Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-16
SHERMAN AS A CANDIDATE.


The Cincinnati Commercial seems to
think that Secretary Sherman may prove a
formidable candidate for the Republican
Presidential nomination in 1880. Compar-
ing his chances with those Of Grant, Blaine
and Conkling, it says:
. 1t is the mission Of Sherman to restore
the country to a solid financial basis. He
has been abused without stint by those
who have been in favor of cheap money
now and cheap money forever. Hard times
have been attributed to him. All bank
ruptcies have been charged to his recount.
Congress has been after him with a variety
of contrivances for his embarrassment.
Now, suppose he triumphs over all. Sup
pose we glide into specie payments-or roll
in quietly on wheels Of silver and gold
and confidence being rostored, tho capital
list unloeKs his treasures and new enter
.prises spring up-gold and silver to the
amount Of hundreds Of millions circulate
labor is occupied, wages good, the ten
dency OF the markets upward-and sud-
denly within q few months the country
feels prosperous and is trying to under
stand that it can afford to be happy, and
that the year 1879 is a glorious year, a
golden year Of good times! How will
Sherman stand before the country then?
What would be the popular feeling to-
wars the magician who had wrought the
change? Would not Sherman be pre-
ferred to the illustrious chieftain who had
stood unabashed and all that sort Of thing
before the shaking thrones of effete Eu-
rope, and to the gloomy and grumbling
Conkling, the statesman of sour grapes and
the knight Of the sore head? Or even to
<ho purtbaautaru vin1hau with a or.ol,
in the silk of his balloon. But we pause
for replies.
The allusion to "the northeastern wind
bag with a crack in the silk Of his balloon y
is evidently intended for Jim Blaine, the
Commercial seeming to assume that the
Maine statesman was slightly added by
the sunstroke of 1876. The criticism Of
Senator Conkling as the sour grapes"
statesman is eminently just, though he is
30 aggressive in whatever he undertakes
that we cannot help admire him, as do we
believe the largest share Of the American
people. We have had a warm spot for
Conkling ever since he sat down on the
oman milliners" in the Rochester Con-
v~ention. But as to Sherman for the Presi-
dency. This we consider to be the gravest
joke Of the season. II any other man than
Sherman should place the finances of this
country on a solid enduring basis lie would
have claims on the country which could
not well be ignored. But Sherman, never.
His direct and personal connection with
Az -~sk f,o.,I 49, ,-I,al II ,oa ,ra sol.
is too well established to admit
Of the possibility of the people of the
United States, or any considerable portion
thereof, favoring him for the exalted posi-
tion of Chief Magistrate Of the nation.
Sherman has about as much show Of being
President, or even becoming the Republic
can standard bearer, as General Dennis
Kearney, who is not eligible.
BOB ~INaERsoLL has o distinct object in
view in his visit to Scotland. says the New
York World II is not that there he may
fdlyp iaamire the picturtsqueness Of Scottish
seepefy, or wander amid storied scenes
where Bruce and Wallace fought proud
Edward. and Edwin Ruthven scaled the
valls of Dumbarton castle and certainly
the memory Of John Knox does mot fire
him with enthusiasm to see the places
where the great preacher Numbered. None
Of these things move him. But what he
really desires to do is to visit the birth.
place Of Robert Burns, and consult with
the oldest inhabitants Of Ayr, in order to
establish it beyond doubt that Burns was
an out-and-out infdel.
CoLoRApo has just organized Q Press
Association. The first thing in order after
completing the organization, was an excur-
sion and free lunch. We were in hopes
the representatives Of the press, in that
young and vigorous commonwealth, would
set q noble example to the fraternity else
where by aiscarding free b~lowouts.
Nh. CHAFFEE. the Republican Senator Of
Colorado, says hat Hayes is an infrm,
small. cheap man. who likes to hear him
self talk. but doesn't mean any Of it."
This shows that. In his delineations Of
character. Senator Chafee IL . man Of
god md vszaeious perceptions.