. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. and resourcefulness in staving ofifdisaster in the impending Presidential campaign. After four troublous years, consumed primarily inwrangling over the financial issue and characterized by Political expediency demanded that the gubernatorial and sena-torial candidates be not taken from the same sections of the state. Taftand Matthews were both from Cincinnati. This canon of expediencywas observed with comparative regularity in Ohio politics. Taft wasalso considered as committed to a contest with Matthews for the Senatethrough an election as govern
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. and resourcefulness in staving ofifdisaster in the impending Presidential campaign. After four troublous years, consumed primarily inwrangling over the financial issue and characterized by Political expediency demanded that the gubernatorial and sena-torial candidates be not taken from the same sections of the state. Taftand Matthews were both from Cincinnati. This canon of expediencywas observed with comparative regularity in Ohio politics. Taft wasalso considered as committed to a contest with Matthews for the Senatethrough an election as governor. W. C. McFarland to Sherman, ^ August 4. 1877. Also press reports. Myers, Bosses and Boodle, pp. 143-153, describes shameful manipu-lations connected witli the Convention. Ohio in National Politics, 1865-1896 323 temporizing that did not promise well for the poHticalfuture of many of the participants, the leadership ofboth parties evinced greater anxiety to declare the issueclosed. Contests in Congress connected with the fraud. JOHN SHERMAN Representative in Congress, March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861; UnitedStates Senator, March 21, 1861-March 8, 1877 ; Secretary of the Treasuryof the United States, March 8, 1877-March 3, 1881; United States Senator,March 4, 1881-March 4, 1897; Secretary of State of the United States,March 5, 1897-April 25, 1898. issue, the cipher dispatches, the army bill and the elec-tive franchise in the South afforded a much safer basison which to muster forces for the impending party turned to squaring the political mind to its 324 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications own ends; Democrats courted sympathy for a greatinjury in 1876; Republicans found, in the trumped upissues, color for then- cause of national supremacy innational affairs. The growth of the Greenback partyin the face of financial agitation threatened insecurityto the traditional appeal of both parties. From visible evidence the political redemption ofOhio was to be
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