THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1773, 25 October 1879, Page 3

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

The struggle for the Presidential candidature is opened, and the most promising candidates at this time are the Secretary of the Treasury (John Sherman) on the one side, and Samuel J. Tilden on the other. Mr Sherman bases his claims on the success of his financial policy in restoring the country to a specie basis of payments, and in placing large funded loans for the Government at a reduced rate of interest Mr Tilden rests his claims, this time, principally on the asseveration that he was cheated and intimidated out of bis election in 1876 which makes his a sort of sympathetic candidacy. Of course, there is the usual incubus of lesser lights clustered around these two fixed stars in the political firmanent, any one of whom may, in the turmoil and heat of a political convention, swing away out of his narrow orbit, and become a meteor or a comet, and eventually boast as many "rings " as Saturn himself. Among these gentlemen are General Grant, Senators Blaine, and Conkling, ex-Minister Washburn, and, possibly, Ben Butler, on the Eepublican side ; and on the Democratic side, Senators Thurman and Bayard, and General Ewing, who is now running for the Governorship of Ohio, with, I think, a small chance of being elected. In respect to General Grant's chances there is every indication that he will not secure the nomination, though he will be a strong candidate in the Convention ; but the enthusiasm with which his name was at first greeted is subsiding somewhat.