Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-22

HeUHs RoStcTs AuCtNStCS ana IuIC IN the
Field, and Several Counties to Hear
From
Washington Special, Nov. Is.
Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, has spent
twenty-four hours in Washington upon O.
very interesting mission. He returned to
Ohio tonight. He came here for the pur-
pose of consulting with Secretary Sherman
to see if there was not some way of adjust.
ing the present Republican quarrel over the
Ohio Senatorship. For the fight to con-
tinue between Foster and Sherman, as it
now promises at the beginning, is felt to be
very bad for the party in Ohio. Within the
last few days strong appeals by letter have
been made to Gen. Garfield to persuade him to
offer John Sherman his present position in
the next cabinet. One great object of Gen.
Grosvenors visit was to see if Mr.. Sherman
would accept this position if it was offered to
him. 1t can be stated upon authority that
Mr.. Sherman said to-day that he would &C.
cept the offer if it were made him. Since
Grosvenor's visit it is predicted by an Ohio
gentleman who talked with him that Gen.
Garfield will write letter to John Sherman
within the next fortnight, making him an
offer of the cabinet position now held BY him.
Besides the appeals that have boen made to
Gen. Garfield by Ohio politicians anxious
for harmony, other letters have been written
to Gen. Garfield in Sherman's interest by
representatives of the most important
business intereats of the country, saying that
Sherman was really elected to stay in the
cabinet by the same votes that elected Gen.
Garfield. These letters say that the result
of the election sustained Sherman 8 wise ad-
ministration of the treasury department, and
that he Is, of all men, entitled to first con-
slderatlon. 1t Sherman is not offered his
cabinet position, the locking of horns, as the
phrase goes, between Sherman and Foster
will begin, and it is the opinion of Gen.
Grosvenor, expressed here to-day, that Fos-
ter would win. When it is considered that
Gen. Grosvenor is Sherman's friend and one
of the best informed of Ohio politicians, this
opinion has weight. It liz said that the Re-
publican party was never 80 strong in Ohio
as it is to-day, and that it has never been so
full of future working possibilities. That the
party is in such fine condition is almost ens
tirely credited to Charley Foster, and it will
have great effect in electing him United
States Senator. He contributed $4,000 to
the campaign of 1879, and literally in the
last canvass. He expended $4,000 in Chi
cago during the last Republican convention
in paying the expenses of delegates. He
has always been free with his money for le-
gitimate uses in canvass, and Mr.. Sherman
has not. Foster is felt to have personal
claim upon any position that Ohio may
have within its gift, and for that reason is q
tremendous antagonist, even for John
Sherman, backed by the prestige of his
career as a financier. There are other
contestants for the Ohio senatorship
such as Grandpa Taft, Stanley Matthews,
and others, but they could easily be disposed
of if Gen Garfield only were willing. Some.
thing of the stupendous cheek of the average
Ohio man was heard to-day by statesman
of the Western Reserve, who, in speaking of
the Senatorial complication, said that Hayes
and Garfield had four places in the United
| States supreme court at their early disposal,
and with these all difficulties of the situation
ought to be settled. Four vacancies upon q
supreme court bench to be used to settle q
local brawl could only occur to an Ohio man.
| One thing is declared about one of the i'm
| portant missions, and that is that Minister
Noyes will be recalled from Paris. 1t is re-
membered that he once arose in a conven-
tion IN Ohio, and denounced Garfield as
a corrupt man. Since that time
the two have hao no social intercourse. This
| French mission thrown in with the supreme
court places and a cabinet position ought to
be enough to heal the difficulties of the Ohio
situation. There is an embarrassment, how
ever, in asking Secretary Sherman to take a
seat in the next cabinet, on account of Sen.
ator Conkling. Cen. Garfield's friends saw
that, while Garfield made no treaty, compact,
or anything approaching either, neverthe-
less Gen. Garfield does feel under a
sense of obligation to Senator Conkling and
other Grant leaders, and is disposed not to
do anything to needlessly displease them.
The Vice President that is to be ia a
discharged and censured subordinate of
Sherman's. Only politicians who know how
to forget and forgive can see any real ease
in Secretary Sherman's occupying a seat in
Gen. Garfeld's cabinet;but Gen. Grosyenor.
when he went away to-day, was reasonably
certain that at least one member of Gar.
fields cabinet was already q determined
matter.
An Ohio elector who was in the city to-dav
carried home with him a blue book, with ali
the good places and fat salaries marked ont.
1t is predicted that the Ohio element already
in public life is only wart in comparison
with the mountainous proportions that will
ba aGsumnd undor tho roion ,f no-S.Il