The herald., 1895-10-20

| IS the quarantine maintained that Gen.
| eral Harrison cannot be reached. A re-
| porter called at the Mckee cottage early
| this afternoon to seek an interview with
| the ex-president on Senator Sherman's
| book, and sent note to General Harri-
son, but no written reply could be re-
turned, as quarantine regulations prevent
anything being passed out of the scarlet
fever cham ber.
CINCINNATI. Oct. I.-Hon. W. A.
Bateman, who was one of the delegates at
large to the national Republican conven-
ton of 1880 from Ohio, and who has been
close friend of Senator Sherman
in all the latter's contests for the presi-
Dental nomination. returned from Bos-
ton tonight. He has been in commuLi-
cation with Senator Sherman during the
writing of the senator's book and is i'm
pressed with the conservative reference
to the national conventions at which
Senator Sherman was defeated. Mr..
Bateman was the manager OF Senator
Sherman's interests for year or more
prior to the convention of 1880. 1t is ev-
ident from his reasons for not submit
ting to a formal interview that he has ev-
idence of General Garfieid's course prior
to the Assem- bling of the convention OF
1880, which shows that the general was
then active in his own interests instead
OF those of Sherman, to whom he was
pledged personally as well as by the in
1t is stated that letters are still in exist
ence in which General Garfield, before
going to the convention, wrote earnestly
to those WHO were working for his nomi-
ntion.
In one letter General Garfield asked
distinguished Republican of Pennsyl-
vania whether the latter thought it
| would hurt the formers prospects for
| General Garfield to go to the Chicago
convention at the head of the Sherman
forces. The party advised him to go to
the convention. present Senator Sher-
mans name and fight the Conkllng plan
| for denomination of General Grant.
The delegates at large from Ohio in 1880
were General Garfield, Governor Foster,
Ex-Governor Dennison and Mr.. Bate
man.
There were many reports at the time
about the 'big four" not pulling to-
geiher, that Garfield was candidate for
| the nomination himself; that Foster was
| candidate for vice president on the
tcke with Blaine and that Ex-Governor
Dennison, who had been in Llncoln.s
cabinet, was q candidate for vice. presi-
dealt on the ticket with Grant, and that
MI. Bateman was the only one who WAS
sincerely working for Sherman without
regard to himself Mr.. Bateman said
that eL, L,Governor Dennison was called on
repeatedly at the Chicago convention IN
1880. before the balloting commenced, by
the Grant men and offered the second
place on the ticket. Governor Dennison
declined, but also stated most emphatl-
cally that he would not accept the nomi-
nation and could not in honor do so, as
he was then pledged to Senator sherman
as the only Ohio candidate before the con-
vention, Garfield and Foster did not at
tend the meetings and conferences oi
Dennison and Bateman with the other
Ohio delegates, and there was at the time
no secret among the other delegates as to
large. The only thing that is brought
out now hy he publication of Sherman s
book is the reference TO letters tnat Gar
field wrote to certain friends in his owr
interest before leaving for the Chicago
convention in 1880. 1t is generally be
lieved that Mr.. Bateman has an accumu-
lation of evidence on the defeat OF Sher
man. r,