The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-26
SHERWOOD ON ROOSEVELT.
The General Takes Hard Fall Out Of |
the Strenuous President.

General l. r. Sherwood, OF Toledo,
formerly of Canton, talked politics and
horse while in Columbus recently. The
political end of the conversation as
published in the Press Post. was as
| follows:
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
THAT is too large a question for an
off-hand talk in limited time" said the
general, "but have one matter in mind
that / am much impressed with, and
that is the plank in the Republican
platform that abandons the vital es-
sonce of the hfteentn amendment to the
constitution. The so-called manhood
suffrage guaranteed in this amendment
has, for over a quarter of century
been the best exploited and most vital
principle of the Republican faith. The
campaign orators maze their most elo-
quent perorations over the right of
man, no matter what might be the
color of his skin or his previous condi-
ton of servitude, to cast one ballot and
have that ballot counted. 1t has
claimed for at least a quarter of CEN
tury that the broadest advancement Of
the grand old party of moral ideas"
was that it had made the Declaration
Of Independence VITAL constitutional
force, sacred for all time.
II remember one sentence from Gar
field, a prescient-prophet of Republic
can text and sentiment Tor more than
decade before he was president. Here
it is, as l remember:
1--WE took the unlettered black
man and broke his shackles, and
lifted him to the full stature of
manhood, and crowned him with
inalienable rights and anchored
those rights in the constitution to
stand for all time
And now, by specific declaration in
the last Chicago platform, the Republi-
can party officially abandons this vi
tai constitutional guaranty, and neith-
er promises nor proposes to enforce 1t
in the future, but gives notice that IL
any state ignores or violates it, that
the party of so-called moral ideas and
manhood suffrage proposes to strike
the colored population from the aggre-
gate and reduce that much the repre-
sentation of said state in congress and
the electoral college.
MANHOOD SUFFRAGE ABANDON
ED.
"The plea for manhood suffrage Is
abandoned-the southern negro is de-
liberately dropped from the political
forces of the country and left to his
fate in order to BUM up white mans
party in the south and increase the
power in congress anu in the electoral
college Of the Republican party north
"And let me say" said General Sher-
wood with much energy Of utterance,
that / am amazed that none of our
Democratic newspapers or our conti-
mental orators at the st. Louis con-
vention seem to have grasped or ex-
plotted this point. Not even the col
ored leaders of the so-called Liberty
party seem to have comprehended it,
when they indorsed Roosevelt They
only saw President Roosevelt breaking
bread with the humane prophet of
Tuskegee institute around the White
House mahogany And do you know
that this is the first time in the his
tory of the United States that any
party has agreed to ignore any provi-
sion of the constitution of the United
States. l trust Judge Parker, in his
coming letter of acceptance, will not
fail to call specific attention to this
brutal and cowardly lapse of duty"
General, what is your private opin-
ion of President Roosevelt as a man
and a brother?" was asked.
ROOSEVELT is PICTURESQUE.
Roosevelt is a very picturesque
character. He has strong points OF
vantage. Nature has done much for
him in physical way, and he has
courage, ambition, egotism and mental
vigor in abundance. He is also an ac-
ten some readable books of more or less
merit. But his ego overshadows every
thing Since John Hancock, he is the
greatest egotist the country has ever
seen In public life. Perhaps his most
fatal weakness Is his belief that he is
a soldier. The speech delivered by ex-
Governor Black of New York, nominat-
ing Roosevelt for president in the Chi
cago convention, which was carefully
edited in the White House, deslgnates
Roosevelt as man of blood and iron.
This is a fitting designation of an i'm
perialist-and was used by Carlyle to
depict the Iron Duke Bismark, who,
like Roosevelt, believed that govern
ment should rest upon force, and that
the insignia of that force is a spiked
helmet. Never before in the history
of this country, from George Washing
ton down to Roosevelt, has the desig-
nation, a man of blood and iron, been
applied to the chief executive of a
Christian republic. 1t is fitting
eulogy in the crown of king or. en-
peror or czar, and is only fitting to a
monarch who expects to rule by force,
and in whose being no benign spirit of