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Show AN UNCALLED FOR SLUR. When Senator Sherman of Illinois was engaged in his abuse of the administration ad-ministration yesterday, in an effort to discredit the head of our government and add to the worry of those who are directing the affairs of this nation at the most critical time in the history of this country, one of his own party should have halted him long enough to inquire as to what he Is doing to uphold the hands of the President Sherman attempted to 6how that every ev-ery man called to the higher command was a square peg in a round hole. At the end of his philippic, he should have been informed that of all the square pegs in round holes in public life, he was one of the greatest misfits as a senator supposed to be doing his utmost to help America win the war. His attacks please his German constituency con-stituency In Chicago. He has not the courage to openly state he Is laboring to win the pro-German vote by making mak-ing an assault on the president of the United 'States. He gains his objective by resorting to comouflagc. On the Republican side, be is performing the same unmanly service as that which made Senator Stone in the Democrat ic party a sneer and a by word. Eventually men like Sherman will be anathematized by the American people. Sherman's criticism Is of the nap-ging, nap-ging, haraiaing kind, which cannot serve any purpose other than to distract dis-tract those who are deeply involved In the labor of making this country equal to the mighty task of forcing back a menace to our liberties A barking. ?nappinc cur, at the heels of one engaged en-gaged in a great undertaking could not be more out of place than is this s.merkrnut senator from Illinois. |