Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — FLAYED. [ARTICLE]

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John Sherman Soundly Scored by Gov. Hoadly for His Recent Dema* gogical Utterances. Time for the Shermans and the Forakers to Accept the Results of the War. The Administration of President Cleveland Has Won the Confidence of the People. Gov. Hoadly recently opened the Ohio campaign at Hamilton, in the presence of an immense assemblage, paying particular attention to John Sherman’s resurrection of the bloody shirt We make the following extracts from his masterly address: Two years ago I opened tn your midst the canvass which resulted in Democratic success. Surrounded now by the friends who gave me then the magnificent majority of 2,893 in this Gibraltar of Democracy, I ask for a renewed expression of confidence, and for an increased majority, which shall express with emphasis your opinion that Dem cratic success, as proved by results. Ineans not only good government but reform. Union, personal liberty, economy, no fraud, no disguises, no concealments, open dealing, and candid treatment of the pub- . lie in affairs—State and national. The Ohio election will express the opinion of the people upon my administration and that of the Sixty-sixth General Assembly. It is the first State election after the inauguration of ■ Cleveland and Hendricks. It will therefore be regarded as the expression of popular judgment upon the policies of the President and his advisers. Of these 1 ask your approval, confident that Democratic success means good government, State and national, which ought not to be rebuked by defeat. The‘leader of the Republicans of Ohio has carefully prepared the appeal of his party and sent it from the stump through the press to the country. He waves the bloody, shirt—he indorses the policy of alienation and hate -he seeks to transplant and cultivate in this country the feelings of the English aristocracy toward the Irish, to array section against section, to govern the South from the North as Dublin Castle governs Ireland, as a conquered province, and all this in the year of grace 1885, twenty vears and more afier the close of the war. The average lite of an ordinary generation is thirty years. Owing to the casualties of war, which cost our country at least a million lives, the duiation ot the generation now passing away has been less than this. Twenty-five years have elapsed since Mr. Lincoln’s election. Five-sixths, perhaps more, of the men who devised rebellion, the men who fought its battles and the men who overcame it, have passed away. The great civil and the great military leaders, Lincoln and Grant, both sleep in graves bedewed by the tears of the whole nation South and North: for both died with words upon their lips and feelings in their hearts ot “charity to all, malice toward none.” Seward and Sumner. Chase and Fessenden, Douglas and Stephens, Lee and Breckenridge, these are historic, not living names. Alone of the authors of rebellion. Jett Davis survives. Boys born when the war broke out have been voting for three years past. Boys bom after the war will vote next year. Boys too young to b ar arms are now mature men of thirty-five. There is a new South and a new North. A new generation, full of new life is at work. A very large portion of the people of the South have never seen a slave, and have lived ui.der no other regime but that of universal suffrage. Is it not time for the Shermans and the Forakers to accept the results of the war and no longer to continue in battles? Eight million bales of cotton, the probable crop of this year, is in sight. There are no idlers in the South, why croak in the North? White men and black men ar e side by side at work. The South is developing new industries, weaving cotton cloth, digging coal and iron, forging steel. God and nature, religion and the human heart, are the forces aeainst which Sherman and Foraker contend and Foster plots. To the policy of alienation, we oppose Union; for hate we substitute love; we welcome the new South and the old South, old men and boys, fathers and sons, not as allies merely in a crusade against the forces of nature, but as brothers in affection and blood. We bid them all, white and black, join us in the great march of Union and liberty, to the peaceful conquest of the future. “Let us have peace.” said Gen. Grant many years ago. His eyes at last saw it. “I have witnessed.” said his dying voice, “since my sickness, just what I have wished to see ever since the war—harmony and good feeling between sections.” And again, rejoicing in the present, he prophesied the future in words of glowing hope. “We may now well look forward to a perpetual peace at home, and a national strength that will screen us against any foreign •complication.” Let us then banish these unmanly fears of Southern wrong-doing, and cease to exaggerate occasional personal conflicts into wars of races. Danville and Copiah are worn out. Turn out some new grist, oh, grinders of the outrage mill I Home rule, and as little application of the "eternal principle of regulation” as is consistent with the greatest liberty of all, will in time cure all the ills of State and nation. Mr. Sherman will fail in his efforts to stir the dying embers of sectional animosity. Ohio has not forgotten what Gen. Garfield so well said: “The man who attempts to get up a political excitement in this country on the old sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support. The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of its leading thought, and that is the restoration of business, trad-, commerce, industry, sound political economy, fiard money, and honest payment of ail obligations and, the man who can add anything in the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes is a public benefactor.” The Solid Sou h! Have Senator Sherman and Judge Foraker forgotten that there was once a Bepublican Solid South, and what became of it •the South of Moses and Madison Wells, of Parson Brownlow, and Warmoth, of Dennis, "the lit .le giant of Alachua.” who invented tissue ballots; of the strumpet, Betty Higgins, and the chaplain who joined efforts to debauch the Legislature and bankrupt the treasury of Tennessee; the Solid South of Kellogg and Eliza linkston? But a few years ago every Soui hern State, except Kentucky, had a Republican Gover or and Legislature. Wh re are they now? Some in exile and some in prison, and their party, like Hans Ireitmann’s “barty," “all gone avay, in die Ewigkeif—fled away, as marsn miasma evaporates before the sun. Mr. Sherman is distressed because Lamar and Garland and Bayard, “two members of the Confederate Congress and one man who sympathized with them, are at the head of great departments of the Government.” Oh, yes! it -was well to put Mr. Key at the head of the Postoffice Department. One Confederate in the Cabinet was all right, but two—two are a lamentable concession to treason. No, not quite this, even. Ak rman was a propter Attorney General, and Key a most becoming Postmaster General, but two at a time, Garland and Lamar together—aye, there’s the rub. The tears of crocodlks are freely shed, as Sherman softly sings, “ Insatiate archer, would not one suffice?” Mosby, Madison Wells, Mahone, and Chalmers the guerrilla, the Returning Board, the repud ator and the Fort Pillow butcher, all these have had their garments washed, but Lawton and Jackson, Jonas and Lamar and Garlaud, the best and purest ot the (South, these to our Senator are the ungenerate children of the political Satan, untit to serve the republic. And Bayard, too, is a bug-a-boo with which to frighten Republicans—Bayard who “sympathized ” not quite so long, nor yet so f< ri•ougly as Logan, whose naw it used, to delight the New Io k Tribune to adorn with the prefix of “d. w.,” “dirty work John A. Logan.” because he boasted of 1 is delight in doing tne “dirty work ” of returning slaves to their masters. And all this that John Sherman may be Senator, or perb-.j s President, with our .beloved Foster for Senator, and that 1< oraker may be What can an opposition Senator do for Ohio? A chronic negative, a continuin ' scold, a runining sore of petty party complaint, is not what will best serve Ohio. Let us' put an equally

sound Democrat by the side of Henry B. Payne, to join him in generous support of Grover Cleveland, helping to settle the silver question, to settle the Mormon difficulty, to revise the tariff on the lines of principle stated In the Chicago Democratic platform, and to reform the civil service. Against Senator Sherman’s appeals for disunion, we set the good work of the Democratic party, its Ires dent and Cabinet, and their declared aims and purposes. I ask for re-election, not tor my own sake, but that it will be understood as Ohio’s indorsement of these. No doubt there are dissatisfied Democrats. Yes, and fortunately there are satisfied Republicans. How much better would either have felt, had Blaine and Logan triumphed? In January, 1863, Mr. Lincoln said to my friend M. D. Conway, “Most of us here present have nearly all our lives work ng in minorities, and may have got into a habit of being dissatisfied." Speaking at a jollification meeting in this city last November, I pleaded for generous confidence in our newly elected President, and that every Democrat, educated though he might have been for twenty-four years in opposition, should treat him with sympathy and guard against carping criticism. Leave that to Sherman and Foraker. Now, I ask for more. I solicit approval, not forbearance. Mr. Cleveland has held office six months. Congress has not been in session, yet much has been accomplished. The spirit of reform and economy has entered all the departments, useless offices and expenses have been done away, while the performance of duty, civil and military, has been enforced. The Government is not solicitous to provide such offices for pets, but to save money for the people and to keep the faith pledged in the platform. If the navy, which the Republican party destroyed, be restored, it is now certain that ft will be honestly done. Under this administration there will be no loose contracting, no jobs let at prices nominally low to be made high by extras or by scamping the work. Tne remnant of the national domain, which Democratic Presidents, Jefferson and Monroe and Polk, added to our territory, the residue which Republican extravagance has not wasted on corporations and favorites, is saved from cattle kings and other plunderers for the benefit of the people. No more assessments will be levied on the departments to carry elections; no more clerks will be dismissed because they refused to bulldoze the people at Congressional elections in the guise of Deputy Marshals; the Pension Bureau will never again be emptied of its officers to defeat a wounded Democratic soldier for Congress; there will be no more star-routa frauds; no more whisky rings; in short, a breath, a strong breeze of economy and honesty is blowing through all branches of the public service. No more wool will be drawn over the eyes of Ohio farmers by a tariff nominally high, but ingeniously leveled down at the Custom House by fraudulent invoicing. Mr. Sherman has recently boasted that he has converted Senator Morrill, of Vermont, to tife support of the wool tariff of 1867. But is Mr. Sherman sure of himself on this question? Is he certain that Ire will not again attempt its reduction, as he did in 1872? Is he sure that in his anxiety to secure other tariff reductions he will never again give the casting vote in favor of reducing the wool tariff, rather than lose the opportunity to cut down duties on other articles as he did in 1883? Is ho sure that if ever elected President he will not, as Piesident Arthur did in 1882, recommend "a substantial reduction” in the duty “on wool?” The three great Republican scare-crows have been taken in for good, and relegated to the ragbag and the dust-heap. There will be no payment of the rebel debt, no pensions to rebel solders, no freedmen reduced to slavery. The results of the war, which Hancock and Ward, Warner and Mogan, Ewing and Rice, and thousands of other Ohio Democrats fought to secure, will be preserved intact. Here in Butler County you have a memorable instance of the beauties of Republican professions. Except for a short time under Andrew Johnson there has not been a moment since the close of the war when Ferdinand Vandeveer, the hero of two wars, could be permitted to enter the civil service of his country. He was welcomed to fight in Mexico, was welcomed to fight the rebellion, honored, promoted, made a Brigadier General. He was invited to shed his Democratic blood ior his twice imperiled country. Against foreign foes and domestic tra tors he freely exposed his life, but under a Republican President he has not been good enough to be even a whisky gauger. Thank God, Grover Cleveland has destroyed all this. Democrats, who for twenty years have only been considered tit to be enlisted as private soldiers at sl3 a month, are now, at least occasionally, promoted from hard tack and sowbelly to the oysters and champagne of official position. At last it has become possible for the majority of the American people, the majority not in numbers merely, but in all that makes a nation great in intelligence, virtue, sobriety, right thinking, and right living, to see an officeholder occasionally at least selected from their midst. Doubtless Mr. Cleveland seems to some to move too slowly, but remember he is the head of a Government, not of a machine for the distribution of spoils. Of one thing I am sure, and that is that while maintaining and executing in all their force, as is his duty, every law he finds upon the statute book, including the law for the reform of the civil service he will in time till every office involving political action by men believing in the Chicago Democratic platform of 1881, and in sympathy with Democratic progress. For twenty years the Republican party of Ohio and the nation has proved by its action that its single idea of the public service has been that no Democrat should hold any civil office whatever, business or political, and that every public place, great and small, should be tilled by a partisan Republican, put there because, and only becasue, he was a partisan Republican. All this is now reversed, and “the mourners go about the streets." It is sweet, it is delicious, brethren, to hear the Republican lamentation, as expressed by John Sherman, who worked the Treasury Department for all it was worth in ltßu to nominate himself for President. and who never recommended a Democrat for civil office in his life, that the impartial, non-partisan civil service ot our country is in danger! Why, John, brother John, there is a beam in thine own eye. Do I say beam? Yes; a cord of wood, a whole forest. Go thou and pluck it out, then come, and after we have done our share of official duty we will rub out our little motes, and listen to your complaints. And whiie these reforms have been in progress, the country has not gone to the “demnition bow-wows," as every Republican orator has prophesied for a dozen years past. If that great and wise leader of the Democratic party, Samuel J. Tilden, that clearsighted reformer, before the electric light of whose penetrating vision fraud and waste shrunk and slunk into hiding places and exile, or was driven •to prison, were inaugurated, the country would be ruined—so prophesied our Republican Cassandras; theret ore, I lorida and Louisiana, the latter with Mr. Sherman’s own personal connivance, were robbed ot their electoral votes, and the Government for four years handed over to a usurper. Butlo! the hour has come and the man. Democracy has effectually prevailed at last, and where is the calamity? What has becomeof tne disaster? Business reviving, stocks advancing, are th se the tokens of distress? True, times are still hard, made so by Republican misgovernment. Rome was not built in a day or a year. It is only s x months since the Republicans lost power. It'may be that the revivals of industry we read ot are not the results of Democratic succ ss. Th ci"? are at any rate coincident. Republi an proph'sy is falslti* d, and Republican prophets silenced. Let us take heart, and with renewed laith in Democratic prim iples. and doubled courage, with generous confidence, continue our support of Piesident C.eveland. sure and secure that his inflexible integiity, his invincible courage, his persistent labor, supported by the counselsand wise legislation of a Democratic House of Representatives this year, and a Democratic Senate and House in 1887, will richly reward h.s, their, and our endeavors. The country will thus enter ui on a career of prosperity such as has attended other Democratic triumphs, such as came in with Jefferson, Mad son, und Monroe, under whose administration all political opposit on to the Democracy ceased, and who gave to the country Louisiana and Mississi] pi, the territory west of the Mississippi, and Florida, or with Jackson, who paid the public debt, or with Polk, who added Texas and California to the national domain. And at the election of 1888 Democrats and Republicans alike will have the satisfaction of v. ting lor the man of their choice, nnawed by ruffians drawn from the slums ot distant States and Term ones, armed with bull-dog pistol* and headed by 1 oweil Clayton, Dudley, Rathbone and Lot Wright. Marshal I rner is a Democrat and a gt ntleman, and h s deputi s will be gentlemen, and they will repel, n t actively aid the happy family of Republican colonizers who may be then enjoying the hospitality of Hog. head John.