Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — Sherman’s Bloody-Shirt Harangue Condemned by Ohio Republicans. [ARTICLE]

Sherman’s Bloody-Shirt Harangue Condemned by Ohio Republicans.

Ex-Congressman Van Eaton, of Mississippi, originally an Illinois man, has the folio wing to say: “I was in Illinois when Sherman’s ‘bloody-shirt speech,’ delivered at Springfield, was published. I had gone to Jacksonville, 111., to attend the commencement of the college at which I graduated. Of .course, Sherman’s speech was for the time being the leading topic of discussion among the people. It was not indorsed by men with whom I conversed. Republicans as well as Democrats, in my hearing, condemned that speech as an attempt to revive that sectional bitterness which good men, North and South, desire to see eliminated from our politics. I went from Hlinois into Ohio, and there, in Sherman’s own State,lheardhis bloody-shirt harangue denounced by men of both parties. The people of the country have no sympathy with any such utterances. They are heartily tired of all war issues and will not tolerate them any longer.” “I have ascertained,” said Judge Van Eaton, “by special intercourse with the people of several States since I left home, that President Cleveland is steadily growing in popular favor. It has been a steady growth since he entered upon his faithful and zealous discharge of public duties. The advocates and supporters of good, honest and economical government are with him, no matter what may have been their past party affiliations. He is a man. of wonderful executive capacity. He rarely ever makes a blunder, and he has won the confidence of the people. They appreciate his sincere efforts to administer the government honestly and economically, and they will re-elect him. And I find that Mrs. Cleveland is admired as much as her husband. Even people who don’t know her and have never seen her are loud in her praise.”— Washington Cor. Chicago Times.