St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-16
WORKING THE WIRES.
Sherman Of Ohio Being Groomed for the
Presidential Race.
Harrison and Morton Working for
Second Place.
The Days Dotngs at the National
Capital.
sherman,s Aspirations.

Sherman's Aspirations.
Special to the Globe
New YORK, May 1.-two breakfasts
given in Gotham are the subject of no little
speculation in the quiet political circles
where the significance of small things is
carefully scanned. On the morning after
the Ohio society banquet. Whitelaw Reid
gave breakfast to John Sherman, Ben
Harrison and William Mckinley, Jr. What
the political gossipS want to know is
whether it was merely social affair or
whether 1t has a bearing On the fortunes of
1888. Mr.. Reid is known, aside from
his established editorial prominence. to be
society man." When he came to
New 7 DIRK it was as worker on the press.
When he had attained eminence and wealth
he found his position enhanced by cultiya-
ton of the social world of New York, in
the sense of complying with its niceties and
forms, and requirements. He is member
OF clubs without number, president of the
LotoS, and officer in half dozen more He
has penchant for dining, or dining with,
distinguished persons. His means of Sc
curing information about great movements
in politics and craftsmanship all over the
world have undoubtedly been increased by
these connections. Under this light the
DASeeNAooo III duCoIiOu may nave Uceu
PURELY SOCIAL AFFAIR.
But the gossipers will have it otherwise.
They insist that Senator Ben Harrison's
speech at the banquet of the the previous
night. in which he withdrew from the pres
identia, race until Ohio should be satisfied,
was in dead earnest, and that he is pre-
pared to fall into John Shermans train,
with the exception Of going into his cabinet
as secretary of state. Mckinley is known
as Sherman's warmest advocate for the
presidency in 1883. He has not ALWAYS
been the most devoted adherent Of
Sherman. At Chicago in 1880 he
was more than suspected Of being
in the Garfield movement, now
know to have been carefully planned for
weeks and months before the nomination.
In 1884 he was Blaine man in a Sherman
cloak, and acted throughout the convention
in conjunction with the Blaine forces and
as one of their leaders on the floor. Foraker,
who was the loyal Sherman man OF the
delegation, by singular coincidence is now
accounted Blaine man of ardent type,
with expectations Of the vice presidency
running through his brain. That these
three. Sherman, Harrison and Mckinley,
SHOULD be asked to breakfast with the editor
of the
AsADlNt RESUBLlCAN PAPER
OF the county, may therefore have signifi-
canoe which the gossips are not slow to de-
clare. They assert that Reid, who was for
Blaine in 1884, is sizing up the political
tide with view to getting his paper into
the largest current, in the Republican
stream. Whatever his object is, it is certain
that the Sherman people were f1attered bv
the attention. and are half persuaded that
they have made a convert of Reid, which
Blaine's friends, however, utterly scout.
Tneir version is that the breakfast was
purely social. The second breakfast was
on Monday and was given by Levi p.
Merton. The distinguished guests were not
numerous. The central figure was Con-
gressmen Mckinley, and the others were
New York city men of stalwart Republican
preclivities and solid pocketbooks. 1t gees
without saying that Mr.. Merton would ac-
cept the vice presidency. His name is men
toned frequently in connection with the
necessity Of carrying New York, and is as
often alluded to by the friends of Mr..
Blaine as by those of other candidates.
His name was coupled with that of Mr..
Sherman, and at the Ohio banquet he was
nominated for vice president there in con-
splcuous manner by several of the speakers.
His breakfast to Mckinley is said to have
SSSAA
gentleman into
CLOSE AND CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONS
With the solid Republicans of New York.
who may be relied upon to whoop it I'D for
Sherman and Morton. 1t has added signi-
ficance that Mr.. Mckinley still fingers here.
His plea Is that he is on the sick list. but
the number of leading Republicans with
whom he is in communication, and the call
on him at the Windsor hotel. precludes the
idea that he is too i'll to attend to his con-
gressiond duties, if something more i'm
portant to him was not On the carpet. II
may be set down as certain that MCKINLEY
has the Sherman boom on his back. and
is working New York politicians and Morton
for all they are werth in that behalf. MIR.
Blaines friends smile when the Sherman
ties talk loud, as they have been doing here
for week. but say nothing. am told.
however, that they have put in peg or
two in different directions to trip the hon
orable Johns aspirations. One Of their
shrewd movements is to bring out Foraker
as candidate for vice president. Another
is to coddle Charley Foster with senatorial