St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-14
STEALING sHERM ANS sTRENTH.
Brother Blaine Endeav0ring to
Weaken the Ohio Statesman.


Weaken the Ohio Statesman.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator Sher-
man, i'll his presidential aspirations, should
see to it that his so-caled friends do not
again desert him at the eleventh hour.
Just now the outwardly indications are that
he is again to be betrayed. Some time ago
the ticket of Blaine and Foraker was an
nounced from sources emanating in New
York city. Its origin to-day is
traced to Mr.. Blaine's friends, and
the announcement carried with it some
anxiety among John Sherman's genuine
friends, because forsooth, if Sherman hopes
to attain the nomination for the first place,
he cannot well afford to have an Ohio man
willing to take the second place Oh the Ma
tional Republican ticket. Sherman has
been twice defeated for the presidential
nomination because of,his inability to get his
own state behind him. Had Sherman at
the last Republican convention had the
forty-siX votes of Ohio solidly for him, his
nomination was by no means impossible.
1t became SO, however, from the very
jump, because nd could not
CONTROL HIS OWN STATE DELEGATION.
At this time Mr.. Sherman is much stronger
as candidate than he has ever been. He
has made strong alliances among New York
business men, who promise him quite for
midable support. The only problem Mr..
SHERMAN has to solve is to so hold Ohio
that it will present him as candidate in
dead earnest without yearning for second
choice. The talked-Of ticket of Blaine and
Foraker is started two years ahead of the
presidential convention with view to keen
Ohio divided. 1t is quite evident from all
surface indications that Mr.. Blaine will
again be candidate. Mr.. Blaine is stronger
with the element of the party which believes
in his popularity before the people than he
was two years ago. For instance, he will
not again be antagonized by the Mugwump
element IN Massachusetts. He will not
have the Vermont Republicans putting Ed
mundS to the front, for the reason that Mr..
Edmunds has lost ground in his own state
because of his apathy in the last campaign.
Just now he has no small contract on his
hands to secure his reelection to the SEN
ate. The aspirant Mr.. Blaine and his
friends most fear is John Sherman of Ohio.
They recognize that while Sherman has
not
A DEVOTED FOIL OWING,
he has strength among the class of men
who believe he would make good safe
president. Sherman has grown upon the
people because of his genuine ability. His
lacking ingredient. so far as himself is con-
cerned, is his failure to attract men to him
because of the want of what is called per-
sOnal magnetism. The problem with MIR.
Blaine's friends just now is to intercept
Mr.. Shermans candidacy by coaching an
Ohio man in the person of Corporal Foraker
for second place. Foraker has ALWAYS been
q warm Blaine adherent. 1t is
true he nominated John Sherman at the
presidential convention, but those who
heard his effort remarked at the time that
he had Invested himself of first-class
Blaine speech. Foraker is young yet, and
full of the vanities which attach to one of
less mature years in politics. He is under
no obligation to serve John Sherman at the
expense of his own advancement. Upon
this theory Mr.. Blaine'S friends throw out
to Foraker the vice presidential bait not
that they seriously incline to his candidacy.
but with the fixed purpose to weaken Sher-
man in Ohio, the place OF all others where
HE SHOULD BE STRONG.
So far as the external evidences 90 TO
show. the aim of Blaine and his friends
is to put the old ticket again in the field.
Logan for while may be obstinate. but
they count upon him yielding in the end,
Meanwhile Foraker is to be tickled with a
straw, to the end that Sherman NAV have
in his own state a powerful antagonist.
who will pull Mr.. Blane's chestnuts out of
the fire, under the fallacy that he is also to
be a beneficiary. This is the sum and SUBJ
stance of the ticket of Blaine and Foraker
already in the field