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Show by a stric t party rotewhich fixed January Jan-uary 1. 1878, as the time that the rruv-ernmeot rruv-ernmeot would resume its promises to pay in actual money, and Mr. Siiei;-sian, Siiei;-sian, as strreVary of the treasury, cat-cutotl cat-cutotl its terms with exactness. A subject of democratic abuse and misrepresentation then, as always, he completely disappointed democratic predictions and desire that his act would prove a failure, and with Hayes, who foi;;'ht with him for resumption, he score. I a r:tnd victory therefor in his slate at its first election following the itt-'iffi! of his act, as he also did in the following year when Tildes was the democratic presidential candidate running on a platform which denounced the Siibitv.AN as :t "hindrance tti resumption'' re-sumption'' :iml demanded "its immediate imme-diate repeal,' without suggesting anything any-thing whatever as a substitute for it. Senator Sm: it man is now x years of age, still hah' and vigorous as a man of Bfty, and the country may fairly anticipate antici-pate seven years more of his valuable service in the halls of congress. OLD KKMIMI'TION. So John Sni'.RMAlf will succeed himself him-self as senior senator from Ohio for the term begiuning March 4, H(i:i, and ending end-ing six years later. It is an honormost worthily bestowed that he has received at tho hands of his follow citizens of the "Buckeye state, for his long life as a public servant has been most valuable to fall state ami thu nation. Entering public life in the ante-bellum days, ho had becomo a prominent factor therein even before tho outbreak of tho cit il war. llo Required national fame as early as 1S38 and 'V.i, when he, though a comparatively new man iu tho house of representatives, was tho republican candidate for speaker of that body. It was at that momentous period just pie-coding pie-coding tho c ivil war the house was so divided politically that no political party had a majority, although the republicans re-publicans had a plurality. There wero then in that body republicans; L.-compton L.-compton or Bi'ciianan democrats, anti-Lecompton anti-Lecompton or Douglas democrats, and Americans orwhigs, nearly all of tho latter coming from tho southern states. I'or two mouths successive ballots bal-lots wero had for tho office of speaker, and although mifumax led thereto ho could not obtain a majority. There wero a few members outsido of the Buchanan Bu-chanan wiug of tho democratic party who wero willing to support a republican, repub-lican, but their objection to .Sherman was that he bail indorsed or commended for salo an abolition work known as "Helpers Impending Crisis." Finally Siikrmak withdrew from the contest, and William I'knninoton, a republican repub-lican and a new member, was elected. Just prior to tho beginning of the war Mr. Shfuman entered tho senate, in which body ho has been continuously, continu-ously, with the exception of four years, from 1877 to 1 SSI, when ho was secretary secre-tary of the treasury under President Hayks. Early in his senatorial career he distinguished himself in debate and in action relative to finance, which in war days especially was a subject encompassed en-compassed with great difficulties anil was one of most vital concern. It was. however,. his work in tho congress that convened in December, 1x74, that earned for him the lusting gratitude of his countrymen. For more than twelve years prior to tha'- time tho solo circulating circu-lating medium of the country had been paper, continually lluctuatiug in value, and the question of when nnd how to get back to a specie liasis was then most prominent. HORACE GWELET said that the way to resume was to resume, but ho, like democrats of that day, never formulated or oven suggested a feasible plan for resumption. It was on Janu- , ary 14, l7.i, that the resumption act of Senator John mh.km.am became a law j |