Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

A Ticket Which Makes Democratic Victory Doubly Certain. Excepting Blaine, the Republican convention could have chosen no presidential candidate whose nomination would give greater satisfaction to the Democracy than that of Harrison, of Indiana. Bitterly opposed by an influential wing of the Republican party in bis own state, be is even weaker than when the canvass in which he was defeated by “Blue Jeans" Williams fastened upon mra the appellation of “Kid Glove Harrison. ” His course in congress in championing the Chinese invasion of the American industrial world has earned for him the hostility of labor organisations, and rendered utterly hopeless the effort to select Republican electors in the Pacific states. In Indiana he will be conspicuously weaker than Thurman, the western representative on the Democratic ticket. Thurman is admired and revered by every Indiana Democrat. Harrison is the choice only of the Republican machine of the state, in the narrowest sense of the termThe Gresham movement was a protest against Barrisonism strong enough at home to secure the support abroad of powerful states like Illinois. The source and inspiration of the Gresham forces came from Indiana, wad expressed the sentiments of the Independents, as well as those of that better element of the Republican party which was ostracized and silenced by the remorseless managers of the machine. Harrison will receive in his own state loss than a strict party vote, as the liberals and the dissatisfied Republicans, as well as the Independents, will flock to the standard of Cleveland and Thurman. Riven within the narrowest lines of his own party Harrison -will be a weak candidate everywhere. He will lack the strength that Sherman would have had In some southern states which aro claimed to be possibly debatable, and the damag ing record to which Ingalls alluded in his frankly critical letter will prevent hearty co-operation of Republican workers in his support. From adopted citizens he can expect nothing but the active hostility due to an old time proscriptioniet.

Personally, Harrison represents nothing except a species of aristocratic pretension to which the American people do not take kindly, and which becomes specially dangerous when placed at the head of t.he baser elements in politics. The support of the great monopoly corporations will not impart to the Republican nominee sufficient force in the campaign t© overcome his unpopularity with the masses. It will not be forgotten that it was railroad influence that selected him in preference to Allison or others who were favored by localities and influence Inspired by the popular seStimdnt known, as the "Granger’ spirit. With a nominee fitly chosen by the monopoly machine to represent its worst developments; without the winning personal qualities that sometimes lend strength to the representatives of failing causes; a negative candidate on a negative platform; the figurehead of a reactionary movement against equal rights ana the lust protection of Ameri can labor ana civilization—Gen. Harrison will be beaten most disastrously by the forces of progress and American prosperity, led for the second time to triumph by Grover Cleveland.—New York Star.