The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-29
TECUMSEH SHERMAN
BOUND TO Bk, THE NEXT PRESIDENT
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tho aAs-rhs Great Amsrieaa PrssidsstiAi
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steadily through the winter following, an,
at the Cincinnati convention, ! wrote al
tho newspapers that Hayes would Be sh,
next President. They laughed at me, ant
Hayes himself wrote me that I was wrong
When long In advance Of the Chicago
convention l wrote Garfield and the news
papers and every delegate to the Chicago
convention that GAr6eld's nomination wa
inevitable, l. was again accused Of folly
and Garfield wrote me that there. was nj
chance at all for him. The Chicago Time.
printed my prediction Of Gartleld'a nomin
alton while the delegates were assembling
and It's clever paragrapher twitted me-
nicely over it'too, and friendly Indians al
over the country sent me copies Of 'theil
papers enclosing IN blue and red pencil
marks their clever bits at my folly and alb.
surdity. Several months ago when I pre-.
dicted through your columns and those oi
the New York Sun and Chicago Times tha,
Gen. Sherman IL the man for 1854, the
brilliant paragraphers again broke loose
and took me to task for the temerity and
absurdity OF the prediction. u = gi! ~,
IT WILL CONE TO PASS.
On the 4:h Of March, 1885, on the east.
ern portion Of the National Capitol will
stand up to be sworn In as the President OF
the United states the greatest and purest
public man OF our times, The; veteran war.
rior and accomplished orator, General
Sherman. He Is the greatest. soldier after
Grant, and Grant has had his two terms.
The succession naturally deyolves on Gen
eral Sherman. The Nation says 30. All
It's historic precedents, from that OF Wash.
ington to jackson and Taylor and Grant,
Say 60. Judges have never yet succeeded
in our politics. The mere politician and
the orator have uniformity been set aside
for the greatest living warrior. It Is found.
ed in human nature from the days Of Da.
yid and Caesar 10 the days OF Grant. The
Republic lives aaores its greatest living
successful General, and by the universal
consent OF men and women in the country
that man is Gen. Sherman.
The statesman at Washington begin TO
see. the shadows .of. the crowning coming
event, The daily press begins to catch on
to the demand OF thasoldie1s and the Ma.
ton.
- IT 10 sISEyITABLE. g.s
Gen. Grant once: asid Gen. Sherman is
the greatest Of living puators. He is. Let
any one read his speethes as + have done
ior, the past eighteen years, and he will be b
convinced Of that. Read his speeches in
the proceedings Of the Society OF the Army
OF the Tennessee, in two large printed vol.
umes, and then yon will see that the great.
est soldier in America is also the greatest
orator. He don't want the Presidency, but
the Presidency wants him, and he cannot
get out oil it. To be sure few bigois in the
Republican party are worried because Mrs,
Sherman is q Catholic. II may be this OBJ.
jeclion may rule him out Of the Chicago
Convention. II it does the Democrats will
take him up and elect him. Indeed, II
that party had any sense, which 1t never
had it would cali ils convention in ad-
vance OF ours, and steal our candidate.
But that is not its policy. Its plan is to
wait until the Republicans act the fool and
reject Gen. Sherman, then take him o. d
eiect ulul Will Og'Q0Odle, MP roar
Ing, tumul.uous howl, which they can
easily do. IGES gfl5T'z ~ y
~ I'm IT Is OUR ONLY CHANCE. H' n
| General Sherman has all the soldiers,
He is man Of the people. He touches at
every point, goes everywhere, gathers
them all lin, is the most popular idol Of the
common people, has, I'll. the elements Of
popularity because he comhinea ali tha