Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — How Sherman Got Into Congress. [ARTICLE]

How Sherman Got Into Congress.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. < “These are days of tidal waves,” said Senator Sherman. “We had a marked change in 1892, and have just witnessed another. Do I recolleet anything equal to the last one? Oh, yes; we had the same thing hapg'en in 1854. Ohio elected a solid Republican delegation to Congress. The election then turned on the slavery question. The tidal wave carried me into congress. I was a young lawyer, and was nominated in a district with 3,000 democratic ma jority. I hoped, of course,to be elected, but I had no reason to feel confident. Few expected it. Yet I went in with three thousand more than enough to elect me.’’