Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-28
PITFALLS OF OHIO POLITICS.
SuggestiOns Regarding Sherman for
Governor Questions TO be Settled.

Suggestions Regarding sherman Tor
Goyernor-Q Questions to be Settled.
CLEVELAND, O.. March 27.-Somebody at
Washington, ia the possession of more in
Genuity than information, has put forth
the proposition that Senator John Sherman
should run for Governor of Ohio on the
Republican ticket, with the idea that sue
cess would put him in the front rank Of
Presidential candidates, and that defeat
would leave'him just where he is now.
This proposition is based on the sYpposi.
ton that leading Republicans ia Columbus
have in solemn conference decided to ask the
Senator to run, and, in case of his refusal,
Ex-Governor and ex-President Hayes is to
be resorted to. This displays the value OF
the whole suggestion. as there are not 10
able. bodied.an same Republicans Of any
note in the State who would advance SER
iously the idea that Hayes should be put
at the head of the ticket.
Mr.. sherman
will not be the candidate for Governor on
the Republican ticket, nor will he seriously
contemplate accepting nomination there
for. lie has never been candidate before
the people for anything since his race for
Congress in the Mansfield district before he
was first mentioned in connection with the
Seratorship. His strength lies among the
party managers and in handling the poll
tical wires, and it would be with serious
mistrust of the result that his friends
would see him committed to
contest before the ballo.-box.
The situation is not cheerful certainly, but
its desperate character would d by no means
ha hu mis- hat N
must run to save the State. His strength
in certain directions would be matched by
undeveloped weakness in others, and the
aIsuu Pnt that has been advanced that he
could command financial resources outside
of the State that might not be open to other
candidates is one of the weakest that could
be put forward. The election Of last fall,
all over Ohio, demonstrated beyond the
touch of cavil that the man who is nomin-
ated now because of his money, or in the
expectation that he will buy his
way TO success is doomed to defeat from the
hour of his 'nomi nation. The people OF
Odio have travelled as far along that road as
their morals and traditions will allow, AID
have thought best that the leaders should
be ordered to right-about and 60 back into
The Good Old Track.
Not that money has not always been used,
out t0dL the CODIeSSlOu tudL n uldu Dc
run because he has money has never uutil
recently been formulated and put into
practical operation.
Whether or not Mr.. Sherman may still
have Presidential nomination, he alone
can say. 1t is natural to suppose that he
has, as the history of American politics
suggests thai conclus on. But even in that
case he would not gain anything by race
fer the Governorship, as the victory, il
gained, would be close and meagre, beyond
the mere fact that he had redeemed the
State against the almost universal expect1
tion that il would be lost; while defeat
would end his Presidential possibility and
compel him to sustain q loss OF prestige
that might be the cause Of future emblr
rassment.
Until the subject of a constitutions a
amendment on the liquor question is out
of the way, aad the danger OF an indepsnd-
ent Prohibition party is avertsd, it is use
less to tell what this man or that one can
do, or 10 decide the question of relative
strength. Until that day it is useless also
10 discuss the Senatorship, the Presidency,
or anything beyond the dangers of the
present situation. While Ohio, in hei
October election of this year, will sound
the advance note for 1854, it will not be {
decision of very great significance touching
national affairs, as the temperance anc
other local issues are more closely inter
woven With tn e situation than one at ;
first glance would suppose.