Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
OHIO SITUATION.
As 1t is Being Developed among the Re
IHblicans.

As 1t is Being Developed Among the Re-
pnblicans.
Washington Cores ondeuce Cincinnati En-
quirer.
General Garfield has returned. He is a
good deal wiser touching the Presidential
feeling in Ohio than he was three days ago,
and he didn't get the inspiration while he
was adding bricks to his chimney at Mentor.
He stopped long enough in Cleveland to
have q conference with representative Re-
publicans, at which he learned that John
Sherman was not any more popular in Ohio
than he was elsewhere. Garfield's friends
those to whom he lets himself out-say
that the real objec. of Garfeld's
trip was to restrain any enthusiasm
which might be brewing in favor
of his own Presidential can
didacy, and to urge the kickers to stick to
Sherman. He found, though, that if he
(Garfeld) was willing to let Sherman ride
roughshod over him, his friends wouldn't
stand it; and he was given to understand in
the plainest Saxon that if he did not Cate
to be complimented with att least some of
Ohio's votes in favor of his Presidential nom
nation his friends would turn in and sup
port Blaine. There is, too, the best reason
for the statement that Sherman urged Gar
field to go to Ohio and use his influence to
quiet in the Western reserve the antagonism
which was making itself manifest against
Sherman's Presidential nomination.
Tonight Garfield visited Sherman and
gave him the benefit of the experience of his
trip. If Garfield honestly reports to Sher-
man that which he quietly told some of his
colleagues to-day he will appal the design
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| need not expect to get Ohio's solid vote at
| the Chicago convention; and for the very
good reason that he will not get it, Sherman
tagonism against him in his own State is his
bedrock of danger. Up to within ten days
ago all the reports touching the Presidential
situation in Ohio has been communicated to
him by his subservient Office holders. He
is now beginning to realize that there is a
sentiment in Ohio which is not controlled
either by office or the expectation of Office,
and that this influence will not permit itself
to be dragooned into his support upon any
terms.
1t has leaked out, tso, among the friends
of General Grant, that Secretary Sherman is
the originator of many of the attacks made
upon Grant personally, and the third term
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the closest connection between Schurz and
Sherman and the correspondent of leading
New York paper which is avowedly anti
third term. / have information tonight of
the most positive character that the state
ments telegraphed hence more than a month
ago-that a letter drawing Grant
out of the race would be
read at the Pennsylvania conven-
tion-was first started by Secretary
Sherman, and was circulated in the hope
that it would deter the convention from &C
tually instructing for Grant. Moreover, that
the New York newspaper correspondent who
telegraphed to his anti-thrd term newspaper
privately advised the home Office that Sher-
man was the real author, but we'll known
newspaper editor of the West was thrown
forward to cover him.
What makes Blaine such strong second
is the fact that he has not made an aggres.
sive war against the Grant management
His friends have been true, and pushed his
claims, but have done nothing mean-have
not struck below the belt, or INDUCED in any
tactics based solely upon imagination OF
born of Misrepresentation. If the Office
holders and the patronage of the treasury de
partment could be removed from the Sher
man s'boom" it would fall of its own weight
and collapse, as would punctured bladder
filled with wind.