Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-04-21
LITTLE PHIL.

His Friends Said to BE Again Pushing His
Name for the Presidential Place.
Mr.. James r. Young, in recent letter to
the Philadelphia Star, says:
s" am told that the men who favor the
nomination of General Sheridan as the Re-
publican candidate for the Presidency are
about to renew the boom they started for
him some time ago, and which was making
the rounds of the country so satisfactorily
when the General gave it a sudden halt by
declaring that under no circumstances
would he be candidate. These gentlemen
claim to have iptimations that Sheridan can
be prevailed on to reconsider his declina-
ton. Ex-senator Conkling, who is thought
to be deep in the scheme to nominate Sher-
idan, is man who does not give up easily
when once he starts in. He hangs on tena-
ciousIy, and, like bulldogs grip, he is
hard to shake off.
It is said that Sheridan is considerably
worked-up over the Vest-Ingalls- Blackburn
debate in the Senate last week-espec
in regard to Mr.. Vests belittling the Grant
campaign from Petersburg to AppomattSx
by his assertion that Lee, with mere hand
full OF men. was only beaten because of the
overwhelming numbers Grant had against
him. Sheridan was the conspicuous figure
in that campaign, and it naturally riles him
to have any one in authority like Senator
Of the United States. whose statements
make history, attempt to dwarf it's impor-
lance. He is thought to have his political
dander up. and hence he is ready to do any
thing that may be asked of him by his
party friends. Sheridan is possessed of q
great sense Of gratitude, and it is said that
if he should be nominated by the Republic
an convention he would feel in duty bound
to accept.
s'Sheridan's refusal to allow his friends
to push him fer q nomination does not come
from any dislike he has for politics, or any
idea that, as against Cleveland, he would
have no show for an election. l have heard
his friends say that although he looked the
picture of good health, the General has mis-
g1vings at times whether or not his physical
condition was not seriously impaired by the
exposure and hardships he endured during
the war; No man in the army saw harder
service than Sheridan, and 1t IS notewor-
thy fact that of the great majority of the
fighting Generals of the war Sherman is
the only conspicuous one who has lived be-
yond the age Of iAty-three years, he having
just turned sixty-seven.
"Some eminent physicians, in comment
ing on this fact, have given it as their opin-
ion that the men who were actually engaged
in tho field for four years in such war as
that of the rebellion are not liable to survive
sixty years of age. Sheridan was fifty-seven
on the 9th of the present month. General
Grant died at sixty-three, and the following
fighting Generals had just turned sixty, or
were under that age, when they died:
Mead, Thomas, Hancock, Hooker, Halleck,
Logan, Frank Blair, Warren, Griffin (who
succeeded Warren at Five Forks when he
was relieved of the command of the Fifth
Corps, Humphrey (who was Hancock's
successor in the Second Corps, Fitzpatrick,
Mckenzie, Wright (the Commander of the
Sixth Corps. Geary, jeff c. Davis, Ord,
Hazen, Mower, Morgan, Giles Smith and
Granger.