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Show How Sherman Got Into Congress. "These are days of tidal waves, " said Senator Sherman. "We had a marked change in 1 892 and have just witnessed another. Do I recollect anything to f-qual the last one? Oh, yes. We had the same thing happen" 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 aad was nominated in a district With 8,000 Democratic majority. I hoped, c? eourso, to be elected, but I had no reason to feel confident. Few txpected it. Yet I went in with 3,000 more than enough to elect me. " St Louis Globe-Democrat |
