Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-25
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1883.
Sherman's Strength.

Our Washington correspondent sad IN
Yesterdays Dispatch that the claim OF
MIR. SHERMAN's friends as TO his proba-
bic strength on the first ballot in the
Chicago Convention was not conceded
10 be q reliable or valid one by the
friends OF other candidates OF course
not. There is skeleton in Mr. SHERMAN's
house that Will frighten even his professed
friends. "Sleep no more :" MACBETH
SHERMAN. 1t was an Ohio man that
pushed TILDEN from the presidential
stool in 1877, and another Ohio man was
conspicuous when all this WAS going on,
not by his absence but by his presence
in unaccustomed places and where he
had no other or better business than that
Of providing for the seating Of Mr..
HAYES in the Executive char.
Is it within "the orbit Of probable
ty"-to use GEORGE EMOT's illustra-
tion-that the sharp, shrewd leaders OF
the Republican party-the same wire
workers. or the same kind Of wire-work-
ers. that nominated the Democrat
GRANT in 1868 and 1872, HAYES OF
Ohio in 1876, and GARFIELD of Ohio
in 1880. will allow SHERMAN Of Ohio to
be nominated in 1SSS?-SHEBMAN, who
Is not only, as we have said, an Ohio
man. but who was one of the men who
placed the Ohio candidate Of 1876 in the
presidential chair
Mr.. DErEw, Of New York, who has
declined to be considered a candidate for
President this year, declined in the in
terest of Mr.. BLAINE nominally, but
really in the interest of himself.
Mr.. DEPEw well knew that neither he
nor any other man could hope for sue
cess as against Mr.. Blaine. He also
knew that SHERMAN could not get the
nomination, and that his (DEPEw's) de-
clination would strengthen him with
the BLAINE delegates, who will rule the
Chicago Convention. If SHERMAN had
possessed any real strength, DEPEw
would not have declined to be considered
a candidate, but would have felt COM
PEELED to keep up his candidacy rs q
means OF preventing his friends from
going over to SHERMAN. The so-called
SHrEMAN movement or boom in Ohio
did not deceive DEPEw. lie treated it
Is If it had been-as it was and is-a
mere shell.
Mr.. SnERiAs's friends count upon a
solid delegation from Virginia. VIII he
get IT? No The Petersburg Conven-
ton, and the MALONE congressional dis
trict caucuses that viii be held during its
sessions, will no doubt elect a delegation
solid for SHERMAN but the BLAINE men
will not be likely to submit to such a
wrong. They now have leader. Captain
JOHN S. WISE will probably induce them
10 do what we have for months been
telling them they would have to do or
be entirely swamped. He will 90 to
Petersburg, and if refused a seat In the
convention, as he probably will be re-
fused, he will head movement
that will result in sending a
BLAINE delegation to Chicago. In
deed, Mr.. L1BBEY has already called
a convention in the Norfolk district.
These delegates will find at Chicago a
convention a majority of whose mem
bers will be BLAINE men. All these
BLAINE men know that in the National
Conventions Of 1880 and 1884 Mr.. SHER-
MAN antagonized BLAINE, and they will
therefore be glad of a good excuse for
turning out MALONE and his gang
In fact, Captain JONI 5. WISE is
quite as strong with the Republicans
OF the North as is General MALONE. He
is next to MALONE in influence with the
Republicans Of Virginia-superior If
white votes only be counted. If, there
fore, We shall not prove to be mistaken
n our forecast, the exhibition of SHER-
MANS strength, or rather weakness. on
the first ballot in the Chicago Conven-
ton will sound the death-knell of his
hopes.