Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — GEN. SHERMAN. [ARTICLE]

GEN. SHERMAN.

Is He a Presidential Candidate? [Washington Special to Chicago Tribune.] There is considerable excitement among politicians here consequent upon a credited rumor that Senator John Sherman and exSpeaker Keifer had concluded an alliance to press Gen. WiHiamTecumseh Sherman for the Republican Presidential nomination. Gen. Sherman is on the ground,and, although never allied with Republican politics, has been taken down badly with the Presidential disease, in spite of previous protestations that under no circumstances would he become a candidate. Rumor has it that overtures have already been made to ex-Senator Conkling to favor Gen. Sherman’s nomination, and that Congressman Belford was the embassador, but the latter statement is discredited. Congressman Belford did have certain conferences with ex-Senator Conkling, the supposed object of which was to effect a reconciliation between Conkling and President Arthur, in which mission he has not so far succeeded.