Show FALLS BY TilE WAYSIDE Mr John Sherman has fallen by the political wayside The scene of this tumble tum-ble is a wellknown station on the political po-litical route called Springfield Illinois Mr Elaine is going to Europe Mr Sherman Sher-man had better have gone to Kamchatka before he made that Springfield speech If he had continued on to tho North Pole he could not have been in a colder atmosphere at-mosphere than now surrounds him What a change has a short time and Mr Sherman himself wrought But a few weeks ao Mr Sherman was inhaling the air of a balmy Southern spring Now he is noting with a long sad shiver the formation of the icicles so rapidly attaching themselves to his Springfield speech But a few weeks ago Mr Sherman basked hopefully in I the warmth of the Southern sun Now his numbed fingers are hopelessly struggling with the frozen folds of the Ijjoody shirt V A few weeks ago the Cincinnati Times Star said editorially Senator Shermans great speeches in tho Bouth have not only had a mar velouseffect in arousing a large class of the Southern people but they have also set the Republicans ot the North to con I sidering whetner an earnest campaign in the South would not break the neck of the Bourbon rule in several of the Southern States Tho TimesStar has not been heard from since Mr Sher mans effort at Springfield In fact since then we have seen in no Republican journal anything that could be construed into an intimation that an earnest campaign I cam-paign at the South under the Sherman leadership would break the neck of the Bourbon rule in several of the Southern States There is little doubt but that a neck has been broken already but it is not the neck of Bourbon rule in the South by any means The fact of the case is that Mr John Sherman was only warmed physically during dur-ing his visit South The political warmth he went to seek failed to materalize The great hook with which Mr Sherman Sher-man was to be drawn to tho Southern bosom was tho protectivo tariff Mr Sherman was himself to furnish this hook so as the Southern people would be certain to have it But this hook was already well known to tho Southern I South-ern people and they had and have very I different uses for it than in catching onto on-to Mr Sherman with it They caught on to Mr Sherman indeed but not in the way ho desired The people of the South are Democrats They stand firmly and squarely upon the tariff plank of the I Democratic Convention of 1884 Southern South-ern allegiance to tariff and Southern endorsement of John Sherman were two entirely different things The South needs a revenue tariff She docs DOt need John Sherman Mr Shermans little personal scheme failed to dovetail with Southern necessities The South fully understood this before Mr Sherman came Mr Sherman fully understood it when ho went away From Mr Shermans thorough appreciation appre-ciation of his failure in the South came his Springfield speech Ho had nothing to hope for from the Southern people Therefore at the first fitting opportunity he threw off the irksome restraint imposed by a selfish selfinterest and spoke of the South and her people as he really thought The people he had lately fawned upona beggar for personal per-sonal and political favors he now villi fies anew in the old Shermanstrain so familiar to the public The only perceptible per-ceptible difference is nn increase of f the old venom The malice of disappointed chicanery is now added to the slanders which have been active for twenty years Neither the South nor the Nation at large are much surprised Bitter Bit-ter experience long ago taught the I I South what John Sherman really i is and the personal observation consequent upon Mr Shermans late Southern visit has only emphasized southern opinion The Nation itself is not surprised at Shermans Springfield speech Why should it be Has It not heard it every year for nearly a quaifer of a century But this well known and timetattered speech carries with it last a deep and marked significance It means something some-thing this time It marks tho final death of the war issue It means that John Sherman and the Republicanism Re-publicanism ho leads and represents have nothing to offer tho Nation but the bloody shirt It means that sectionalism is the only thing upon which the Republican Repub-lican party can appeal to the people John Shermans Springfield speech shows that Republicanism is indeeed in its last ditch The bloody shirt for a standard and sectionalism blazoned on its crimson folds Such is the Republican pro grammesuch is the Republican policy for 1888 Republican defeat is now as certain as is the glorious fact that the sun of America Amer-ica shines upon a united nation And so Mr John Shermans boom booms no more He falls by the political wayside and his party falls with him John Sherman at the South had a ring of hope fallacious though it was John Sherman at Springfield tells only of disaster |