the Campaign--Harrison's Victory--Second Session of
the 50th Congress--The President's Cabinet.

While Congress was in session the people of the United States were
greatly interested in the choice of a candidate for President.
Conventions were held, votes were taken and preferences expressed
in every state. It was settled early in the year that a large
majority of the delegates from Ohio would support me for President,
and several weeks before the convention was held it was announced
that I would receive the unanimous support of the delegates from
Ohio. The Democratic party nominated Grover Cleveland and Allen
G. Thurman for President and Vice President.

The Republican state convention was held at Dayton, Ohio, on the
18th and 19th of April, and selected Foraker, Foster, McKinley and
Butterworth as delegates at large to the national convention.
Forty-two delegates were nominated by the twenty-one districts,
and all of them were known to favor my nomination. The convention
unanimously adopted this resolution:

"Seventh. The Republicans of Ohio recognize the merits, services
and abilities of the statesmen who have been mentioned for the
Republican nomination for the presidency, and, loyal to anyone who
may be selected, present John Sherman to the country as eminently
qualified and fitted for the duties of that exalted office, and
the delegates to the Republican national convention this day selected
are directed to use all honorable means to secure his nomination
as President of the United States."

The speeches made at the convention by the delegates at large, and
by other members, expressed without qualification the hearty and
unanimous support of my nomination. The condition upon which alone
I would become a candidate for so exalted a position as President
of the United States had been complied with, and I therefore felt
that I might fairly aspire to the nomination. Mr. Blaine had
declined it on account of his health, and no one was named who had
a longer record of public service than I had.

The movement for my nomination was heartily indorsed by the people
of Ohio and was kindly received in the different states. Many of
the leading newspapers assumed that it was assured. Sketches of
my life, full of errors, appeared. My old friend, Rev. S. A.
Bronson, issued a new edition of his "Life of John Sherman."
Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous, appeared
in print. Mrs. Sherman, much m