The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06

time in the State is John Sherman, ant
the other men OF prominence. botn Demo
Gratis and Republicans, have had to step tt
the rear with vinegar in their eyes and iror
in their souls. The leaders fight anon
themselves. There is n o harmony in either
Democratic or Republican party, ana Ohio
might have had two or three moro Presi
dents If her politicians had worked to.
gether John Sherman would have had q
seat in the White House had it not been
for his enemies in his own State. re-
member receiving a letter from the Gin
cinnati Times just before the nominating
convention OF 1880. suggesting that !
throw away my Sherman veil and buy a
pair of Grant spectacles. as the Times
thought General Grant ought to be the
nominee of that convention. The Clevs-
land Leader at this time was weundng
Blaine, and Sherman went to Chicago with
the dissensions in his State aud ,reachery
In his camp. 1t was the same with Allen
e. Thurman at three or four different con-
ventions. He had several chances for the
Presidency. but Ohio Knocked him out.
Old Zen Wade had a slight chance at the
convention which nominated Lincoln. but
Ohio men spread scurrilous stories about
Chicago concerning him, and he never
knew what SO easily caused his defeat.
was reminded of this fact the other
day as sat at breakfast with Governor
Il
hair has turned from black to gray within
the last few years. and he tells me- that he
has left politics for good. He was very
bitter ia ing of Sherman and said that
he wanted no assistance from him in any
way. He evidently regrets that he ever
entered politics, and hs now intends de-
voting himself to mOney-makirg and the
law. lie was. am told, just at the be-
ginning of fortune making when he &C
(TnVornnr
Ohio, and the year before he was nomi-
mated ha cleared about $4,000. He can
ro5ably make two or three times that TO-
day, and his career as statesman has
been. SO far as finances are concerned, a
dead loss. Foraker is. perhaps. the ablest
man in Ohio to-day. He may not have the
financial ability and the pure intellectual
strength of John Sherman, but he is
packed full Of personal magnetism. and
his friends are tied to him almost as
strongly as were those of Blaine to the
great Msine statesman. There are to-day
Foraker clubs scattered throughout Ohio,
and he will again be pushed to the front.
Speaking Of disappointed Ohio men, ex-
Secretary Foster is entitled to more SYM
pathy thar, perhaps, any other man in the
State Oh account of his financial losses and
on account OF his disappointed ambitions.
Foster has given more to the party in
money and time than any other man in
Ohio, and he has probably expended 500
where Mckinley has expended one. His
brains and money have done much In
making many campaign successful, and
when Garfield was made President every
one supposed that Governor Foster would
be the chief of his counseIors and would
be the leading Ohio man at The capital
during his administration. He had at this
time almost surety of being Garfield's
successor in the United States Senate.
and it was currently reported that he
would either take this place or be
one of the chief members OF Garheld's
Cabinet, heard the other day the story
of how he lost both of these positions. 1t
is somewhat similar to that of his recent
financial failure, and his fault was that he
trusted to his friends and they deceived
him. l get the facts from MIR. Thomas
Carrop. who was at that time in the Ohio
Senate, and was at this time one OF the
leading politicians of Ohio. He is now
practicing law at Los Angeles. but his big
interest in mines and ianos keeps nm IN
the East more than half the time. Carrnn
was at this time living at Cleveland. He
was close in the nfidence of Garfield and
Foster, and he was part OF many OF the
political trades that were made among the
statesmen at that time. We We're sitting
at dinner in Mexican restaurant In Los
Angeles when the conversation turned to
Garfield, and / asked him why 1t was that
Charley Foster got nothing out Of the
Garfield administration. He replied:
ut was largely the result OF Garfield's
vacillating character. He was not man
OF great moral courage, ana IN MS efforts
to please John Sherman and Roscoe Cenk-
lin he refused to pay his legal political
debts to Charley Foster. Foster and Gar
field were as close as brothers at the time
they went 20 the Chicago convention
They slept together at Chicago during the
convention, and Foster and Garfield rode
together back to their hotel after Garfield
mad been nominated. Foster put great