Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-22
GEN. SHERMAN.
he IS HERYc0Y ON NTHEPREs1DENcY


he rs VERY COY ON THE PRESIDENCY
Happy at the Thought of Being Retired
on 4I5, 900 . Year--.A Period of Rest
and Peace In Sight---A Residence at st.
Louis with Summers In tho Rockies and
Winters In Florida---He Prefers the Lite
Salary to Presidential Candidacy---Talk
with Republican Omoe Holder---sher-
man . Good Double Header from
Church Standpoint.
[Gsth's Letter.
New YoRx, Dec. 21.-To-day q vas
turning the corner of the Fifth ayenue
hotel, encountered Gen. Tecunseh Sher.
man.
"Why," said he, "do you live over here,
Come in and see my room.''
he took me into the same room Zach
and Billy Chandler had used for conduct
ing Hayes presidential campaign, par
lor in front, dark passage way and bath
between, and bedroom back, on a small
dim court.
General said l." you are in good looks
and spirits for the hard knocks you have
received"
SOh, yes" said Sherman, 81 am Just as
tough as q pine knot. Never felt better
in my life. You know I am going to have
rest. Yes, I am going out of the
military service. look forward to
it with great joy. My wife wants to 90.
She is tired of the incessant changes in
men and events at Washington city. No
stability, social life all cut up, change,
change, change! We are going to St.
Louis. Some of the family live there. I
have my own house there. I always liked
the st. Louis people. They are warm, af-
fectionate and spirited people. tell you,
have got a good house there"
do they retire you with full pay, Gen
eral?"
eyes, full pay. Even my horses, 1 keep
them too. Congress has been very liberal
and square with me.'
"What does the pay of the General
amount to?"
about $4,000. can live in st. Louis,
Iguess, on $1,000 month, and that will
leave me $4,000 year to spend on my
Children. think can do that. am not
rich man, you know
SWELL, General, st. Louis is a rather
smoky, dingy city, hot in the summer,
too.'
SWELL, that may be true, but shall light
out in hot weather. The Rocky mountains
will be my camp, up there about Helena,
Montana, where it is high and lovely.
can drop down to Florida in the spring, or
to Texas. st. Louis is very central. I
think may live ten years in comparatively
active life. will be with my people, can
see my old companions and friends, and
breathe the breath of some freedom.
'Your son-in-law, Commodore Fitch. out
there is very well spoken Of"
Eyes; he is a hard-working man, smart
and very successful. He has built ND a
large and safe business. I expect he may
be rich man,
All this time the General was giving
some instructions about visits to his
daughter Rachael and putting his name in
autograph copies of his memoirs. Said I,
General Sherman, friend called at my
house last night and thought you were sure
to be the next Republican candidate for
PRESIDENT
"Now about that" said Gen. Sherman.
"You see cannot be fool enough
te decline what is not offered
to me, but what do want to turn from
the prospect of rest and peace,at last for
period of years, to the delusion of four
years in an Office that is just hell? That's
what it is," continued the General emphat-
ically. sit is hell. What did Gen. Harri-
son get out of it? Nothing but month
of misery. What did Gen. Taylor get out
of it? Twelve months of misery. What
did Grant get out of it? Do want to re-
sign this competence congress has bestow-
ed on me, for four years of hell? What
did Hayes get out of the presidency? VIII at
did Garfield get? Take them all within
your memory. Nothing but worry, trouble,
misunderstanding"
"Well, General Sherman, people will
talk, they don't care anything about your
comfort if they can elect you.''
''That is SO. They will talk" said the
general.
continued by saying that General Han
cock stood no worse for having run for
president two years ago.
81 told Hancock" Sherman said, "That
he got out of the mess just in time to save
himself.''
care you si1ty-four yet General?"
II was born in February 1920. I am
nearly sixty three. The law retiring us all
at sixty-four I approved of. think it is
a good law"
'Did you pass any of your youth in
Ohio?"