New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-28

nomination; and if the Convention should vote 10
admit the fraudulent boilers delegation Hoh
Louisiana he would be within 10 votes OF q
nomination. This would practically mean MS
nomination.
THE SOURCE OF THE MOVEMENT
The Grant managers or those Of them who ere
here deny that they are taking any steps to BRING
about a combination between the Grant and sher-
man forces. The fact remains, however, that the
ticket has been suggested by Grant newspapers
and that MANY Grant men, including Senator Logan
have expressed belief that Secretary Sherman
name would go in the second place. Anotnor 'll'ns
ust he stated before it can be made clear how Sec
retary Sherman could possibly be forced down from
the irst place to the second by his own friends ana
against his own wish. Well-infOrmed men say thaV
the movement for the combination really comes
from the insincere Sherman men in the oOutneip
delegations. They are men who have no holu VI"
Offices at present, and whose only hope for the I'-
ture Is to put the Republican candidate for the
Presidency under obligations to them. They Will
be anxious to flock to the banner Of that candidate
who has priad facie prospect of nomination, ana
this according to the Grant men, General Graht
now has. Those Sherman men who are anxious 10
20 over to Grant but do not want to desert Sher-
man. can kill two birds with one stone by urging
that Grants nomination is inevitable and 1t VIII De
wise to seem to help in bringing it about rather
than to seem to be opposing it; that 1t VIII put
Secretary Sherman in an honorable position TO be
placed on the ticket with General Grant. and that
lie will thus have good start for the race OF 1854
DECLINING A FOURTH TERM ALREADY
Just here it may be interesting to say that /
heard to-day from q wcll-infOrned supporter ol
General Grant the first intimatiOn that has been
given, so far as l know, with respect to General
Grants purposes in case of his nomination and cleo
tion, The question was asked long ago, ana mas
bcen asked thousands of times since, whether II
General Grant was elected for third term he
would not be a candidate for fourth, and whether
if lie should be reelected for fourth, he would not
want an indefinite number of terms or a te-tenuIe'
No answer has ever been given, "authortativo" OF
otherwise nnd tho Grant newspapers have ably
avoided the subject. The gentleman just referred
to says that he understands another term Tor General
| Grant-supposing that he gets third-to be out
of the question and he evidently meant to have 1t
understood that General Grant did not desire 1t.
His only idea in becoming candidate now was
that he believed himself able to revive the Repub-
Econ marty in several OF tho Southern States, and
| 70 break down the sectional and political barriers
in the South The bitterness OF the war would last
lust so long as the two parties kept 1t alive Geh-
eral Grants candidacy and administration would
break up party lines in the South, and create new
issues This can hardly be considered. however, nm
authoritative" statement that General Grant. If
nominated and elected in 1850, will withdraw in
! 1854.
| OBSTACLES IN THE WAY.
To return to the proposed Grant and Sherman
ticket it NAV be az we'll to recaptuato the obsta-
clcs IN the way Secretary Sherman himself is the
chief of them c does not need TO be told that the
ice-Presidency is not steppng-stone to the Pre'-
dency and it is gossip here that he wants to be the
next Secretary OF the Treasury If he cannot be the
next President Another is 10 the effect that
number OF the Southern delegates will tor personal
reasons stand firmly by Mr.. Sherman so long as he
| 10 n candidate Another is Mr.. COnkng, who Will
bo the recognized leader of the Grant party by viz
ue of his position at the head Of the largest Grant
delegation 20 say nothing OF his parliamentary and
Orlt0rical ability; and Mr. COnkllnRs feelings to-
| ward MIR. Sherman, il Is sAid, can be more easily
Imagined than described. But the Grant people do
not believe that Mr. Conkling would have the same
| feeling about seeing MIR. Sherman IN the second
place as about seeing him IN the first.
| SHERMAN FIRM.
Some of Secretary Sherman's friends believe that
| IL the Grant men find they can make the cOmbna-
ton proposed with the Southern delegates their
! scheme is to nominate Mr. Sherman for VccPresi-
dent in spite Of the protests Of his real friends and
adjourn the Convention, but it s believed by somc
here that he would refuse the nomination even then.
| Thomas N. Nichols secretary Of tho Northwestern
| Hard-Money League, and an earnest friend OF
| Secretary Sherman, has received letter in which
the Secretary says that he Is candidate for Presi
dent only, and proposes to " stick that he wants
his friends to keep him in the field long he has
ten votes in the Convention. II. therefore, any pro-
| fessed Sherman men in the Southern delegation
seek betray him to the Grant faction on the pre-
tence that they doing Mr.. sherman favor at
the same time, they must do II IN tho face OF the
most explicit and emphatic Tcfusals on his part.
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