Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-11-04
To Be Put Forward by the RepubI.
cans as Their Only Possible
Chance for
Escaping Utter AnnihilatiOn In 1854
Brother John Quietly Working
Up the Movement.

ABOUT two weeks ago, when "Iecum5eh
Club" was organized at Cleveland, Q.
The club IS pledged to the advocacy of
Sherman for the Presidency, and it is nota-
bic that the list of members includes some
of the most prominent Republicans of
Cleveland. This has suggested the idea
that the Hon. John Sherman, no longer
considering himself an available caudi-
date, has put himself behind the move
ment in favor of his brother and will
endeavor TO deliver a solid Ohio dele
CATION to him This opinion is made
plausible by the assertion of an
influential Ohio Republican now in Wash
ington, that the Cleveland club is to be
lumbus, Lancaster, Toledo, Cincinnati and
other points in the State. The same gem
tleman alleges that a general movement is
to be inaugurated in that direction, and
that Sherman clubs will be organized in.
every State of the Union. The boom is to
receive special encouragement from the
members OF the Society of the Army
OF the Cumberland among whom
Sherman enjoys an immense popu-
larity. -Four years ago a Sherman club
was organized in st. Louis, and it is said
! that this club has recently been revived
and will undertake 10 give him u strong
vote from Missouri. Sherman's retire
| ment on November 1st instead of next
February, when his retirement by law
would take place, and the establishment
OF his residence in Missouri is believed by
many to be a part OF the plan. A leading
Democratic Congressman, while speaking
| yesterday of the Sherman movement,
expressed the belief that Sherman's
| nomination is the forlorn hope of the Re-
publican party. "No party in this coun-
try" said he, lever found itself in such a
critical position as the Republicans now
occupy. Practically, it has no leadership.
Blaine is no longer a leader, Conkling re-
! fuses to be comforted to such an extent
that he delights in Democratic victory.
and John Sherman, believing himself to
| be the victim of ingratitude, has relin-
/ quished his grip on party reins. To
! talk OF Arthur as a leader is alb
surd. Ohio, the home OF Garfield,
! OF whose assassination Arthur is the
| beneficiary, would bury him with 5000
ma jority, and he could never touch bot
| tom in his own State of New York In
| fact the crisis is such that there must be
new leader and Gen. Sherman is the man.
! His hands at least are clean. He is not
stuck in the mire of corruption that be-
fouls almost every prominent Republican
who has been before the country for the
last twenty years. / believe there is
| formidable movement in his behalf simply
for these reasons. In fact l know it to be
| the opinion of many Republican leaders
that Sherman is about the only available
candidate who eau save the party from
utter annihilation.
The retirement of Sherman has lately
prompted an inquiry as to the amount OF
money the eN-commander will carry into
private life. Although the quality OF
avarice is one from which the Sherman
/ family Ii not generally deemed to be ex-
empt, it is we'll known that the general
has never evinced 4 conspicuous degree of
financial talent. In California, as the
head of the banking house of Lucas, Tur-
ner * Co, he was 4 decided failure, and
after Il somewhat humiliating collapse was
constrained to accept the supeTintendency
OF an embrvotic military academy in
Louisiana at $4,000 per year. When he
went into the army he was superintend-
ent OF the Fifth street railway in st. Louis
at the not princeiy salary OF S2500, and at
that time it was matter OF some ingen-
uity to support his growing family in
substantial comfort. BY the way, it is
fact not mentioned before that, in accept
cepting the superintendency of the st.
Louis street railway Sherman became the
successor OF the notorious Col. Blood, who
deserted his wife and Ave children in Mis-
souri, to run away with the malodorous
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff, to whom he bore
the relation of adulterous annex for
several years, until she shipped him for a
new favorite 1t was the place left vacant
by that noted elopement that Sherman
took. Since the war Sherman has re-
ceived in houses and convertible presents
; $4,000. This does not include the
$4,000 gift OF diamonds from
: the Khedive of Egypt, which
the general divided among his daughters.
, The properly estimated at S5G, 900 he still
I has. During the last fifteen years he has
received a salary OF Sl7 800. 1t is under
( stood that the general has during that
time lived at the rate OF $4,000 year; in
: other words, that he has saved $500 an
| nually, or, for the entire time, say sll5,-
0O0 The property above noted would
swell the amount 10 Sl65, 900. But this
f does not represent all the possessions put
: down to the credit of Gen. Sherman. He
! owns number OF valuable lots in
the high-priced part of st. Louis known
as 'Stoddards Addition" These lots were
bought by Gen. Sherman in 1912 at a tri-
fling sum, when they were selling by the
acre, and they viii now exceed $4,000
, III value. Besides these figures, Gen.
t Sherman is reported TO be the owner of
1 Kansas lands to the value of S50,0O0. II
= these estimates are correct, and they are
based on manifestly good authority-to
: Il great extent on his own word
t ten. Sherman is worth on his retire.
ment the comfortable sum OF S275, 900, the
t interest upon which would alone furnish
: him the means OF luxurious living, even if
he did not continue to draw his salary of
5 Sl7, 500 per year, to which he is entitled
| as long as he lives. 1t will be seen from
5 this that Gen. Sherman is far from being n
r poor man, and is well prepared to take on
! himself the burdens incident to a Presi-
: dental candidacy.
1t can and should be said9of Sherman
} that though he retires with plenty of the
worlds goods, no suspicion of peculation
: has ever attached TO him. He leaves the
/ service of the government as he came into
il, with "clean hands"
The sensation of the week in Washing
Ton has been the fierce fusilade of public
Indignation against the coTmorant claim
! and pension agents who infest every nook
! and Granny OF the national capital. Re-
cent developments have shown that
there are something over 200 of these
so-called attorneys" in this city who
have for years pursued a system OF practice
that would in any other country have put
them behind the bars of a penitentiary
: cell. They have fed upon all classes OF
people who happen to have claims at Wash
ington, but the ex-soldiers entitled to PEN
sions, and their widows and children have
, been the special victims OF their swindling
schemes. There are 303, 900 names on the
army pension roll, and as under the law
the list OF names had to be published,
the agents have had ample facilities
| for communicating with them, and it
J is estimated that 100, 600 pensioners have
, been defrauded of sums ranging from S.
to $50. The means employed is the de-
ceptive circular offering to take hold of
claims and TO secure larger amounts than
the law allows, and then bleeding the con-
fiding claimant by exacting advances for
fictitious costs and expenses. Commis-
, sioneT Dudley said to-day that he had no
doubt that the frauds thus accomplished
would aggregate 81, $4,000. Distriot-At-
! torney Corkhill has taken hold of the mat
! ter, and has expressed determination
TO have all the. men vino have been en-
! gagged in this disreputsble business pre-
: sented by the grand jury. He has received
: hundreds of letters from various portions
: of the country, and he says he has the
+ most overwhelming proof of the guilt of
3 three-fourths OF the claim agents in Wash
: ;ngton. He has been assured by the At
) torney-GeIeral that the government will
: afford every possible assistance in the
/ prosecution and conviction of these
: men. When these trials take place
5 it Is expected that they will
. be among the most sensational proes-
/ .~>r ~ L.