Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Too Much Grandfather. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Grandfather.

It la just pot '.iMF’Die grortdfather business inav be overdone. The American people never have shown any particular regard for hereditary rulers or law fo"' ’ ~ and. there is a decided feeling just cow that 1888 has not much to do with 1840. An honorable lineage is a thing to be proud of, but not a thing to boast about, and it really counts for but little in this country in the popular esteem for public men. Gen Harrison has a good enough record of his own to need no bolstering from his grandfather, who was not a very great man himself, and in the disposition to gw back two or three centuries and drag the preceding geneiatiom*- of Harrisons from their peaceful graves ..there is some danger of making him ridiculous. ft k ft'M the Cromwellian, nor the Virginian nor even "Old Tippecanoe” that is runni; - for tho presidency this yeqr. It jt 1 -’ d.iliitua lawyer of the present day, and hi.: election is not to V decided upon -ho is, v« of KWftor I'M) or 1840, but on of 1883.—-PhiladelpktA Times