Year: 1879

O6AO 1oU6MANs


It is now certain that the Republicans
have carried both branches of the Ohio
legislature, and it is therefore an impos-
sibility for Allen G. Thurman to be re-
turned to the United States senate, on
the expiration of his term in March, '8l.
We can therefore say that Senator
Thurman is politically dead; and, in our
connection with American politics for
five-and. thirty years, We never recorded
an event with more satisfaction. When
he entered the senate, nearly twelve
years ago, he enjoyed the reputation of
an able jurist and also that of an honest
politician. He has gradually been de-
scending lower and lower in political
morality under the hope Of the ag-
grandizement of himself or his party
until he has sunk to such a depth of
degradation that we may say there is not
more dishonest politician in the United
States senate.


Before the leprosy of the Greenback
delusion spread over the land, Thurman
was as true and unflinching an advocate
Of honest money as any man who sat in
that senate; but when he saw there was
a possibility of aggrandizing himself by
deserting the sound financial principles
of Jefferson and Jackson, he hesitated
not q moment, but drifted into the
theory of almost an unlimited issue of
government paper, and at the same time
urged a series of measures which would
have destroyed the national banks, and
left the people only with government
currency and the issues of the exploded
state bank system.


When any proposition was made
in congress for a debased coinage
of silver or for a lightweight
dollar, not one Democrat dove lower
and deeper than this same Allan
Thurman, in order to catch the votes of
the thousands of people in Ohio and
elsewhere, who were supposed TO favor
anything good or bad in the form of
currency. Dan Voorhees, and he were
often found voting together for the
EXTREMIST and widest financial measures
which could be proposed. This was the
more astounding to the country, be-
cause this same Allan Thurman had
previously often placed his votes on
the same record and on the same side of
finance as that of John Sherman, our
present secretary of the treasury. Thoee
who heard Thurman speak in the senate
were convinced that he was not honest
in his expressed convictions, but that he
was playing as base game for the presi-
dency, as American politician ever
engaged in.


The industrial interests of the country
will also never forget that he more than
any other Democratic senator, urged q
number of measures at the close of the
March session in '79 which prevented
the passage of the appropriation bills,
and thus enforced the call for an extra
fffesiGe ffffeesqiGGeently advocated monstreus doc
trine that congress had the right to
compel the president to sign the repeal
of law obnoxious to that body, but
which the president approved, by with:
holding supplies to carry on the national
administration In order to please his
southern supporters he urged congress to
refuse supplies until Tie ProsluOut h"I
consented to the repeal of the present
federal election law, which law is an
a special grievance to the rifle and shot
gun clubs in the southern states. He
failed in this congressional bull-dozing
through the firmness of President Hayes.


Thurman has also surrounded himself
with some of the most disreputable poll
ticians in Ohio, with persons of such
reckless and unprincipled characters in
political cheating, that no high-ninded
tstesman would have any associations
with them. Pendleton has been bad in
finance, but his associations are respect
able. Thurman has become equally
bad in finance, but his associations are
discreditable. II is blessed thing tor
the country that the political career OF
this man is ended.


It is said there is q God in heaven.
We believe also there is q God in poll
tics, and this God is the avenging retri.
button of an aroused and outraged


people upon a recre.nt and faithless


representative when they have IN oppor'


tunity to pronounce upon his misdeeds'
-lNil,uaukee Eocs;,g Wisconsin.