Show FORAKKR ATTACKS illERllA ExGovernor FORAKER in a speech at Athens 0 last week went long distance out of his way to give Senator SHERMAN a stab in the back Referring to the silver demonetizing act of 1S7d FORmER said The truth is that outside of a limited few nobody knew anything about the measure in Congress or outside of Congress The great mass of the American people joined in the demand for the remonetization of silver because of the impression universally prevailing that the act of demonetization if not surreptuously passed was a grave mistake Now without mentioning SHERMAN name here was a direct cut at the Senator and one that must make him wince as he has heretofore winced at similar allusions Senator SHERMAN was chairman of the finance committee in IS73 when the bill which demonetized silver but whose title concealed its purpose was passed It claimed to be an act for some routine changes in the treasury department depart-ment or something of that kind and was railroaded through Congress at the close of the session when everything every-thing was hurry and confusion Mr SHERMAN and the other members of the finance committee were the only ones who knew the true character of the measure and It is doubtfnl if any of them knew but the chairman Not till after the bill which demonetized silver had been signed by tho President and gone to the government printer was it I publicly known what its real intent Bud purpose wore and many of the most ro spectable Senators added to whom was President GRANT himself had to make tie humiliating acknowledgment that they were unaware of the weighty nature of 1i iIi o the measure Senator THDRMAN said there was not a single man in the Senate unless amember the finance committee who had the slightest idea it was even a squint towards demonetization Senator VOOR tIREs declared its enactment was as completely unknown to fourfifths of Congress itself as the presence of a burgler In a house at midnight is to its sleeping i inmates Mr BLAINE said I think now very clearly with the light before me that it was a great blunder I did not know anything that was in the bill at all And so many otber Congressmen expressed themselves The testimony is overwhelming that the act referred to was one of the most audacious auda-cious steals in the history of surreptitious legislation Governor FORAKER whose interest in-terest at the present time is to defeat SHER MAN for reelection deserves no credit for us introduction of this subject into the Ohio convass as he has for years condoned disreputable act but we are not displeased dis-pleased 1 that the matter has been so conspicuously spicuously brought before the public again Though dating so far back it has never been sufficiently ventilated j |