Belmont Chronicle

SHERMAN'S REASONS
For Not Accepting the Ohio Gubernatorial Nomination.

WASHINGTON, April 14—Somebody in Ohio seems determined to make Senator Sherman a candidate for Governor despite the Senator's most emphatic assertion that he will not run and will not accept the nomination if it is thrust upon him. Senator Sherman's objection, which has not yet been broadly stated, is certainly a sensible and should be a satisfactory one. The great stake to be played for at the fall election in Ohio is the Legislature, not the Governorship. Upon this the great fight will be made, for it means not only a United States Senatorship, but it is a surer index than the State ticket would be which party can control the State the following year. Senator Sherman believes that any citizen of strength in the party (for there is an old saying that any man with ability enough to make a good justice of the peace will ably fulfill the duties of Governor of Ohio) can carry the State, and that the Governorship is safe. In company with scores of prominent men of the party, however, he looks upon the Legislature as in doubt. With such a prospect he might find himself, if a candidate, elected Governor of Ohio with a Democratic Legislature to elect his own and Mr. Pendleton's successor. Besides the unfortunate influence of the two Democratic Senators from a Republican State upon the election of 1884, it would throw the balance of power in the United States Senate into the hands of the two Readjusters, and what effect that might also be made to have upon the next year's election in the South is an important point to be considered. Those are the most potent reasons why Mr. Sherman thinks it would not be best for him to make the race in Ohio this fall. Besides this, Mr. Sherman has no desire to take upon himself the heavy labors which such a campaign would entail.