Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — IS OHIO FOR SHERMAN? [ARTICLE]

IS OHIO FOR SHERMAN?

General Boynton Says the People Wanted Him Continued. Otherwise the Legislature Would Not Have Been Carried By the Republicans. A Washington special of thel6t,h says: In an article in to-day’s Post < n the Ohio Senatorial outlook, and over his nameGen. 11. V. Boynton states that had it not been understood, prior to the recent election, that John Sherman would be reelected to tho Senate in the event of Republican success, notonly would the Hamilton county Republican candidates for the Legislature have failed oFelection, but the State would not have gone Republican, nor would the Republicans havo been in the legislative majority to-day. In other words. Gen. Boynton holds that the people of Ohio emphasized their desire for tho re-election of Senator Sherman by a general Republican victory; that Sherman was before the people at the polls as much as if his name had been on the ticket. Hd excoriates 0110 of Ohio's prominent Republicans by saying: “In a question of such vast moment to one of the foremost States of tho Union, where the issue is whether it shall maintain the lead in the Senate of tho United States or drop to the loast influential position there, it is no time to mince words, or to partially veil unpleasant facts under vague forms of expression. Beyond expression the Republicans of the Senate hold Gov. Foraker personally responsible, through the publication of the ballot-box scandal, for the loss of Ohio two years ago, and the consequent election of Brice. In this they bnt agree with What is known by the Republicans of Ohio and bolieved by the whole cruntry. This ballot-box scheme was universally regarded as the most stupid campaign concoction ever contrived in the history of politics, though it is not claimed that the Governor planned it. Anderson had a riot Sunday between 1 the civilians and a gang of drunken glassblowefa. Several members of the party were cut with knivesorotberwise injured. Thirty of the glass-blowers were jailed. A fireman was burned to death and two others badly injured at Cleveland, 0., Sunday.