St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-28
How the Friends of Sherman and Logan
Have Been Shrewdly Led Astray
By Blaine's Henchmen.
Attitude on Southern State
Governments.
Conkling Throws Out Hint That He
Still Loves the People
Very Much.
would-Be Presidents.

was never so much a candidate as he is to-
day. No one knows better than he does
that he was betrayed in 1880 by men from
his own state, who went to Chicago pre-
tending to be his friends. After the fight
in his own state that year for the delega-
ton, and after being chagrined by Blaines
success in capturing portion of the Ohio
delegates. Sherman had right to feel that
the men who did go to the convention rep
resenting his candidacy would be true to
him. But no man was ever so basely be-
Tayed. and nothing but the tragic death of
Garfield prevented the complete exposure
long since of his and Charley Fosters
CRUEL BETRAYAL
of John Sherman. No amount of after
death gush will ever obliterate from the
minds of John Sherman's real friends the
knowledge of the treachery of which he
was the victim that time. Cold blOoded
though the Ohio senator may be, it has
never yet been written of him that he be-
trayed friend. and when he dies this one
trait of character will put him long way
ahead of some of OhiO'S dead sons i'm his
tory. Again in 1884, when Sherman had a
right to expect a united delegation from his
own state. Blaine and his friends bitterly
opposed him, and again divided the delega-
ton. and men who went TO that convention
pledged to Sherman, openly and secretly
worked for the Hooking Valley statesman
from Maine. John Sherman belongs to the
old guard Republicans in Ohio. He was
brought up to believe in the Republicanism
of Ben Wade, Joshua Giddings and men of
that stripe. He stands. and did stand head
and shoulders above the Garfields, the
Hayses. the Fosters and some of the
ALLEGED PROMINENT MEN
in political life from Ohio at the present
time. For this he has incurred, not the
open ill-will of some of the youngSter states
men, but their secret and more deadly
treachery, and these men and their treach-
cry the knight from Maine has been prompt
to make use of. Without Sherman's lead
ership the Juvenile politicians would long
since have wrecked the party in Ohio. The
soda-water statesmen tiZ and sputter, but
when the party gets in close quarters John
Sherman is called to the front. Will he be
more fortunate in 'SS than he was in 80
and 'S4? Will not the same political sneaks
be ready to betray him, and does not the
historian from Maine know it, and will ne
hesitate to use them again? No man is
more adept in the use of such implements.
These are questions that are, no doubt
floating through the head of the presiding
officer of the senate. If John Sherman
WANTS To BE PRESIDENT
he should guard well against Ohio treach-
cry. A man who has been twice betrayed
should not need warning. John A. Logan
sees candidates all about him, from Evarts
down to Blair, yet he pretends to some
people that such thing has never entered
his own head. Other people, however,
know differently. 1t is even said that his
literary bureau is already organized and in
charge of no less person than Col. Dan
Ray-until recently, believe. the head,
front and brains of an organization in Chi
'cago which had for its purpose the COM
plete publication of politics. Anyhow,
Logan is a candidate, and it cannot be de-
MED that, from appearances here, he is in
the lead at this writing. Logan has grown
immensely since his candidacy for vice
president, and he has gained strength in
the East. where he was before weak.
There lies back of him more of the old
army strength
THAN ANY OTHER MAN
in the country. The stalwart Republicans
believe in his Republicanism. The much
abused Southern Republicans believe he is
their friend. The talk of the college dudes
about Logan's bad grammar has helped
rather than hurt him. This country does
not care much for college sheepskins. But
Logan and his friends are uncertain about
one thing, and their uncertainty is their
weakness. They do not know whether
Blaine is going to be a candidate. Nobody
else seems to be in doubt about it. This
was LOgan's weakness in 1884. He allowed
the Blaine men to fool him. Steve Elkins
and Joe Chaffee made Logan believe that
Blaine would not be a candidate and that
he and his friends would all be for Logan.
I hnli tr.aA md ba or,f ,,aI af
of his best friends because they would not
believe it. No man was ever so
COMPLETELY FOOLED,
but the Blaine tactics were smart, both III
conception and execution. Logan and his
| friends. by all past associations, naturally
belonged with the friends and supporters
| of Gen. Arthur. Had such an alliance
been made Arthur would have been nomi-
mated and elected. A Republican adj
minisrration would now be in existence and
l do not doubt that LOgan's noisieSt and
most enthusiastic friend viii admit that
under such circumstances Logan would be
quite as near the White house as he is now.
| But the Blaine men fooled Logan. and
while in Washington they were filling his
ears and head full of the east wind of
Maine; they were setting up the pins to
beat him out of his own state delegation,
|
busy abusing Arthur, whose commission
many of them held that the delegation
from Illinois was composed of men many
of whom were more devoted to Blaine than
thep were to Logan. 1t is said that many
of the Illinois OflicehOlders appointed by
Arthur have
NEVER FoRGINEN
that gentleman for allowing his name to be
used, and they still talk about the treachery
of Jesse Spaulding, who blindly persisted
in being friendly to the man who appointed
him. With all Logan's strength he Is not
strong enough to have any doubts about
Blaine's position. The sooner he quaran-
tines his ears against Steve Elkins' mouth
and the sooner he gets his hackers to under
stand Blaine lis and will be till he dies" q
candidate. the better it will be for Logan.
John Sherman, twice betrayed. ought tC
know something about being betrayed
John Logan once fooled ought to know
something about being fooled. Sherman
and Logan are no more candidates than il
Evarts. The New York senator and hi:
friends believe that the candidate will
come from New York, and Evarts reall,
believes that he is a man of destiny. n,
one doubts his intellectually. However
something more is needed in presidential
candidate than an ability to string
SENTENCES OF INTERMINDABLE
lenth together in sections as freight train
are made up, with a red flag or green ligh
on the tail of each to keep them frou
telescoping. MIR. Eyarts may think the
have. but the people, the real Republicans
have not got over their old-time love for
man who is Republican at least half of tn
time. Neither have they forgotten. no
: will they forget. the very prominent paI
Mr. Eyarts played in bringing about tn