McKenna, by request gave
verbal hearings to ex-Secretary Car