The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-15
GEN. SHERMAN.
Talk or Him Is . Presidential Candi.
date.

Talk or Him IS = Presidential CRndi.
date.
George Alfred Townsend
There is the greatest anxiety among the
ofhceholders to find somebody to run for
president in 1884 The Democrats generally
think the Republicans are going to nominate
General Sherman 1t is barely possible that
Sherman thinks 50 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 . presidential possibility. His dispo-
sition to run might be enlarged BY seeing
his brother John out of the way for the pres
ent, though some think that John believes he
may have another turn Sherman would
make brilliant president-something on the
style Of Andrew Jackson I mean General
Jackson. He is hot-headed, though rather
cool-hearted, man He has 8 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 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 man
Of family, of household affections. and of a
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, inexpressible blows at Sherman,s
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 his DAVIS
when suddenly it was announced that the bow
had resolved to enter the priesthood l have
heard that for some time Sherman felt rather
bitterly toward his wife on that account; but,
his natural instincts and magnanimity 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 war
department even in matters strictly pertain
ing to the army. He is one Of the most intel
hgent men ever came in contact with. Grant
had a domestic, instructive nature without
any imagination, and his conversations were
generally narrative and plain. Sherman has
a mind like his face, with thunderbolt in it;
and, his faculties being unimpaired he ought
to be now wiser and mellower man than
ever before. He knows considerable of every
thing. Educated in the military academy, he
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
a 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 a 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 threw himself
into the northern army
Most of the generals children partake of
their mothers affectionate domestic nature
recollect being in St Louis about five or six
years ago, when, sauntering into the opera one
evening, l found an empty seat near Mrs.
Sherman. She asked me who was for for
president, and then answered the question
herself by saying: "There are two men l
hope woA't get it; one of them is Grant and
the other Sherman, meaning her husband