Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
SIBERIAN IND THE PRESIDENCY

SIBERIAN IND THE PRESIDENCY.
Several months ago Secretary Sherman
announced to the public that he was can
didate for the Presidency, and did not pro-
pose to quit the track until such time as the
Republican party had held its convention
and relegated him to the shades of private
life. With the purpose in view he proceed
ed, with true Republican facility, to use the
patronage of his Office to advance his inter-
ests. He sent special agents of the treasury
some degree of enthusiasm in his behalf.
These agents, paid out of the general treas
ury, have covered the entire area of the
South, and have dispensed patronage lib
orally to the purchassable part of the Re
publicans. The result has been considerable
of "boom" for Sherman in some sections.
So strong was this feeling in his favor IN
North Carolina that the twenty delegates to
the national convention were pledged to
vote for him. Since their election, however,
eighteen of the number have transferred
their allegiance to Grant, and are now devout
worshipers at the shrine of third termism.
Mr.. Sherman's agents have been very in
dustrious all over the South. They have,
apparently, had an unlimited supply of
ready cash, and haye dispensed it with a
lavish hand. While the effects are not vet
tangible, we have no doubt but Mr.. Sherman
entertains great expectations as to results.
The net profit, however, promises to be that
be will go into the convention with perhaps
two score of delegates pledged to support
him, but ready to sell out again to the high
est bidder. For this the people of the coun-
try have had to pay an enormous sum,
reaching away up into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Mr.. Sherman has the
rare advantage among candidates for office
of having the national treasury at his COM
msnd, and all bills that may be incurred by
him can readily be charged to this or that
fund without liability of detection.
But notwithstanding his resources, Mr..
Sherman as Presidential candidate has
proved dismal failure. He started in with
great flourish of trumpets. 1t was ex-
peoted by many that the favors he had shown
to the New York banks would secure him
their influence. These favors cost the gov
eminent several millions of dollars. But
when the New York convention was held
Sherman's name was not even mentioned.
He distributed pamphlets printed at the
government printing office designed to show
that he is the ablest financier in the world,
but yet he appears to be entirely ignored as
q Presidential candidate, and is mentioned
only by q few in remote sections as second,
third or fourth choice.
If Mr.. Sherman, with all the resources at
his command, can make no better showing
in the future than he has in the past, he will
advance himself in the public esteem by re-
firing altogether from the Presidential race.
Though he desires to reach the White House,
it is very evident that the people do not
want him there. He has spent about as
much of the peoples money as they feel
like sparing for electioneering purposes, and
he should lock the door of the treasury and
make up his mind to live in obscurity for
the balance of his life. By such course he
may succeed in retaining that portion of the
public esteem which he has not already for
feited. AS Presidential candidate he is a
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