Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-12-21
GEN. SHERMAN.
Talk OF Him as d Presidential Candi.
date.

Talk Of Him as d Presidential Candi.
date.
George Alfred Townsend
There Is the greatest anxiety among the
officeholders to find somebody to run for
president in 1884. The Democrats generally
think the Republicans are going TO nominate
General Sherman. It is barely possible that
Sherman thinks so too, for observe that he
had great reception in Washington yester-
day, and undoubtedly he has INDUCED the
hope for some years back that he might
be o presidential possibility. His dispo-
sition to run might be enlarged by seeing
his brother John out Of the way for the pres
emit, though some think that John believes he
may have another turn Sherman would
make brilliant notwithstanding on the
style Of Andrew Jackson mean General
Jackson. He is a hot-headed, though rather
cool-hearted, man. He has good deal Of
ability to utter phrases that catch the time
and dwell on the public ear. Being man of
bold expression, he has hosts of enemies,
whom he has incurred by his criticisms; but
notice, as a general rule, that these enemies
who are so mad with Sherman are just as rash
as himself about attacking other people, and do
not like their own Cruel
Sherman has uttered great deal of caustic
wisdom since the war, and his influence has
been, on the whole, conservative. As a man
of family, Of household affections, and Of
certain silent pathos, he could be an enter
tanning personality if he ever got into a cam
paign The loss of his son, who went into the
Catholic church through the excessive devo-
ton Of his mother to that faith, was one of
those hard, mex pressible blows at Shermans
earthly hopes that has always seemed touch
ing Mrs. Sherman, the daughter of Thomas
Ewing. is one of the most thorough-going
Catholics in the country; while Gen. Sherman,
coming out of the Puritan mold, has kept the
faith Of his ancestors He had but this son,
whom he thought much of, and had expected
to put him in some worldly professional occu-
patton, and be near him the rest of mis- days
when suddenly it was announced that the boy
had resolved to enter the priesthood | have
heard that for some time Sherman felt rather
bitterly toward his wife on that account; but,
his natural instincts and magranimity return
ing, he rejoined his family after brief inter
val; but the boy is gone, apparently, forever.
Sherman has been overridden for several
years by the civil administration of the
department, even IN matters strictly pertain
ing to the army. He is one of the most intel
igent men l ever came in contact with Grant
had domestic, instructive nature, without
any imagination, and his conversations were
generally narrative and plain. Sherman has
mind like his face, with thunderbolt in it:
and, his faculties being unimpaired, he ought
to be now a wiser and mellower man than
ever before He knows considerable of every
thing. Educated in the military academy, lie
went into banking and pulled his own canoe
for several years; and when he returned to
the army he became the right hand of Grant,
and the great poet of the war-cutting
circle in the south like majestic rhyme, or
the swinging of a mighty pendulum His
original instincts are almost always Just
Holding position at the head of military
school in Louisiana at the outbreak of the
war, he told his neighbors that they would be
shivered to fragments if they struck at the
union, and he left them and thrnw himself
into the northern army.
Most of the generals children partake of
their mothers atfectionate domestic nature.
recollect being in st. Louis about five or six
years ago, when, sauntering into the opera one
evening, I found an empty seat near Mrs.
Sherman She asked me who 1 was for for
president and then answered the question
herself by saying: There are two men l
hope won't get it; one of them is Grant and
the other Sherman, meaning her husband