Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-26
cattle and 800, 900 sheep were received,
and 100000 cattle and 1885, 600 hogs
were shipped.
SHARP SHERMAN.

sffss GHt OF the CuOeRct HOUtHSC FOSter"S
to-The Racket 30 WIicIs Calico
Charley SwccGntbcd.
[Mentor Correspondence Dec. 23) Chicago
Times]
After diligent and careful search for
the facts, the Times correspondent is able
to reveal the true inwardness of Governor
Fosters cruel taking off as a candidate
field has been very careful to commit nc
impropriety as an interested observer OF
the Senatorial fight, and if at the last
moment he was compelled to decide in
favor of Sherman, and make that gentle
mans election sure, he was compelled by
circumstances over which he had no con-
trail He and Foster are warm personal
friends, and il was natural to
suppose that he should sympathize
with Fosters iaudable ambition to become
a Senator of the United States. In spite,
therefore, of his neutrality and silence,
his well-known friendship and intimacy
with Foster led to the very general belief
throughout the State that he desired the
governors election to the Senate.
GARFIELD's WISHES
| AofC WCIS4IO Will Hlolt kJO41I1ClCsIlS
at the present time, and the general i'm
preston that ne was favorable to Foster
greatly helped that gentleman in his can
vass Under these circumstances, If Fos-
ter should succeed, mr.. Sherman would
very naturally blame Gen. Garfield and
hold him responsible for his defeat
Sherman is a good hater, and no prudent
public man would needlessly incur his
displeasure. 1t was not Gen. Garfield's
fault that the impression had got abroad
that he desired Fosters election. It was
the natural and inevitable result of the
factEthat they were intimate personal
friends From this fact everybody was
ready TO infer that in some manner Gen.
Garfield would make his preference
known and permit it to influence the
members OF the general assembly. In
correct as this inference might be, it was
unavoidable, and would result in placing
Gen. Garfield in an embarrassing position
| Under these circumstances, the with
draWal of Foster would relieve him of
suspicion, and Of the danger that his ad-
ministration might be regarded by Sher-
man with Indifferent GOODNESS or positive
hostility.
! ANOTHER EMBARRASSMENT
was caused by the very general belief
among business men that the financial
affairs of the government will need the
experienced guiding hand Of Mr.. Sher-
man for some years to come Immedi-
ately after the Presidential electionsb
mess men throughout the country began
to express a strong desire for the reten-
ton of MIR. SHERMAN in the treasury
department. This desire was made
known to Gen. Garfield with great en-
| phasis and unanimity by the business
men Of Cleveland, many of whom are
personal friends of the President-elect
For the men who make and control the
business of the country Gen. Garfield has
profound respect, and he is
DESTROYS of pleasing them in every proper
way. But to call Sherman into his cabi-
net is not in harmony with his plans, and
he could not entertain with favor any
proposition looking to that end When
Sherman became known as candidate
for the senatorship, business men who
think that the country can not dispense
with his services in financial management
consoled themselves with the hope that
he would be elected, and that in the Sen
ate he would be as useful in shaping
financial legislation as he could be in the
treasury department executing it. This
relieved the pressure for his retention in
THE CABINET.
But if Foster should defeat him, nobody
knew better than Gen. Garfield that the
pressure would be renewed, and that
there would be an increased clamor for
his continuance at the head of the treas
ury. This would embarrass the incoming
1 President and disarrange his plans. The
| withdrawal of Foster would remove all
possibility of such embarrassment. Thus,
while the Ohio politicians generally sup
posed that Gen. Garfeld's sympathies
were with Foster, his own interest, and
what he believe to be the interests of the
county, demanded that Sherman should
secure the Senatorship.
1t is not believed, however, that Gen.
Garield's generous and magnanimous ma
| ture would have permitted him to request
Fosters withdrawal in order to relieve
himself of embarrassment, if this motive
had not been reinforced by others which
the skillful management of Mr. Sherman
supplied. That adroit politician quietly
organized
| 4 MOVEMENT AGAINST FOSTER
which proved to be irresistible Politi-
clans throughout the State all at once
opened on Foster fire of friendly and
f1attering letters, in which they expressed
their unbounded admiration for his gen
eralship in the campaign of last year,
and their profound sense OF
the party's need of his per
sonal leadership IN 1881 They
represented to him that, while his chanc-
es of election to the Senate were good and
growing better, his success would embit-
ter Sherman and his friends, divide the
party, and play the mischief generally in
the gubernatorial canvass of next year.
They talked in this way to many of Eos
ter's friends, until they were frightened
and induced to join in the epistolary fire
on Foster. Personal visits to the gov
ernor, and earnest oral appeals were
| added to the avalanche of letters. The
browning glory of this strategic move
lnent was achieved when, by personal So
licitation and urgent appeals, Gen. Gar
field was induced to approve the move
ment in favor Of Fosters withdrawal.
Speaker Cowgirl, before writing the let
ter which is published as the Immediate
occasion of Fosters surrender, visited
| Mentor and
| CONFERRED WITH GEN. GARFIELD.