Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-27
A Powerful Presidential Combination.

A Powerful Presidential Combination.
Gath, who, in his letters to the En-
quirer, is booming Gen. Sherman for
Presidential candidate, has this
among other things in his account of
an interview with the General, at
New York:
He does look magnificent, and for
his age he is as fighting like man
as I ever found. He talks quick,
quaint, and L should judge, is not
looking as far away from the Presi-
dency as his speech implies.
I will now outline talk / had with
Republican oficeholder only last
night, who said:
''The nomination of Tecumseh
Sherman is as likely to happen as
anything so far of. John Sherman
is party to it. Halstead, of Gin
cinnati, has been here talking it up.
The idea is that ne can draw to him,
through his wife, remarkable Cath
Ole vote, such as no Republican
would get, while he himself is Pro-
testant of the old Puritan stamp Of
Roger Sherman
Ii is about time for Halstead NJ. to
have a new candidate. The running
of Blaine as Garield's boss, and
then as his legatee has not pros>
pered.
If Gen. Sherman is the nominee,
there can be no more improperly
in working up Catholic votes
for him through the Pope than in
Gen. Garfelds plan to work up the
Democratic disciples in Indiana, as
he wrote to Gen. Arthur; but would
not this be playing it rather fine
when it is known that the General
has been received into the bosom of
the Catholic Church in Washington
Continues Gath:
"But," said /, "will that not be too
much like Republican tactics for a
good while past-to fly principle for
the sake of expediency?"
They all do it, answered my in
formant, who has a $4,000 place.
"Mrs. Sherman is the most popular
woman in this country with hier.
archy. She could almost get LETT
ter from the Pope for Sherman. On
the other hand, Sherman is on record
against priestcraft and spiritual ig>
norance.
On record against priestcraft, and
yet a member of the Catholic Church?
Surely the General has the strategic
qualifications for candidate.
And this is the political whiligig of
five years:
Well, only five years ago Grant was
beating the Democratic party because
of its Catholic element. Now are
they to be beaten again by swapping
with that element
Then candidate was booming
against the Catholics; now one is to
be doomed by the Catholic And he
a Protestant Puritan-Roman-C Catholic
of the old John Rogers and Roger
Sherman stamp.
And here are the polit ical, military,
family, and Catholic relations which
it would fetch in:
My interlocutor remarked that the
Camerons in Pennsylvania would be
for the great connection; that Logan
would be in Illinois, because he was
Sherman's corps commander; and
that Arthur would be, because he
could beat Blaine's nomination with
nobody else. John Kelly, I suppose,
will be for him for the reasons given
that they are brothers in-law in
the church. Now, the Blaines and
the Ewings are also kin. Mrs. Sher-
man has come to the relief of Mr..
Blaine publicly, being a woman of
abundant courage. 81
Thus are Pope and Puritan, Catho-
lie and Protestant, saint and sinner,
Blaine and John Kelly, Arthur and
the Garfield mourners, the army and
the blood and marriage relatives, the
bosses and the lambs, the priest, the
world, the flesh and the devil, and
that most successful of jockeys of
Presidential candidates, Halstead
NJ, all to be enlisted under General
Sherman's banner for the Presi-
dency. Surely, when all these are
taken into Sherman's ark none will be
left to dissent.