The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-13

Washington. March 13.-[speciaI.]-
Politicians as rule are of the opinion
that the name of Senator Sherman will
never again be mentioned in a national
convention in connection with the pres
| idential nomination of his party, and
when OhiOs claim for that honor is
heard these days Governor Mckinley
is the man who is most talked about.
Senator Sherman is nearly 70 years Of
age, and by the time the next conven-
ton is held he will be past IA, though
he is still so vigorous of mind that one
can scarcely believe he is numbered
among the old men of the Senate.
That the distinguished Ohio statesman
feels keenly the failure of certain peo-
pie in his party to give him a. helping
hand when he was among the presi-
Dental possibilities was evidenced in
a conversation the writer had with
him some time ago while travelling on
railway train to the west.
Depew's Ideas of Sherman.
The name of Mr.. Chauncey NJ. De-
pew happened to be mentioned, and in
discussing that gentleman's remarka-
4
Mr.. Depew is a most extravagant
admirer Of you, Senator
An admirer of miner" Mr.. Sherman
asked In complete establishment How
did you form any such idea as that?"
AT dinner which we both attended
in Washington he had occasion to al
lude to several of the most prominent
men in public life, and he declared that
In his opinion you were the greatest OF
American statesmen. Lest all the as
sembled guests might not fully agree
with him, he said he was willing to
qualify his remark in claiming that
everybody present would agree that
you were at least one Of the greatest
statesmen the country had produced,
but added with emphasis that he would
stick to his original statement so far
as ne was personally concerned and in
sist that you were head and shoulders
above any other man in intellect and
power in the United States"
When did the dinner to which you
refer take place." was a question in
lstantly propounded by Senator Sher-
man.
In February, $780, was the reply.
Mr.. Depew and a number of other
prominent New Workers were here try
mig to induce Congress to locate the
Worlds fair in the metropolis"
The Senator remained perfectly silent
for more than a minute, and evidently
he INDUCED in some reflections over
what took place at the Republican
national convention at Chicago in 1883,
for his next remark was tinged with a
pOsitiveness that indicated he remem-
bered a thing or two. and he exclaimed
with considerable feeling:
IF DeDew thought so much of me,
why in the devil did he not talk that
way at Chicago in 1882
A gentleman Of the party attempted
to change the topic of conversation,
but was unable to switch the Senator
off from the subject as he added this
interesting sentences:
IF Depew entertained those opinions
of me at Chicago and had only said the
word the New York delegation would
have supported me for the nomination,
and l would have been nominated for
the presidency instead Of Harrison"
There's Many u Slip.
Just then a lady at the other end of
the Pullman car in which we were
travelling bowed to the Senator, and he
left us to shake hands with her. Dur
ing his absence the talk drifted into the
little incidents in life which sometimes
change the best plans of men, and one
of the gentlemen said that when the
Democrats Of New York were looking
around for candidate for governor in
1882 and the slate was being arranged
lit was uncertain for a time Wheteh
Cleveland or Hill would be put up for
the place on the ticket. Many of the
leaders wanted the Elmira man nomin-
ated for governor instead of the Buffa-
Ionian, but Dan Manning after con-
lsultation with number of the party
leaders managed to set up the pins so
that Cleveland got the first place. Had
Hill been the candidate for governor
he would of course have been elected
by the same overwhelming majority
that was rolled up for Cleveland in
1882, and today would doubtless have
been an ex-president if not the presi-
dent of the United States, and the pres
Ient executive might have reached only
a place in the Senate.
Many of Senator Sherman's admirers
do not admit that he is yet barred out
OF the next presidential race, although
among Ohio Republicans generally
Governor Mckinley seems to be the IA
vorite If the senator's health con-
tinues to be good his friends see no
reason why he should not still be the
choice of the Buckeye state Repub-
Ilicans, but from all that can be
learned Mr.. Sherman does not expect 10
be again brought forward, and 1t is
asserted here that he viii be content
to throw his powerful influence to the
Ohio man that suits him best
A story About McCreary-
Ex-Governor McCreary, Of Kentucky.
chairman of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, is not only a states
man who has had good luck in politics,
but few men are prouder of having
been the chief executive of their native
states than he. But he came very near
losing his chance of having any such
honor conferred on him. About the
time he attained his majority he had
also graduated in law. The town OF
Richmond, down in the Blue Grass
section, is where he was born and
reared, and he was the only son Of well
to do parents. His father was anxious
that he should remain at Richmond
and practice his profession, and offered
to buy him a neat little brick structure
for an office. The youthful McCreary,
however, had different notions. and he
informed his father that he would
strike out for some of the big cities Of
the west, and grow up with the
country. First the young man went to
ST Louis, and though supplied with
numerous letters of Introduction to
prominent citizens, he found no en-
lcouragement to locate Their, as every
told tho modification rrro