Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — JOHN SHERMAN SNUFFED OUT. [From the Cincinnati Enquiror.] [ARTICLE]

JOHN SHERMAN SNUFFED OUT. [From the Cincinnati Enquiror.]

The action of the Republicans of Pennsylvania is significant. * * * The Republican candidate for the Presidential nomination who, above all others, has engineered for it, who has used machinery for it, who has used patronage for it, is John Sherman. Blaine has no patronage, or next to none, to offer as a bribe. * * * Notwithstanding this tremendous advantage John Sherman gets not the slightest support in Pennsylvania; it is known that he has none in New York, the Empire State; it is known that he has scarcely half the friendship of his own State, the third political State in the Union. He is not in tne position of a “dark horse,” as Hayes was four years ago. He is an avowed candidate. He cannot, in the Chicago Convention, take the attitude, which for him would be enviable, of a “dark horse.” * * * The fight made by Blaine in the Pennsylvania Convention was for second place; it was not a vicious contest against Grant. Blaine will fight vigorously against any other man than Grant, as the friends of Sherman in Ohio will learn. Blaine already has notice that in John Sherman’s own State he (Blaine) has about one-fonrth or one-third of the Republican friendship. It is not reported that any Republican in Maine is in favor of John Sherman. Don Cameron has again successfully tested his power in Pennsylvania. The power of Conkling in New York has recently been proved. The Republican temper of these two great States is known. The political guide-board now points toward Grant as the Republican nominee. Will it be Grant and Blaine?