Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Harrison and Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Harrison and Indiana.

It seems to be conceded that Mr. Harrison cannot carry his own State. While Republicans are not willing to assettthis fact, neither are they willing to deny it, and their protestations against the assertion are of such a weak and evasive character as to amount to a confession of their candidate's weakness in the State where he is best known and understood. There has not been a day since his nomination, nor will there be one until his defeat, when Mr. Harrison has not been damned with faint praise whenever and wherever his candidacy is mentioned in connection with the campaign in Indiana. The country seems to have put Indiana out of the list of doubtful States for this campaign. Everywhere the Republican organs are preparing tables showing how that party can elect Mr. Harrison without Indiana. Such work is not uncalled for, since the party is well assured that if Indiana is necessary to Mr. Harrison’s success his defeat is sure. It seems to have become a matter of public intuition that Indiana is against Harrison. This feeling is due to the public understanding of the character of the man. In the four years during which he occupied the highest office in their gift the people have come to know him well. They have learned that he is a man of infinite smallness, capable, in his egotism, of envy, ingratitude, malice, and all uncharitableness. Looking at him through the large end of the telescope for four years, they are able to realize in what estimation he must be held by those who have known him so much longer and who have had more frequent opportunities to become better ac-

qtiaintod with him. They are now able to understand why he has estranged and antagonized such men as Judge Gresham, and they are able to realize, too, how badly he will need in this campaign the services of men like Dudley, which alone saved him four years ago—which he has since affected to condemn and despise.—St. Louis Republic.