The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-24

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| serve under Hayes, and even followers
! from his own state. who were IN the
ranks when Sherman was by far the
most prominent republican II congress
from Ohio. It's true he had dis
| tinguished comrades in this fate.
t Evarts, like himself, was far ahead of
their chief IN ability and achievement,
and many ca binet ministers before and
since have looked down on the presi-
dent who called them to his councils
Blaine. with both Garfield and Har-
rison, Webster with Tyler, Freling-
| huysen with Arthur. ali experienced
| the modification of serving Under men
| they could not have recognized as their
equals. But, perhaps, hereafter t will
| be a greater glory to Sherman TO have
been secretary of the treasury and
the accomplished representative than
to have sat as president in q disputed
chair.
/ can speak Of Senator Sherman
without partially, for he once strove
to dispossess me of an Office that the
president was determined l should re-
claim. l was consul general at Lon
don under Grant, and when Hayes
came in ne promised his predecessor
should not be disturbed. Secretary
sherman knew of this promise, but he
was under no obligation to regard
Gen. Grants wishes or mine. He
doubtless hoped to induce his chief to
change his mind, for when he wanted
the place of collector OF New York for
one of his own friends he offered
Chester Arthur, an incumbent at the
time, to procure him my post at Lon
don. This Mr.. Arthur himself told me,
but the bargain was beyond Sher-
mans power to accomplish. Arthur
refused to accept the offer and Mr..
Hayes told me afterward that he would
not have indorsed it. So Arthur was
displaced for Merritt and l was left at
London. But Arthur was rewarded
by Grants friends with the nomina-
ton for vice president. and on Gar
fields death he stepped into his shoes.
Had Sherman succeeded in BUSTING
me, the presidency in 1881 would have
had different incumbent.
The letters of the two brothers
Sherman betray a warmth of feeling
on the part of John which to many
must be revelation. He has usually
been considered cold, the opposite of
his magnetic, impetuous brother; but
sometimes your undemonstrative peo-
pie have a depth OF feeling which
equals that of those whe seem more
passionate on the surface. Gen. Grant
once told me story of newspaper
man who said he had just come from
Sherman. 1t was the eve of a pres
idential nomination and the senator
was an aspirant. He put his arm
around the reporter and drew him
aside to ask: Il am not really as cold
as they say; do you think | an?' The
man may have invented the story, but
to me there was touch Of sadness in
it. If this politician, unable to impress
the world with his real nature, had
been struggling ali these years with
the mask of manner that concealed
his real feeling and INSTRUCTED its ex-
preston: if his distant behavior had
repealed those whom he desired to at
tract; if the y.arm-hearted brother
whose true sentiment is betrayed in
the letters he now gives to the world
had grown anxious and asked d
friend whether he was really SO cold,
many might feel stroke of pity for
the nature that has been cloaked in
and so long. 1t may be
the same anxiety that invited the re-
porter's sympathy and now draws
aside the veil that covered his fraternal
love, and tells the whole world he has
q heart; he is not cold.