Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-27
PRESIDENTIAL POINTS.
Il Tariety of Vie,rs on the Ever Interesting
Subject.

Il Tariety of Tie,rs on the Ever Interesting
Subject.
Washington Special, Jan. %.
If Congress does not furnish the country
with exciting episodes, the fact Of IT'S being
here makes good deal Of lively gossip.
Touching the Presidential outlook, politi-
clan of some prominence, in conversation
with your correspondent, thus discoursed: "It
has recently been announced that the Repub-
Iican convention in Congressman Harvey
Whites district in Pennsylvania has devel-
opsd determination to send a delegate tc
Chicago instructed for Blaine, and this is
claimed by Sherman's friends as an anti
Grant boom. Congressman White, a strong
Gran. man, when asked about this, said, with
wink, Never you mind.
Last night Congressman A. Herr Smith
was encountered by this alleged we'll in
formed politician, and in running con-
versation he in substance said:
"The action of the Republicans in Whites
district has no significance, SO far as
Grant is concerned. There is a grow
ing feeling in Pennsylvania that
the relations between Don Cam
eron and John Sherman, through the
young wife of the former-who is the niece,
and virtually the adopted daughter, of the
latter-would make the transition of Came
ron's influence from Grant to Sherman an
easy and not disagreeable event to either.
year ago or moro, when Edward McPher-
son resigned an important and lucrative
position in the navy department to
take charge of the Philadelphia Press, 1t
was universally locked upon in Washington
as move in Shernan's Presidential game.
1t was more than intimated that Sherman's
money cushioned the editorial chair of
Mcpherson. Mcpherson is far
seeing, and too cunning to develop
his real purpose without reasonable
hopes of carrying his following with him.
Sherman has never had respectable politi-
cal footing in Pennsylvania, and the oppor-
tunity has never arisen for the slightest pre-
text to attack Grant or Blaine SO that Sher-
man would profit in any way by it. In
Pennsylvania it is well known that the
wish for an early convention to select dele
gates to the Chicago convention had no par
tisan origin. nor had it the slightest personal
significance. The letters in the hands of Mr..
Quay, chairman of the State Executive COM
mittee, show that more anti Grant men sug-
gested it than those in favor of Grant. Yet
this action is seized on by the Philadelphia
Press, and q well concocted howl is started
through the State, that Don is taking snap
Judgment on the party in the interest of
Grant, and public indignation is sought to
be aroused, in hopes that the boom can be
counteracted and Grant run off the track.
New, the effect of this counter move
ment is not quite what Sherman hoped for.
1t is creating widespread suspicion that
Cameron is party to it, that his pretense of
being for Grant first, last and always is
simply to command the Grant boom thor
oughly; and when he has it well il hand, the
opportunity offering, he will guideit into the
Sherman waters. The truth is, the uprising
in favor of Blaine in Penn
sylvania is wholly with the
Grant people-principally with the soldiers
and they are showing their determination
to select their own candidate Grant is the
choice of Pennsylvania Republicans. If he
is drawn off or bucked off the track, then
they will not be diverted from their next
choice, which is Blaine. They do not pro-
pose being again sold out to an Ohio candi-
date, as they were in Cincinnati in 1876"