Show bherman AND GRANT the well known correspondent of the new york times mr corroll depicts in washington letter the intrigues of mr sherman towards obtaining ahe presidential nomination according to aliis authority it is particularly the bouth which is belabored by the agents of sherman agents who are not paid by him out of hta private but are salaried as special agents of the treasury with a iday exclusive of traveling expenses he is count ing on virginia north carolina and louisiana furthermore he ogles with a covetous eye the important empire the above mentioned reporter shows to what degree in recent times the appointments of federal officers have been made subservient to shermans Sher mans ambition the study of these derogatory statements may be recommended to the good people of st louis and cincinnati cin nati who deem it compatible with common sens sense e and conscience to oppose sherman as the representative of a progressive tendency to the candidacy of general grant in our eyes sherman has always been the reactionary element in iiames administration the manner in which the secretary of the treasury exploits the federal patronage in the interest of his own ambition and even condescends to strike hands with the virginia in order to make political capital proves clearly how little of the reform progress claimed by the friends of the iiames cabinet is due to sherman it is too evident that the great evil which taints the whose party system and the general political ment of this country the exploitation of the public service for operations and the debrada degrada de grada tion of the national office holders to abo performing of the dirty work of the ringleaders ring leaders finds no more unscrupulous representative than the secretary of the treasury lie has in him no vestige of genuine reform tendencies on the contrary his whole career is connected with the wont degeneration of party abuse we need only to refer to his participation in the fraudulent counting in of mr iiames whereof sirs jenks had such a savory story to t 11 the questionable veracity of the could not remove tbt conviction in disinterested and unprejudiced that had his finger pretty deep in that greasy epie As tin owsei to the political unreliability of shor man the advocates of his candidacy can allege nothing but bis co opera tion in resumption but every child knows how much he owed in the success of that financial performance to good luck and how little is lobe sot down to his own credit besides all his financial operations ba vonly giyen him the character of an acrobat and a i sleigh t offhand performer it would be foolish to look for fat principle in him however much w object on ground i principle and Gen Orant we must concede from an objective i standpoint that the more the choice would be reduced I to an between a soldier I like Grant and a prestidigitator and trimmer likar sherrain Sher raan the easier G ran atwould be accepted astha less of two evils friend at our elbow hero whispers to w in ati valt Charyl dim ho au la the drain the objectionable grant boom is the direct of tho popular disgust with gystan by men like sherman of a reaction against the sacrificing of the most important national inter cate for the tola good or selfish parties machines and demagogues those who intend struggling with s faint hope of victory against this coalition feel drawn to rally around the standard of a man whose rule would an effort towards the cleans ing of the audias stable of political corruption much an effort may bo denied to grant administration not without bome cause pr the pes tin list may oven dolbi the possibility of any reform feasible by cither of the great national parties yet people will hope and cling te lah elrad while grant cannot bo exonerated one rated of tho grave charges of personal favoritism and nepotism yet tn administration waa relatively better than the universal all persad ing corruption which would bo in by sherman whose would deliver the country a a helpless prey to the vl leand most unscrupulous manipulations ring we hope that he country may be cared either horn of the dilemma and may give its choice to a man chobo are unstained BV the of rings aud machine and whose gaind is unfettered by the d trading of exiting party r |