Wichita eagle., 1888-03-20

JOHN SHERMAN. enthusiasm it will be
necessary for the Senator to contribute
more than 500 to the campaign fund, as he
did in 1856, when the result OF the campaign
hung as with thread and he was candl-
date for reelection as Senator. 1t was III
that campaign that Senator Plumb, OF Kan
sas, made a short stay at the Republican
! headquarters on State street IN this city,
and, being shown the Sherman check for
500, said: 'Well, if it were not for the
name of the thing | would give $1,000 for
that check as a political nemento. would
| like to show it as a sample of Sherman S
! generosity. Why, sir, if l were candl-
date for reelection to the Senate out IN
Kansas and should contribute no more to
! the campaign upon the success Of which de-
pended my success than this measly 500. L
would be mobbed and my candidacy spewed
out by the party
"What part is Governor Foraker taking
| in aiding the Sherman people!" was asked
of prominent politician to-day.
mot turning hand. He has promised
to stand for delegate-at-large and Sherman
has asked him to make the speech present
ing his name to the convention, but Foraker
is doing nothing in personal way to ad-
vance the interests of Sherman"
''Who is the Dan Lamont in the Foraker
administrator
His private secretary, Charles L. Kurtz,
a mighty slick politician, who sees that the
movement to organize Foraker clubs all over
the State is not allowed to lag. Before the
withdrawal of Blaine Kurtz was great ad-
mirer of that gentleman. but since the Flor
ence letter he is most busily engaged in see
ing that the rods which might protect his
chief from the Presidential lightning are
carefully removed"
1t has been source of the greatest Won
der here that Senator Sherman has con-
sidered it necessary In the interest OF his
Presidential candidacy TO change front on
the question of Chinese immigration. and
to warmly advocate the resolution author
iZing the President to secure treaty with
China tending to bar Chinese laborers for
ever out of this country. 1t has all along
been understood that he was favoraSly dis
posed to restricted Chinese immigration,
as shown by his vote in the Senate on the
Miller bill, but this turning about on his
record OF lifetime shows that he is badly
in need of a support on the Pacific coast
that he had previously allenated by his rec
ord on the Chinese question. This death
bed repentance is not favorably received
by many of his friends, who imagined that
all that was correct and pure in politics had
an abiding-place under the hat Of Mr.. Sher-
man.
The most troublesome thing just now to the
Sherman forces is the fact that the Repub-
icans in many of the Congressional districts
do not take kindly to the cut and dried
programme agreed upon Of electing dele
gates to the National convention at district
conventions held previous to the State con-
ventIon at Dayton. Already there are signs
Of trouble On this score, committeeman in
several districts refusing to set aside the
mode of procedure as determined upon by
the State convention just to suit the aspira-
tons of the Senator, whom they propose to
knife at the first opportunity.
Senator Sherman should come to Ohio
again and deliver another and revised set
of orders. At the same time he should get
an affidavit from Governor Foraker that he
is still solid for Sherman.