St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-24
SHERMAN'S HOPES.
They Are Revived by Unshaken.
Hand Foraker and Willy Harri-

son.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-Whatever
may have been attributed to the unwse
or unskilled generalship of William
Lawrence, of Bellefontaine. in the
earlier stages of the Sherman canvass.
he has now been re-establiShed as the
directing head. For two days Lawrence
has made his home at Sherman's house.
Tonight he left for New York Oh con-
hdential mission. From what | could
gather from him by indirectiOn the
effort of Sherman's friends will now be
to chill the growing boom of Gresham.
Its expansion has been deSpairing to
the Sherman forces, and they openly
charge that some of Blaine'S lieutenants
are behind it-not with an honest pur-
pose, but to distract the followers of the
Ohio candidate. This view comes from
the Sherman lines. What, however, l
believe, is that Sherman and Ben Har-
rISOn have united their inter-cOn-
tlngent for an offensive alliance against
Gresham. Harrison is to turn his
forces to Sherman rather than Gresham
should succeed, and Sherman to Har-
rlSon to intercept such an alternative.
Ine ridiculous feature of such combi-
nation is that neither can command his
own following. Mir. Sherman has but
little support upon which he can posi-
lively rely to follow his personal die
tates. Take away from him the Indiana
machine and the boom vanisheS,
With some sense of relief John Sher-
man has read Foraker's Virginia cor
respondence. Letters had reached him
that Ohlo'S governor had openly be-
trayed diSlOyalty in an attempt to inter
ShnrmD1n-S
mlnlon. Coming to the Ohio candidate
in an intensified and magnified form.
little wonder is it that it gave him pain
While the publication of the CORE
spondence at FOraker's suggestion acts
as Sedative, still the query is, why the
necessity for such an exchange of
views? 1t certainly does not smack of
an intense desire to aid the Ohio sen-
ator's ambitions. Foraker might as well
know it is not. Sherman does not have
faith in him, but he can not afford to
dlScredlt him OF haye an open rupture
with him.
The Sherman men, who have had a
sort OF Informal conference here within
the last few days, do not think there has
been any change in the situation which
should bring Blaine to the front again.
They have been convinced, however,
that some of Blaine's fool friends" as
they call them, without his sanction in
any degree, are hard at work to bring
about his nomination, They claim to
have been advised only a day or two
ago of the work of Blaine missionary
sent out by Platt and Elkins, who has
Just completed a tour through fifteen
states, ostenslbly as correspondent of
a Philadelphia paper, but with the real
purpose of passing the word to all of
the old Blaine crowd and as many of
the delegateS-elect as can be trusted
with the secret, not to commit them
selves to other candidates.
The Sherman managers are also ad-
VlSed III detail of scheme to stampede
the convention, Alabama leading off
with few votes for Blaine, Arkansas a
few more, and so on until PENNSYLVANIA
throws her solid vote for him and the
nomination shall be effected with a gen
eral hurrah, and without second ballet.
EX-Gov. Foster, who is a sort of chief
engineer of the Sherman movement.
was asked whether he had heard of
these things and admitted that he had.
but he knew nothing as to the truth of
them.'
Il believe" he said, "that Mr.. Blaine's
withdrawal was made in perfect good
faith, and that it any such scheme is
being worked it is without his knowl-
edge or consent. Sherman is gaining
every day with Republicans who do
their own thinking, and | expect to see
him nominated, and if nominated
elected. There is more noise than anv-
thing else in the Gresham movement.
Only one state has instructed for him.
and that is not his own.