Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-21

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Washington, July 12.-Secretary Sher-
man has announced that he is a candidate
for the republican nomination for the presi.
dency. His aspirations have been a matter
of suspicion for several months, and close
observers Of events have seen indications at
the treasury department for some time that
have convinced them of which the secretary
has now acknowledged. No one will deny
that he is a formidable candidate, and al
though he has announced that he will not
use the great machinery which his position
as head of the treasury gives him the com
mand of. it is very easy to understand that
every subordinate officer in that department
will from this time on be an active and ar
dent Sherman man, and as the political
workers (civil service orders to the contrary
Notwithstanding are mostly.in Office, the
secretary will start out with a complete Or
ganization throughout the country. t5.
l saw a good thing in a Montreal paper
the other day. Gen. Sherman was there.
A newspaper interviewer approached him,
and with that ignorance that many Cana
dams have for United States affairs, asked
him:
General, l see that you are going to
be the next president Of the United
States" .l3[l
"No,n, replied the general, in his candid
way, ~ am not. You mean my
brother" ~u Ga4 :
Although everybody, nearly, is shouting
for Grant for the next president, nobody
here believes that he will permit bis name
to be mentioned as a candidate !; and those
who are most active in urging him, in this
end of the country, at least, are doing it in
the interest Of Conkling, who has said to
me, as he has said to others, that he was not
and would not be a candidate as long as
Gen. Grants name was mentioned.
Conkling referred to Window as a stick
of good presidential timber the other day,
and it was a we'll meant we'll paid compli-
ment. Although as everybody in Minneso.l
ia knows, Senator Window has. not got the
fever, " it would be only Justice 10 the state,
and to the most useful man in the senate to
have this suggestion considered seriously
before the national convention meets next
spring. There is no man in public life who
has more generally the public confidence
than William Window, and there is no man
fwho: has more fairly earned it. In the SEN
ate; he is respected and admired on both,
sides. Nc one has done more work or &C.
complished greater results in the senate than
he, and although he has not at any time at
tempted to be conspicuous, but on the,con.
trary has avoided notority, mis- nameshas
been ass~ociateds.with all8the legislation Of
Importance that has been before congress
during the time he had been there.
Window would make an excellent presi.
dent, and Minnesota and the west had better
| ask for his nomination.
No one but Sherman and Blaine are in
1.-THE field n~ow-counting Grant out, and the
canvass has already commenced.
Secretary Sherman is going into, Maine
next week to make some speeches, and / am.
going to follow him up there. He speaks at
Portland on the 23d, and will then go elee-
where, in company with Messrs. Blaine,
Hale, Hamlin and others. :.