Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-14

-Harrison's Nomination the Result Of q
Bargain, Sherman Says.
DETROIT, Nov. 1.-THE attention OF
General R. A. Alger was called last night
to the references to him in the second
volume of Senator Sherman's memoirs,
tne proOf-sheets of which have been sent
to various newspapers throughout the
country. General Aiger said: Il am very
much surprised that Senator Sherman,
laboring under the disappointment of not
r ceiving the nomination, should connect
my name with it. If he knows anything
about the matter he knows that his
charges against me were without founda-
tion. There never was q time when his
combined vote and mine would have nom
mated him in the convention of 1883. Ny
request to my friends was that in case
my nomination was not possible they
should cast their votes for General Harri.
son, believing as Ibid that a soldier should
be nominated.
To What Gen. Alger Expects.
Second to him asked them to support
Senator Sherman. If any money was used,
which do not believe, to purchase votes
from the south it was against my positive
instructions, and no bill of the kind has
ever been presented to or paid by me- l
never could understand why Senator Sher-
man should try to blight the name of a
man who has never by any act injure d
him or any other man." The quotations
to which General Alger excerpts are those
in which Senator Sherman in referring to
the contest for the presidential nominal
tion of 1883 writes: Il believe. and had
as 1 thought conclusive proof, that the
friends of General Alger substantially
purchased the votes of many of the dele
gates from the southern states who had
been instructed by their conventions to
vote for me-"
Refers to Blaine and COnklinS.
Sherman says he has no reason to be-
lieve that General Harrison resorted i'm the
slightest degree to any improper or corrupt
combination to secure his nomination and
adds that the only feeling of resentment
that he himself entertained was lin
regard to the action of the friends of
General Alger in tempting with money
poor negroes to violate the instructions of
their constituents" Senator Sherman in
this volume dwells upon the history of his
part in the Hayes cabinet, and gives a
pretty complete history of the famous con-
troversy between Blaine and ConSling,
which was a momentous event in the po-
litical history of the next few years.
Credits lis Defeat to New York.
In speaking of the contest for the NOM
ination of 1883 Sherman says: 'On Mon
day, June %, L did not anticipate a change
of the first ballot from the last one on
Saturday. l did expect from my dis:
patches that the nomination would be
made that day, and in my favor, but as
the result proved an arrangement had
been made on Saturday that practically
ecurcd the nomination of General Harri-
son. From the best information could
gather from many persons with whom l
conversed have no hesitation in express
ing the opinion that l was defeated for
the nomination by New York.
Says q Corrupt Deal Was Made.
Il believed then, as l believe now, that
one of the delegates from the state of New
York practically controlled the whole del
CATION, and that corrupt bargain was
made on Sunday which transferred The
great body Of the vote of New York to
General Harrison and thus led to his NOM
ination. 1t is to the credit Of General
Harrison to say that if the rcputed bar
gain was made it was made without his
consent Mt the time, nor did he carry it
into execution.