Show THE BEGINNING < OE THE END Every day brings the Republican Presidential Presi-dential nomination of 1888 nearer John Shermans grasp The lines of concentration concen-tration of the party strength grow clearer almost hourly and Sherman is the concentrative con-centrative object The accession of the New York Tribune to the Sherman interest in-terest strongly indicated the drift of eastern east-ern Republican sentiment and now the voice of western Republicanism is making itself heard Senator Allison of Iowa has just given in his adhesion to Sherman The Iowa Republican leader is a force in his party He is Shermans strongest western party rival His following is large and devoted He is very good Republican Re-publican Presidential timber himself as Republican Presidential timber goes and his pronouncing in favor of Sherman is a certain indication that the western Republicans Re-publicans will support the Ohio leader in the convention Allison has his eye on the Presidency He can wait however how-ever He recognizes that a Republican triumph in 1888 will much improve the prospects of a similar victory four years later He also recognizes that a Republican Repub-lican triumph in 1888 is to say the least extremely problematical The chances of success are so very slim that Mr Allison Alli-son does not care to lead the Republican Republi-can forlorn hope He much prefers that the name of a rival party leader be identified iden-tified with the desperate attempt Sherman Sher-man is the man he most fears and so Sherman goes before the convention with Allisons support Should Sherman be defeated at the polls he is disposed of asa as-a party rival and Allisons chances are strengthened for the future Should Sherman be elected the Republican party would again bo in power Mr Allison would receive a leading cabinet position as a reward for his support and would I be the coming Republican nominee four years later with many more chances in his favor than exist at present Mr Allison is a good politician But ho il i I also a good Republican The one is fatal to the other The days of Republican Repub-lican supremacy have passed away and Mr Allisons political talents are useless to him There is only one thimg more certain than Shermans nomination nomi-nation by the Republican convention and that is his defeat at the polls And with personal disaster to Sherman will come final disaster to his party Blaine died politically in 1884 In 1888 Sherman and the Republican party will both meet Blames fate Aside from the fact that J the Nation will have no more of Republicanism Republi-canism the candidacy of John Sherman is ominous to his party The people are afraid of Sherman He will be as heavy a political deadweight in 1888 as t Blaine was in 1884 The people were I afraid of Blaine They expressed this fear at the polls The same expression I of fear will meet Sherman from the same quarter The grounds of fear are radically radi-cally different The result will be the I same The people feared Blaine as the brilliant demagogue They fear Sherman I Sher-man as the incarnation of political selfishness selfish-ness Blaine is a burning fever Sherman Sher-man is a dose of cold poison The National Democratic physician made a diagnosis of Blames disease eminently satisfactory to the people He will not fail to make one equally acceptable in Shermans case |