Show GEN BE citizenship AN year which will embrace one of the hardest fought political fights in our oar history is about to be corn born and with the increasing nearness of the event and the preliminaries to it comes an increasing interest in the outcome every name having the slightest availability in connection with the presidency dency is being brought f forward orwar dby by the friends of its wearer and his qualifications and merits are tous taus early canvassed and presented in the regulation party style which means too frequently a dearth of argument and a plethora of gushing eulogy this kind of thing however to is mainly don confined to the republican side of the question since the other party his has about settled down clown to the choice of its last standard bearer the most significant name yet pre dented ila that of general philip H sheridan in view of the fact that there are any number of capable cap able and experienced statesmen esmen in the republican ranks men who are areno not only tonly willing bat anxious to try their hands at running dunnink for president the bringing forward of the celebrated cavalry leader who claims for himself nothing more than being a soldier gives rise to speculation spec as to the why and wherefore of the movement he does not hot desire the place in intact fact his has announced that under no w would he make the race aud aad yet th the following lor for him increases day by day d ay iy and the movement has developed into the proportions ot of a veritable boom one of the conspicuous men of the party gives it as his opinion that there la is no real intention ot of nominating design being to create as much strength as possible for some undesired wan man to offset the blaine movement and by having au equal or nearly equal force to that of the maine statesman the story 01 01 cincinnati in will oe be repeated he will be in the position of a boy who occupies one end ot of a seesaw see saw by going up and down as nigh high or as low as possible poss iole but accomplishing nothing until the convention is tired then a break will be made for some man who is wanted and ne he will wili win that is lie he will withe nomination tor for after iaal there is the race in chief to be made if this is the pro gramme general sheridan is s more an expert in the game ot politics politic thau than some people have gives ulm dim credit for lie he seems to understand the ways that are dark and tricks that are vain of the politicians too well to prevent his bis bemi ea enmeshed meshed oy by any of their schemes so sid far as obtaining tiia his consent lif is concerned so ii 11 they persist in bringing his hia name to the do so wiLli without oat his approval and tue therefore taen fore relieve him of any onus that might otner otherwise wise attach to the elie proceedings if lae he should happen to be the nominee perhaps under such cea es he might reconsider and consent to lead his party but ho he toes does not propose to be a stalking horse in the early part of ef the business for the aur pose of heading off blame blaine or anyone ani one else especially when he already holos a high and honorable position and one entirely in consonance with his training and instincts it is not to be presumed however that those who have th the blame aBlaine inte interest resL in hand band are so dull or inexperienced as to be captured in the way proposed it at all A counter movement having for its object the annihilation of lu lil tie phil as a cand Mate and leaving tile the former a comparatively un r cen contented tested held field oas has already been inaugurated the first development jentof of an interesting character that has so far been sprung the nation is the somewhat sensational announcement on ne e that general iS She handan i is not an american born citizen that he was but a few weeks ola when his parents brought him to ous ou shores from ireland the place of his nationality and that of course all talk about his candidacy is idle he being constitutionally ineligible the question Is open for discussion and taase who known anything thin of the circumstances conne connected cLed with Sharl dans nativity will find some interested listeners when they tell what w hat they know the fhe movement tor for him has not however shown symptoms of abatement yet iel |