Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — The Tail End of a Weak Ticket [ARTICLE]

The Tail End of a Weak Ticket

Mr. Levi P. Morton, the Republican nominee for vice president of the United States, has a barrel—a hogshead, rather—which has been filled to overflowing by the sweat qf other people’s brows. He has also a villa at Newport, a park on the Hudson, a house on Fifth avenue and an office on Wall street. He has been United States minister to Paris, and performed the exhausting functions of that tasteful office with much amiability to those intelligent America:, who !... . bought letters of credit from his banking house. He is an entirely gentlemanly and unobjectionable person, who, with a thorough course of Cushing and Barclay, could undoubtedly be intrusted with the advancement of Republican monopolistic legislation in the United States senate. On the other hand, Mr. Morton must suffer because he has few gran-dlr-ther—a generic mishap which rather v. cm;ens his Americanism as compared witu that of the head of his ticket. Nor has he any personal identity for the average voter, because of his awkward habit of trilling with his mustache and beard. Neither has he any personal following, because of his long continued preference for Europe as a place of habitation. We are aware that we make out a weak case against Mr. Morton, but he is, or was, a fellow townsman, and it is our pleasure bo to do. There is no law, moreover, which compels a vice presidential candidate to produce a grandfather, and Mr. Morton’s double eagles will soon make the people familiar with his influence, if not with his presence, in this campaign. Upon the whole, we believe that Mr. Levi P. Morton will suffer less from the disappointment which awaits him than any candidate the Republicans could have selected.—New York Star. ,