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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1895 25 ~ JouNSH S (3 ERMANSECOL ‘:[‘LA,/; ) g Lt Th Presidential e Ohio Statesman Tells How He Lost the| Nomination in 1888. He | \ Says a Corrupt Bargain Was Made Which Transferred the Vote of New York to Gen- eral Harrison. 1mES two weeks ago. ing © r in which it was y thrust upon the tatives November 5, 1877, by the intro- on- of .Bland’s bill E nage the 1 re its legal tender character. gust Belmont and others oted to show that bond-buyers were 1 of the and of s rent. of ¥ ur own and foreign countries, on the sii- stion. Iam not prepared at pre give any assurance as to what will & done in.Congress, nor of the on of xecutive Department. It is better to the matter stand as it is, awaiting without any committals whatever. ve faith to believe that all will come P I he out right, so far as the public credit i i, and w write you again when any- definite can be said.” 1 Noyember 29 Belmont wrote to Sher- thin, Arms of the Sherman Family. g letter containing the following ‘I need hardly assure you, at this late of my earnest solicitude for the suc- of the funding and resumption opera- tions, and of my personal deep regret, apart from all pecuniary considerations as a put 2 complete stop to all further sales of | 1t here and ts and banks 4 per cent bonds at pri in England. The capital on both sides of the Atlantic will not buy a bond at par in gold, when it is almost certain from the overwhelming vote in the House and the known attitude of the Sen- ate that a silver bill making the old silyer dollar a legal tender for all private and public obligations will pass both houses this winter. * * * The bonds are sell- ing at 99 to 99 in gold in open market, and it seems to me very doubtful policy to offer bonds by us to the public at this mo- ment and thus assist the advocates of the 6ld silver dollar by our apparent indiffer- ence to the injustice and dishonesty of the Bland bill.” The foregoing extracts may possess for Pacific Coast readers a peculiar interest, in showing the perfect harmony which gene- rally existed between the bond syndicates and the Treasury Department. Sherman’s first annual report as Secre- tary of the Treasury, December, 1877, pre- sented plans for the resumption of specie H apter of the second vol- | apter XXXI)dwellsupon the silver | ¢ of Repre- | ry, wrote to August | ent, both in | nember of the syndicate, to see this un- | fortunate situation of the silver question | first 1 nd ue of notes. As lafe as 187 tourists from the East arriving an Francisco would not get more than $16 or $17 in gold and silver for a $20 green- back. ‘“Letus resume specie payment,” was the ery of the country. The agitation bezan shortly after the war closed. Some | prophets said resumption could not take place in_fifty For many years Horace Greeley” hammered away in the New Y way to resume was to resume.”’ | John Shermar had unbounded faith in the intelligence of the American people, | | as well as confidence in the resources of the country. He did resume. For the | hievement of resumption, accomplished | ring his admi tion of the treasury, | 11 name with that of Hamilton. 1 The subs | y quent enactment of the Bland- | Allison silver law is referred to at great Allison | | length in the snceeeding chapte { amended the Blard bill in the the President vetoed it. 1 ! a law despite the President L his book Sherman say agree with the | bill, for the rad dent in his veto of the | 1 changes made in its terms in the Scnate had greatly changed | its effects and tenor. * ¥ He hon- | | estly believed that it wounld greatly dis- Te: 1 | turb the public credit to make a legai ten- der for all amounts, of a dollar, the | bullion in which was not of equal com- { mercial value to the gold doilar.” Several pages of the book are devoted to jaTeview of the New York Custom-house | menagement and the appointments which | provoked the clash between Hayes and | Conkling. In October, 1877, the President sent to the Senate the nominations of odore Roosevelt to succeed Arthur as ilector, Edwin A. Merritt to succeed | George A. Sharpe as_Surveyor, and L. B. | Prince to succeed A. B. Cornell as Naval Officer. Allof these were rejected by the | Senate. Of Conkling’s conduct Sherman | say No doubt the Democratic majority in the Senate might defend themselves with political reasons, but the motive of Mr. | Conkling was hostility to President Hayes | and his inborn desire to domineer. The chief embarrassment fell upon me. I | wished to execute the reforms needed in tize Collector’s office, but could not do it without his consent. The co-operation re- quired was not given and the office was I;cld in pronounced ¢ontempt of the Presi- | dent.” In 1879 when names again went to the | Senate, Sherman had made up his mind to resign if the nominations were not con- firmed. He wrote a letter to Allison, of | which the following is an extract: “Surely | you and Windom, who have the courage of your convictions, shou!d put a stop to this foolish and unnecessary warfare. Three or four men who will teli Conxling squarely that while you are his friends, you will not injure our party and our cause, would put a stop to this business. Arthurwill not go back into the office. The contest will Le continued, and the only result oi all this foolish madness will be to compel a Re- publican administration to_appeal to a Democratic Senate for confirmation of a Collector in New York. Itisa most fatal mistake.” spite the vigorous effort of Conkling to | defeat the nominations confirmation was secured. Later on, as all know, Conkling ! got even by heving Arthur nominated for | | | | | | Vice-President. The Garfield tragedy ulti- | mately brought Arthur to the White House. In bsequent pages b‘hermnn‘ reviews this ascendency. * Running through all this narrativeis the | thread of resumpticn. The steady ad- | vance to a permanent specie basis is noted at length. Obviously Sherman regards this achievement with profound satisfac- | tion. He quotes many of the ?redictinns of failure. He mentions the alleged offer of Mr. Tappan, a New York bank presi- dent, to pay $50,000 to stand at the head of the line when the Government began to pay out gold; and the assertion that he could put in $29,000000 United States bonds, Eeld by the New York banks, break the Government and take out all the | gold. # On the 1st of January, when the resump- tion act went into effect, the aggregate amount of gold coin and bullion in the treasury exceeded $140,000,000. United States notes when presented were re- deemed in gold coin, but instead of the notes being presented for redemption, gold coin in exchange for them was de- posited, thus increasing the gold in the treasury. payment. The currency of the Urited States had been at great discount since the In 1878 an Ohio man wrote to Sherman | perman | wish " LECTIONS suggesting him as a candidate for the Presidency. Here at least we have the inception of the Sherman boom, although it is well known to many army officers and veterans of the war that General W. T. Sherman bad been talking of “John’’ for President long before 1878, Every time that a suggestion was made for the general to enter politics he spoke of his brother John as available. Senator John was very cov when the Presidential wooing came. He wrote to the Obio man: ‘“‘The contingency that you refer to with which my name is con- nected is still too remote to talk about. I never supposed that a person occupying my office, open to attack and compelled no to so many persons, could be sufficiently popular to justify any party in running him for the Presidency, and therefore I have always dismissed such sug- gestions as the kindly compliments of the hour. * * * The tendency of public cpinion is evidently toward General Grant, whose absence and good conduct are in his favor, while the invoiuntary feeling of Re- Eublicnns would be in favor of nominating im as a remonstrance against the violence in the South and notice that it must end.” The allusion to Grant’s good conduct in the foregoing letter will be understood as | meaning that the general ‘‘turned down'’ his wine-glasses at the dinner-table, signi- fying to the waiters that he wanted none. e so turned his glasses at the celebrated Palace Hotel banquet in San Francisco. The book tells how the phrase “mend- | ing fences”” became a political byword. Sherman said in a speech at Mansfield, Ohio: I found when I arrived at my old home that the papers said that I came West seeking the nomination for Gov- ernor. I came purely on private busi- ness—to repair my fences and look after neglected property.” The reporters seized upon the reference to fences and construed it as having a political significance. Reference to William M. Evarts’ keen wit is thus made in the book: Among the early meetings of the Cabinet President Hayes announced three or four personal appointments that he intended to make, mainly in the foreign service, in the de- partment of which Mr. Evarts was the head. Evarts seemed to be surprised at these appoin and after some pause he said: *Mr. nt, 1 have never had the good fortune Western rese of Ohio, of For a mo- Pres 10 see the ‘great which we have heard so much.” ment Hayes did not perceive the quiet sarcasm of Mr. g that he should huve been consulted about these nominations before they were an- nounced. We all caught the idea and the President joined heartily in the laughter. Mr. Evarts is not only a man of keen wit, but lawyer and able advocate. Ilearned, ciation with him in the Cabinet, and subsequently in_the Senate as a member of the Commitiee on Foreign Rela- tions, to respect and love him. In January, 1880, Sherman’s boom for the Presidency was fairly launched. The other Grant and James G. Blaine. Of the conven- tion which met in Chicago June 2, 1880, the book says: Four days were occupied in perfecting the organization and the nomination ot candidates for President. During this tim & minority of nine of the delegation of Ohio ounced their determination to vote for Blaine. This was 2 fatal move for Blaine, and tedly led to his defeat, Nearly four- fifths of the delegation were in favor of my nomination, in pursuance of the expre: arts, which was a polite expression of | leading candidates were General | of the Ohio convention, but they were | alliriendly to Bisine, and whenever it should | have become apparent that my nomination was impractical, the whole delegation could o have bee ried for him without a sion, and thus have secured his nomina- tion. The action of these nine delegates, who | refused to carry out the wishes of the State | convention, prevented the possibility of the vote of Ohio being cast for Mr. Blaine. Long before the convention I had declared in_a published interview that “Blaineis a splendid man, able and eminently fit for President. 1f nominated he will find no one giving him a_heart‘er support than myself.” We were connected by early ties of association and kinship and had been and were then warm Blaine, when confident of the “To no living man owe a deeper debt of than to John Sherman for giving esumption with all its blessings. As them | Secretary of the Treasury he has been the suc- cess of the age.” The Chicago convention nominated Gar- field, and this reference is made in the book to the convention: In time I became thoroughly advised of what occurred at the Chicago convention and had be- | come entirely reconciled to the sesult, though | meant in good faith to support my nomination. | of pain, and he begged to be taken from i wonld be the candidate for the Vice-Presi- dcncg, and had frequently said to mutual friends that this was my desire. The contin- gency of Garfield's nomination I did not con- sider, for I supposed that_as he was secure in the Senate for six years he would not desire the Presidential nomination, but as it has come to him without his seli-seeking it is hon- orable and right and I have no eause of com- plaint. If I believed that he had used the po- sition that I gave him to supplant me I would consider it _dishouorable aud would not sup- port him; but, while such statements have been made to me, 1feel bound to say that I have never seen nor heard from credible sources any ground for such an imputation, and, therefore, he shall have my earnest and hearty support. There are one or two features of this canvass that leave a painful impression upon me. The first is that the opposition to me in Ohio was unreasonable, without cause, either springing from corrupt or bad motives, or from such trivial causes as would scarcely justify the pouting of & schoolboy. I receive your frank statement with confi- dence and act upon it, will treat you as of old, with hearty good will and respect, and will give no further credence to the stories I hear. You can have no knowledze of the extent of the accusations that have been made against you. Asan exampleof the frank and ontspoken style of the book the following estimate of Garfield may be cited: I knew Garfield well. From his early advent in 1861 in the Legislature of Ohio, when I was a candidate for the Senate, to the day of his death I had every opportunity to study his character. He was & large, well-developed, handsome man, with a pleasing address and a natural gift for oratory. Many of his speeches were models of eloquence. These (}un ties nat- urally made him popular. But his will power was not equal to bis personal magnetism, He changed his mind and honestly veered from throughout the civilized world. To rise to such & height as he had_attained and then to be- come the victim of such a wretch was a calamity that excited profound sympathy for the President and unusual detestation for the murderer. The personal qualities of Garfield have been already mentioned. After hisun- timely death his enemies became silent. At this distance of time we can properly fix his lace in the calendar of those who have gone fore. In many respects Garfield waslike Blaine, but in his personal intercourse with men and in the power of will he was not the equal of Blaine, while in style of oratory, in imagery and expression he was superior to him. Both were eminent in their day and gen- eration. They were my juniors about eight years, yet they lived long enough to perma- nently stamp their names upon the history of their country. Speaking of himself the Senator men- tions that at the beginning of the Arthur administration he was the object of more abuse and vituperation than ever before orsince. “The fact that the new admin- istration of Arthur was not friendly to me was no doubt the partial cause of the abuse. I was blamed for certain irregu- larities in the disbursement of the con- tingent fund of the treasury, although the accounts of that funa were by law | approved by the chief clerk of the-depart- ment and were settled by the accounting | ofticers without ever coming under my | supervision, and the disbursement had | been made by a custodian who was in the | department before I entered it. My wife | was more annoyed than I with the petty | charges which she knew were false, but which I did not dignify by denying.” Sherman in his book quotes the perora- tion of Blaine in the Garfield eulogy, and adds: “Blaine died January 27, 1893. Who THE LATE HON. JAMES G. [From a photograph approved by his family.} e BLAINE. admitted by his warmest frienas. During the trying period between his election and inaug ration his opinions wavered, but Blaine, hav- ing siuilar personal qualitfes, but a stronger will, gained a power When I proposed to him to be a delegate at large to tke Chicago convention, he no doubt When his own nomination seemed probable, he acquiesced in, and perhaps contributed to, if, but aiter his election he was chiefly guided by his brilliant Secretary of State. “TRere was & Siiking contrast between the ersonal qualities of Garfield and Hayes. {ayes wasa modest man, but a very able one. He had none of the brilliant qualities of his successor, but his judgment was always sound, and his opinion when once formed was stable and consistent. Among the multitude of public men I have met I have known no one who held a higher sense of his duty to his country and more faithfully discharged tha Hayes. He came into his great office with the prejudice of a powerful party sgainst him, caused by a close and disputed election. This was unjust to him, for the decision was made by & tribunal ereated mainly by its representa- tives. He went out of the office at the close of his term with the hearty respect of the Ameri- | can people, and his sdministration may be THE LATE PRESIDENT JANES A, GARFIELD, [From a photograph.] e L frequently afterwara I heard incidents and de- | placed as Imbn% the most beneficial and satis- | his! tails which occasioned me great pain and | Iactory in the which seemed to establish the want of sin- cerity on the part of some of the delegates, and tended to show that for some time before the meeting of the convention the nomination of General Garfield had been agreed upon. After its close 1 had numerous letters from delegates from other States, complaining bitterly of the conduct of the Ohio delegation and giving this as a reason why they had not voted for me. Iwas assured that large portions of the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and other a ions had notified Governor whenever their vote was required, but no such request came {from him. The matter had been made the subject of public discussion in the newspapers. 1was content with the result, but Vas Gebpiy wounded by what I conld mof but regard as a breach of faith on the part of some of the Ohio delegation, and especially of Gov- ernor Foster, who had been fullyadvised of my feelings in regard to his course. I received a letter from him on the 23d of June answering the allegations that had been publicly made in regard to him, and explaining his action. Ina letter to Charles W. Foster Sher- man wrote: I had always looked with great favor upon the contingency thatif I was not nominated after a fair and full trial and Blaine was. you v were ready to vote for me | tory of the Republic. Several pages of the volume relate to a correspondence which passea between the aunthor and Wade Hampton of South Caro- lina. Of this correspondence the book says: This correspondence excited a good desj of atiention, and broke off all social relations be- tween us. ‘We afterward served for many years in the Senate together, but had no interconrse with each other exco}zt formal recognition while I was President of the Senate. Ialways regretted this, for I did not feel the slightest enmity to General Humrton. and recognized the fact that while enjoying the office he held a8 the result of the crimes oi the klan, yet he and his colleague, M. C. Butler, were among the most conservative and agreeable gentle- menin the Senate, and the offenses with which Iconnected his name were jcommitted by his constituents and not by himself. The resignation of Conkling and Platt is ngentionedg briefly. Sherman is satisfied to simply say that it was fortunate for the country that the Legislature of New York elected E. C. Lndnham and Warner Miller in the place of Conkling and Platt. The death of Garfield by the hand of a half- crazy crank created a profound impression one impulse to another. This, I think, will be | now ul influence with him. | duty than President | | living could pronounce such a eulogy?” This is the quotation from Blaine's eulogy As the end drew near his early craving for | the sea returned. The stately mension of | power had been to him the wearisome hosp! | prison walls: from iis oppressive, stifling ai | from its homelessness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die as God should will within sight of its heaving billows; within sound of its manifold voices. With wan, fe- yered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze he looked out wistfully upon the ocean’s chang- | ing_wonders; on its far sails whitening in the | morning light; on its restless waves, rolling | shoreward to break and die beneath the noon- day sun; on the red clouds ofevening, arching | 1ow to the horizon; on the serene and shining | pathway of the stars. Let us think that his dying eyes rend a mystic meaning which only | the rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a further shore and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning. The campaign of 1884, in which Blaine and Logan were the Republican nominees, was an active one for John Sherman. He took a vigorous part in the support of the Republican ticket, ana delivered his first speech in Fanenil Hall. *I was deeply impressed with the his- torical associations of the place, recalling the Revolutionary scenes that had oc- curred there, and Daniel Webster and the great men whose voices had been heard within its walls.” ‘While in Springfield I heard of the unfortun- ate remark of Dr. Burchard to Blaine about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,” and felt that the effect would be to offend a consider- able portion of the Irish voters who had been very friendly to Blaine. After that incident I met Mr. Blaine &t the Chickering Hail meet- ing, and went with him to Brooklyn, where we spoke together at the Academy of Musie. The election, & few days afferward, resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket. The electoral vote of New York was cast for Cleve- land and Hendricks. It was believed at the time that this result s produced by fraudu- lent voting in New York City; but the returns were formal, and there was no way in which the election could be contested. John Sherman came to San Francisco in 1885, bearing this letter of introduction: ST. Louts, , May 3, 1885, Hon. F. F. Low, Anglo-California Bank—DEAR Sik: My brother John, the Senator, is on the point of starting for San Francisco, via the Southern route, and intends to come back by the north. He will be in your city some days and I am anxious you should become ac- quainted, also that he' should meet your wife and daughter. If you are witn the Pacific Club please intro- duce him to some of the old set—Hoffman, Tevis, Hn%gin. Bowie, ete. Nearly all my old banking iriends have passed away, but I am sure he would be pleased to meet Alvord and Brown of the Bank of California, and also Flood of the Nevada Bank. Truly your {riend, W.T.SHERMAN, The Senator arrived at the Palace Hotel on May 18. He visited General Pope, Sen- ator John F. Miller, and was tendered a public reception by the Chamber of Com- merce. He was entertained at the Dirigo Club by W. W. Morrow and Major Cham- berlain. Regarding interviewers the annexed pfl;gruph contains the Senator’s estimate of them: A club called the Sherman Club had been organized at Mansfleld, and soon aiter my re- turn, having been invited to attend it, Idid s0, and made a brief political address. During this month I was visited by many interviewers, and while sometimes their calls were inoppor- tune, yet I uniformly received tbem, answered their questions and furnished them any infor- mation in my power, I knew that they were seeking information, not for their own con- Venience, but te gratify a public interest, and, therefore, 1 was entirely willing to answer such questions as wre put to me. Thecase ‘was very rare where 1 was misrepresentea, and then it was either unixtentional or to brighten a story or to exaggerate a fact. I recall one in- terview in respect to courts of arbitration and the universal labor question. l\g opinions were expressed offhand, and, although not taken down at the time by the ‘nunlewer, my words uttered during & half hour’s interview were quoted with great exactness. I know this is not the common opinion in respect to tlie interviewer, and in some cases gross mis- representations are made, but in the very few instances where this has occurred in my’ ex%e- rience I have always carefully remembered the reporters who made them, and declined any further interview with the In July, 1887, Senator Sherman was in the field again as candidate for the Presi- dency. He writes in his book: “The names of Blaine and myself were con- stantly mentioned in connection with that office, and others were named. I was re- peatedly written to and talked to about it, and uniformly said to warm pemmi T friends that in view of my experience at previous National conventions I would not be a candidate without the support of a | united delegation from Ohio and the unanimous indorsement of a Siate conven- tion.”” The Senator secured the unquali- fied indorsement of the Ohio Convention and went into the contest with that | strength behind him. The convention met at Chicago on the 29th of June. T was nominated by General D. H. Hastings of Penusylvania in a speech of re- markable power and eloquence. . . n Saturday evening I was telegraphed by differ- ent persons that I would certainly be nom- inated on Monday. That was the confident belief in Washington. On Monday, the 25th of June,I did not an- | ticipate a chenge on the first ballot from the | last one on faturday. I did expect, from my | dispatches, that the nomination would be made that' day and in my favor, but, as the re- | sult proved, an arrangement had been made on Sunday that practically secured the nomi- nation of General Harrison. This became ob- | vious in the course of the vote on Monday, and, | as Harrison was practically assured of the | nomination, Pennsylvania voted solid for him | and ended the contest. From the best information I could gather from many persons with whom I conversed, I have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that T was defeated for the nomination by New York. 1 was assured before the meeting of the convention that I would have six votes from the beginning from that State, and could rea- sonably hope for a large addition to_that vote | in the progress of the balloting. Instead of | this I did not receive a single vote, although | three or more of the delegates had been dis- | tinctly selected in my favor and had given pledges to their constifuents that they would vote for me, but they did not on a single ballot do so, except I was advised that at one ballot one of them yoted for me. I believed then, as I believe now, that one of the delegates from the State of New York prac- tically controlled the whole delegation, and that & corrupt bargain was made on Sunday \ihich, transferred the great body of the vote of New York to General Harrison and thus led to his nomination. It is to the credit of General Harrison to say that if the reputed bargain | was made it was without his consent at the time, nor did he carry it into execution. 1 believe and had, as I thought, conclusive prooi that the friends of General’ Alger sub- stantially purchased the votes of many of the delegates from the Southern States who had | }»een instructed by their conventions to vote or me. Sherman and Harrison continued to be | warm friends, but the Ohio Senator never | forgave Governor Alger, as the following | extract from the book will show: The result of the nomination at Chicago did not in the least disturb my equanimity or my allegiance to the great party to which I be- longed and for the success of which I have d e y life since 1854. 7 listened with co plaisance to the explanations made as to the wavering of the Ohlo delegation on the Satnr- day previous to the nomination and as to the unexpected action of the New York delegation and the curious reasoning which held them together in the hope that they could persuade their leader to_vote for me. The only feeling of resentment I entertained was in regard to the action of the friends of Governor Alger in | teqnpiing with money poor negroes to violate | the instructions of thelr constituents. Chapter LVII of the Senator's Recol- lections is devoted to a history of the Sher- man silver law. The legislation in this re- gard is familiar to Pacific Coast readers. Of the purchasing clause the book says: Contrary to the expectation of the friends of silver it steadily declined in market value. The compulsory purchase of the enormos aggregate of 54,000,000 ounces, or 225 2250 tous troy, each vear, did not maintain the market valiue of silver, but it steadily declined so that the silver purchased each year entailed an annual loss of more than $10,000,000. When the result became apparent I was | anxious to arrest the purchase of silver, and [ never could comprehend why any ome not directly interested in the mining of silver conld favor a policy involving so heavy a loss to the people of the United States. Long before the second election of Mr. Cleveland [ advocatea | the repeal of what became known as the “Sher- | man act,” and heartily supported and voted for the repeal he recommended. | John Sherman is a consistent advocate | of a canal across the isthmus to connect | the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Delay in the work is thus explained, but the ‘“‘true inwardness” is not revealed : By the treaty negotiated in 1884 between the United States and Nicaragua, the canal was to be built by the United States. This treaty was | sent to the Senate on December 10, 1884, by | President Arthur, who, in_ strong and earnest | language, recommended its ratification. It | had been frequently debated, but was still | pending in the Senate when Mr. Cleveland be- | came President. 1 do not feel at liberty to | | tion were invested in the United States. state the causes of delay nor the ground taken, nor the votes given either for or against it, as the injunction of secrecy in respect to it hag not been removed, but I have regarded as a misfortune its practical defeat by the want of two-thirds vote required by the constitution ratify a treaty. The terms granted in it by icaragua were liberal in the broadest sense: The complete control of the canal and its ap- purtenances and the manner of its (nr.s;gll;‘c. o conaitions proposed would have made it anin- ternational work of great importance to ail commercial natior, while ample authority . was reserved on the wart of the United States to protect its investi\ent with tolls suflicient to pay the interest anc refund the principal. At the called sessicn of March, 1885, Mr. Cleveland withdrew the treaty, not from ition to its general purpases, but be- as he stated in his annual message in mber, 1885, it was “coupled with absolute and unlimited engagements to. defend the territorial integrity of the States where such interesis lie.” He held that this clause was an “entangling alliance,” incousistent with the declared policy of the United States.”” This objection to the treaty could have been easily removed by negotiation, as Mr. Bayard, a member of the Senate when the treaty was | pending and Secretary of State under Prese. dent Cleveland, very well knew. Thus, by an unfortunate division in the Senate and the action of the President, the construction of the canal by the United States was prevented. Subsequently, in 1887, concessions were made by Nicaragua and Cosfa Rica to & private asso- ciation of citizens of the United States, which led to the incorporation by Congress of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. The sixth election of John Sherman to the United States Senate took place in the Ohio Legislature in Jauuary, 1892. His term wi]Fexpire March 4, 1899. ‘The Minneapolis convention, at which | Harrison was renominated for the Presi- dency, is thus reviewed : During the spring and summer of 1892, rior to the renomination of General Harrison for President and Whnitelaw Reld for Vice- President, the choice of candidates was the general subject of comment. A good deal of opposition to General Harrison was devesoped, mainly, I think, from his cold and abrupt | manners in his intercourse with those who had business with him. His ability and integ- | rity were conceded, but he was not inany | sense popular. This was apparent especially II; Hew York, the State that nominated him in 1888. During all the period mentioned many names were canvassed, mine among others, but I uniformiy declined to be a candidate, and said if' I had a vote in the convention it would be cast for Herrison. Some of his friends, especially Charles Foster, complained in published interviews that I had not faken a more active part in :ecurlu% his nomination, From later developments I became satisied that Harrison could not be elected; that Piatt and a powerful v York intluence would de- feat him if nominated. I therefore preferred ihe nomination of a new man, such as William MeKinley, but he had committed himself to Harrison, and, according to my code of honor, finuld notaccept a nomination even if tendere im. Sherman adds: nomination wise.” On the 16th of June, 1894, I was notified by William E. Spencer, the experienced journal clerk of the Senate, that I thatday had reached a term of service in the Senate equal in length to that of Thomas Benton, whose service had previously held first rank in duration, cover- ing the period from December 6, 1821, to March 3, 1851, making 29 years, 2 months and 27 days. Ihad entered the Senate March 23, 1861, and served_continuously until March 8, 1877, making 15 years, 11 months and 15 days, when I entered the Cabinet of President Hayes. My second term of service in the Sen- ate begau March 4,1881, and has continued until the present time. My service since June 16, 1894, 1s in excess of that of Benton. In closing his book Senator Sherman gives expression to this sentiment: *The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope that our people will be content with internal growth and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions. Our family of States 18 already large enough to create embar- rassment in the Sepate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions. Every new acquisition will create embarrassments. Canada and Mexico as independent republics will be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional States. The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others. If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strengtn and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.” “I did not think the NEW TO-DAY. e A A A A A e A A A~ t Has No Equal! REASON. The man or woman who buys an article to restore health should do so on the same plan that he or she would buy a watch for service, not for a toy. 2 “The sound, thrifty buyer makes his pur- chase on the established basis that a good article is cheap at a reasonable price, while a pooroneis dear at any price.” A. T. 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