Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — ARRANT DEMAGOGY. [ARTICLE]

ARRANT DEMAGOGY.

John Sherman’s Political Hypocrisy Exposed. [Washington special to Chicago Times.] Senator Sherman’s speech at Mount Gilead, at the opening of the Ohio campaign, has attracted considerable attention here. His endeavor to find fault with President Cleveland for appointing ex-Confederates to office naturally leads to a review of Senator Sherman’s own record in that respect, . and the showing is such as must convict him of arrant and unblushing hypocrisy in the judgment of any impartial person of any party. He says: “Two members of the Confederate Congress and one man who sympathized with them are at the head, of great departments of the Government" This charge quite naturally recalls the fact that Judge Key, an ex-Confederate, was the head of one of the great departments in that administration of which Senator Sherman had unlimited personal control. When Sherman and Key met at a Cabinet session, Sherman did not denounce him in any such terms as he now uses against Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland? When Gen. Grant nominated a Confederate Brigadier—Amos T. Akerman, of Georgia—for a place in his Cabinet, Senator John Sherman unhesitatingly voted for his confirmation. When the Ohio Senator referred so indigantjy in his Mount Gilead speech to the fact that “this country is now represented abroad by men who within twenty-five years were in arms to overthrow it,” he must have forgotten that he voted to confirm James L. Orr, of South Carolina, when he was appointed Minister to Russia by Gen. Grant, and Judge Settle as Minister to Peru, as well as that he was not without personal responsibility in the cases of Longstreet and Mosby. A list of the ex-Confederates given office by Republican Presidents, and accorded the favor of Sherman’s vote when before the Senate for confirmation, would fill two or three columns. Some of the names are worth recalling, however, as, for instance, William P. Canaday, whom Sherman helped to make Sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate. Hp was a Captain of Artillery in the Confederate army, and his force of employes includes many ex-Confederates. Judges Hughes of Virginia, Settle of North -Carolina, Hough and Boarman of Louisiana, and Humphreys of Alabama; District Attorneys Northup and Lusk •of North Caroliba, Walton and Chandler of Mississippi, and Leonard of Louisiana; Marshals Morphis and Hunt of Mississippi, and Wharton of Louisiana; Internal Revenue Collectors Young of North Carolina, and Henderson of Mississippi, make up but a tithe of the number of prominent officials who were appointed by Republican Presidents and confirmed by Republican Senators. Senator Sherman may not have voted for all who have been named, but he never protested against the appointment of any.