Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-26
OLD POLITICAL ALLIES.
The Friendship Between liar
 rison and Sherman.
WILL THE LATTER GET A PLACER

A Bit of Political History that Would
 Seem to Indicate an Affirmative Answer. |
 Editorial Opinions in Scrap Book. |
 The President-EIect's Menagerie.
 NEW YORK, Nov 26.-The Suns Indian apolis correspondent telegraphs as follows:
 The story of the friendship of Gen. Harri- l son for John Sherman is an interesting little side issue in the current of cabinet talk that prevails everywhere except at the residence of the president-elect, Sherman and Harri- l son, as Republican senators from adjoining states, and men of similar tastes and manner of life, naturally acquired degree of lptlr macy while they were together Ill Washing ton. This friendship has been cemented by incidents that would have had but little effect upon some men, but that make a stronger claim than any mere politics upon man with Harrisons knack of never forgetting a friend The story cannot be told now per fectly as to all its details, except by the gen. eral himself, or by one or two other men, who are not likely to make public property of it, but substantially the facts are these:
 In 1886, when Harrisons term in the sen- ate was about expiring, he was making a life and death struggle for himself and party in the legislative election in this state. At it's beginning he wrote to the leading Repub- ]ican orators of the country asking their aid in the way of speeches through the state in battle which was bound to have great eff feet upon the party all over the country. Only one man responded favorably to this appeal, and that was John Sherman. Sher- man came to his help in time of need and when other party associates held away, and from that time there has always been in the heart of the president-elect a very warm feeling of friendship for the Ohio senator.
 The fortunes of the political war put them against each other at Chicago this year. Yet even then it was always understood that the 1 Harrison leaders, most of them, preferred Sherman for second place, and had Sher- mans strength ever been enough to have placed the nomination within probable reach
 it is almost certain that whatever strength 1 Harrison personally could have directed i would have gone to help him on. Sherman | made a tour of Indiana in 1886, speaking in | many of the large cities and winding up at ! Indianapolis about ten days before election
 Another complication less pleasant than the
 sentiments of the general rose out of that
 visit to this city. Sherman
 tertained here on the night of his
 speech by Maj Holstein, and at a dinner
 before the meeting the guests with him in
 cluded John c. New, John B. Elam Gen.
 Harrson's partnorl, E. ". Halford, Gen.
 Fred Knefer, Gen. James R. Carnahan and
 Judge Byron R. Elliott. Either at this din-
 ner or at a subsequent conference, at which it is said Attorney General Kitchener and ex- Governor Porter were also present, the mat
 ter of the presidential nomination in 1888
 was talked over and an understanding was
 reached that while Indiana was to be for Harrison, it would turn to Sherman as soon
 as Harrison's nomination was found to be
 impossible. Sherman, on his part, agreed
 that he would help out Harrison if circum-
 stances should force him to withdraw from
 the fight himself.
 This agreement began to bear bothersome
 fruit when the Gresham movement reached
 proportions that made it appear likely to
 carry Indiana to Chicago for Gresham in
 stead of for Harrison When the arrange ment was entered into the nomination of
 Harrison seemed such a remote possibility that Sherman thought he had the bargain en-
 tirely in favor of himself but with Gresham
 looming up there necessity for making
 some dicker by which the Greshamites might , be brought into state of complacency to-
 ward Sherman. This could not be done while the agreement with the Harrison men held,
 and the friends of Sherman in Ohio began to
 write letters to Indiana disclaiming any force, so far they were concerned, in any 1 arrangement that Sherman might have made F with New or anybody else
 s The existence of these letters is presumably < known to Gen. Harrison. and may explain f the reason why no Ohio Republican except Sherman seems to be by him considered eligi. , ble to the cabinet. His tenderness for Sher- man does not extend to those friends ot Sherman who were so anxious to be of ? with one bargain in order to get on with a , new one
 q Fate is relentless to the unfortunate family
 of the president-elect. The beaver has beer I brought home. It was found miles out o1 S town. Mrs. Harrison says that the next I time she loses it she will do it so thoroughly e it will never be found alive.
 i Gen. Harrison says that he thinks he vii 6 establish a office, that of head keeper o1 f the administration menagerie. He has hi V eye on several applicants for cabinet places l. whom he considers eligible to the new post h Patient editors throughout the country wht
 are grinding out cabinets for the president
 elect will be pleased to know that thei
 labors are not entirely in vain. Russell liar Il rison is keeping scrap book of everything V that papers say that he thinks contains in Q formation that will be of use to his father n and ready made cabinets go in with the res l. of the stuff and pass under tM@ eyes of tn is general He says that lots of the newspape e cabinets are better than he can make him ,e self. There are practical difficulties in tn S. way of the president-elect that do no ,f hamper the newspaper cabinet makers u Supreme Court Clerk Noble gave a littl S. dinner few nights ago to the state officer d elect. Gen. Harrison was one of the guests le The ices with the dessert were made up int i- various fanciful shapes, and the one of then " that fell to Gen. Harrison's lot was tn iii figure of Chinaman. He ate it with Il relish and joined in cheerfully in the joke s. appropriate to the incident that passed abou
 the table
 Honoring Hendricks Memory. ,d INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 26.-The third ann