Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1888 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS .TO URN" At MDiTDAr, JULY 2, 1838.

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The Massachusetts mugwumps, as an organization, hare dissolved. The nomination cf Harriscn "broke them all up." The man who things that Benjamin Harrison Ls not a man of convictions, with a will and purpose of his own, is woefully mistaken; that sail. Inasmuch as the Courier-Journal has discovered that the Republican platform means free trade, we may expect the hearty and en thnsiastic support of Colonel Watterson for the Republican ticket The "solid South" is , breaking. We hope the Democratic party managers will keep up such dirty work as was done in New Albany on Saturday night A little more oZ that will so disgust people that the rote for General Harrison will be practically unanimous. CITIZEN'S of Indianapolis who have known General Harrison for more than a quarter of a century as one pre-eminent for manly, clean and upright character, would utterly fail to recognize him in the lying and libelous stories about him which are already beginning to circulate. The Pittsburg Leader announces itself for Harrison, 4 'not because he is & Republican and partisan by birth and affiliation, but because he is the harbinger of a safe governxnent" It also announces that Frank Cowan, son of ex-Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, a prominent Democrat has signified his intention of voting for General Harrison. A Urge manufacturer in Canton, Ohio, writes to his agent in Indianapolis: "Hurrah for Harrison and Morton. We believe the Democrats have the hottest fight on hand they ever had. We suppose Harrison can carry Indiana and Morton New York. Hip, hip, hurrah! Well carry the ticket; we will have good times ushered in again; but if they elect Cleveland and Thurman look out for blue days for several years to come." The Charleston News and Courier, after stating that two-dollar Democratic votes carried Indiana for the Republicans in 1830, says 'it is probable that votes will come higher this vear." This would seem to indicate that marketable Democrats mean to form a trust and raise prices. In this case it is to be feared that they will overreach themselves. The demand will be light this year, and votes not worth over fifty cents. The Republicans will have so many of their own, you know. No city north of the Ohio river has so 'many colored residents in proportion to its -population as Indianapolis, and probably in bo other could such a demonstration occur as that seen Saturday night at General Harrison's home. It excited little comment here, but in many places the sight of hundreds of colored men and their wives in procession, preceded by a ntgro band and with an orator of their own, would have caused a sensation. The colored citizens of Indianapolis, it may be remarked, have been prominent in all previous demonstrations of the week. They are all for Harrison. We desire to say to the Sentinel, and to the so-called "labor" tricksters and traders, that they mistake the public temper if they think it possible to work up sentiment against Gen. Harrison, or anybody else, because he volunteered to protect life and property and preserve the public peace. He did the same in 1S62, and served through the war. It is the highest honor to him to be opposed by irreconcilable copperheads, by Anarchists, houseburners and assassins. The American people are for law and and order, it j prelection of the home and the family; und no class more strenuously and heartily so than the honorable, industrious, intelligent workingmen. The brawlers and the traders, the men who followed Denis Kearney under the red flag, and those who are always trying to sell out a vote they can never deliver, enaw a file. A PLEASING incident of the local campaign vu the call of several hundred old soldiers on General Harrison, Saturday night to congratulate hid on his nomination. There was no politics in the demonstration, nothing but comradeship. It was an expression from old soldiers, irrespective of party, of the pleasure at the great honor conferred on one of their number by his nomination for the highest office in the government The spokesman ot the occasion, Hon. James L. Mitchell, a Democrat very feelingly and appropriately voiced the sentiments of the callers, and General Harrison's reply was in excellent taste, both

c:sininj thernsclTta to such exprticnof

patriotism and comradeship as were suitable to the occasion. Every old soldier in the United States ought to share in this feeling of gratification at the nomination of General Harrison, whether they rote for him or not.

"Yon cannot sell any bat the choicest cuts of beef, the superfine flour and the choicest coffee to a miner or mechanic The American laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy as well as of cheap labor. "Indianapolis Sentinel. A CRUSADE OF ANARCHISTS-' The record of General Harrison in the labor troubles, so-called, of 1877, is the record of an honorable, conservative, patriotic man. Thereis nothing to apologize for in it It h not necessary to recall the details of that time. Life and property had been destroyed in Pittsburg and Chicago by rioters, thieves and anarchists, who, in large cities, are always ready to U advantage of the disturbance of social conditions to work their ruin and disaster. To prevent like scenes of destruction in this city, Governor Williams, a Democrat called upon law-abiding citizens to form militia companies, for the protection of life and property. In this course he was indorsed by Mayor Caven, by Sheriff Pressly and by such Democrats as Senator McDonald, Franklin Landers, Gen. John Love, William H. English and others. In response to this call several hundred citizens, of all shades of politics, organized themselves, and to the command of one company Governor Williams commissioned Benjamin Harrison. The militia was not called into existence to settle the strike; had nothing to do with the strike; it never came near tho ' strikers. It was to protect the lives and property of peaceable citizens and preserve public order, and in that work a company of the strikers themselves aided, to their credit be it said. The strikers did precisely what General Harrison, and other cititizens, Republicans and Democrats, did. There was another capacity ic which Gen. Harrison served. He was a member of a committed that had for its purpose conference with representatives of the strikers and an adjustment of their grievances with the railroad companies. From beginning to end of these conferences General Harrison's voice was for peaceable, lawful, conservative measures. He was on the side of the strikers, so far as' the justice of their demand for increased wages was concerned. He repeatedly said their wages were too low, and that he would use all his personal influence to secure a just increase. General Harrison has ever stood for and pleaded for high wages for labor, insisting that anything was too cheap out of which labor was not properly and amply remunerated. While doing this General Harrison urged the strikers to cease what was clearly against the law, warning them that they would get into trouble otherwise. When some of them were arrested and punished by the United States court they acknowledged the justice and the wisdom of General Harrison's advice, and were thankful for his in fluence with Judge Drummond, which was exerted to terminate the period and limit the extent of their sentences, the General insisting that it was only the law that should be upheld, and not the punishment of individuals. When some hot-headed people wanted to march the militia against the strikers Gen. Harrison said no; he did not propose to go out and shoot down his neighbors. Mr. McDonald, who was associated with General Harrison on the committee, testifies to the General's wise and conservative action. He says: "I was associated with General Harrison in conferences with the strikers, and throughout he advised a peaceful settlement of the trouble. I have no recollection of his using any bloodthirsty language or insulting any representatives of the strikers during our conferences." Mr. McDonald also says of this matter: "I don't think that will cut much of a figure as an issue in this campaign. The. situation was threatening in Indianapolis then, and a committee on, public safety was organized. There was a sub-committee appointed to endeavor to arrange a peaceful settlement of the difficulty, if possible, and to take what measures might be necessary to protect the publio interests. Ben. Harrison, ex-Governor Porter, ex-Governor Baker, Franklin Landers afterward Democratic candidate for Governor, and myself were that committee. We met a committee of tho strikers in the Council chamber in a public conference I talked to them, aud told them that we sympathized with them and recognized their right to quit work if they were not satisfied with their wages or their employers; but that they had no fright to prevent other men from working, and that when they attempted to do so they became law-breakers. General Harrison and the others also talked to them in the same strain." This is all there is of this business, and it is a record in the highest degree creditable to General Harrison; not a line would he wish to blot out; not a word would he change, or try to change, even for the presidency of the United States. The men who object to it now do so either from partisan' reasons, and thereby show their dastard lack of patriotism and true citizenship, or they are cut-throats aud assassins, house-burners and Anarchists, lacking only the courage and the opportunity to put Into practice what is in their cowardly hearts. The militia was called cut to protect life aud property, and it was not used for any other purpose. The man who objects to General Harrison for obeying the call of a Democratio Governor like the patriotic, brave citizen he is, and who are trying to manufacture political capital against him for his honorable, conservative, lawabiding action, thereby confess themselves against the supremacy of law and in favor of destruction of life and property by mobs. No honorable man would so place himself. Others are simply lawless anarchists, who brand themselves as house-burners, pillagers, and murderers. General Harrison does not expect tho votes of such, and if they think to enlist any intelligent workingman in their infamsus crusade, they are simply mistaken. American workingmen are not built that way. GESEBAL HABRISOS AHD THE IBI8H. Irish-American citizens hold in grateful remembrance . the utterances of General Harrison in behalf of oppressed Ireland. In public speech and in private conversation he has repeatedly expressed his sympathy with the cause to which Parnell and Gladstone are devoting their lives, and wherever word of his in behalf of those struggling millions has been called for he has been prompt to respond. Jfci tQurca cf this sympathy is not taxi to

find. It is a part of the same feeling that led him to keep secret the whereabouts of the fugitive slave when a boy; the same that caused him, later, to leave his wife and babies and go to the defense of his country; the same that has drawn out his strong denunciations of the outrages upon Southern negroes it is the love of freedom for all men. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness belongs, in his creed, to all men; and wherever, in the course of his life, he has been able by word or deed to assist this consummation he has done so. He fought, for freedom in the war; he has labored since for the political enfranchisement of all men; he has championed the policy of protection because it is the salvation of the workingman, and he has spoken for Ireland because her people are striving to lift their chains and be free. All the acts of his career prove unmistakably that the wronged and oppressed, black or white, American or foreign-born, are sure to find : in him a defender and a friend.

Thk idea of anything cheap is repudiated by your American laborer. He looks at the style and luxury of the neh and works himself into s fury to live the same way. 'The American laborer woald do well to study the policy of tho Chinaman in his policy of economy, as well as of cheap labor." Indianapolis Sentinel. ' w BEC0RD3 POS WORKINGMEN CONTRASTED. The Indianapolis Sentinel advocates Grover Cleveland's policy of free trade, which 'means the destruction of American industries, the surrender of American markets to foreign control, and lowering the wages of American workingmen to starvation rates. While advocating this policy the Sentinel impudently assumes to champion the cause of American workingmen, and assails General Harmon for his votes on the Chinese question. y General Harrison's record on the Chinese question needs no defense. It has been investigated and approved by the Pacific coast States, all of which pledge him rousing majorities next November. But if his record on this question were never so vulnerable the Indianapolis Sentinel would not be in a position to attack him. In proof of its utter insincerity -in pretending to champion the cause of American labor, and as a specimen of its true sentiments on the Chinese question, we quote the following editorial article from that paper: "High wages, high prices and a constant effort to make them all higher, is the mistake of the times. A rebellion against Chinese labor is impending in California, because the Chinaman can learn the trade and make 'shoes, or anything else, at half price, and get rich into the bargain. What is the secret of this? The Chinaman's policy is to live on next to nothing. 'He outflanks the American by cheap living. But the idea of anything cheap is repudiated by your American laborer. He looks at the style and luxury of the rich and works himself into a fury to live the same way. You cannot sell any but the choicest of beef, the superfine flour and the choicest coffee to a miner or mechanic. He will have not the best in reality, but the most costly. He calls constancy for higher wages and does not 6ee that his high wares increases the cost of everything, lifting everybody higher and higher above ground to fall further at the crash, by and by. The Amer ican laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy as well as of cheap labor. living do not necessarily imply ignorance;' nor degradation, nor filth, nor whisky. .Neither, unfortunately, do high wages work exemption from all these curses ot labor, which are far worse than the oppressions of capita," This is the true doctrine of free trade and the very spirit of Grover Cleveland's message The Sentinel informs American workitgmen that the Chinaman "outflanks" them by cheap living, the inference being that if they want to compete with Chinese labor they must learn to live like Chinamen. It says "higK wages and a constant effort to make them higher is the mistake of the times." Free trade would soon put an end to this evil. The Sentinel speaks contemptuously of the American work? ingman's preference for "the choicest cuts of beef and for good flour and coffee, r as if a workingman had no right to these'. things. He would soon cease to have them if the Democratic policy of free trade should prevail The Sentinel says "the American '-laborer would do well to study the policy.! of the Chinaman in his policy of economy as well as of cheap labor." We hope the time is far distant when the American laborer, will have to do anything of the kind; but if the Democratic policy of free trade should, prevail it would certainly hasten the day. - With these cold-blooded .utterances of the Indianapolis Sentinel contrast the remarks of General Harrison, in a speech made in this city ,on the 20th of December last, when he said:" " "I suspect I am a poor political economist But when I hear men talking, now, like exSenator McDonald, of the great benefit that is to come to our people when ' Democrats revise the tariff, especially in the shape rof a cheap coat, I fail to find myself completely" in sympathy with him. I think-1 saw,',4; the other day, iu one of our Irfdianapol iisi papers, a good overcoat advertised for $1.87.; and it must be a pretty mean man that wants toiget one for a dollar. 'ftiac "The simple fact is, gentlemen',' rhany things are made and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a fair living out of 'the making of it, it is too low. Applause.: And I think our workingmen will wake up to the fact that reduction in their wages; which every candid advocate of free trade or"revenue reform admits must come with th'e adoption of his theories a reduction variously estimated at from ten'.to twenty-five per eent -is poorly compensated by the cheaper coat he is promised. This bull-in-the-china-shop sort of work that our Democratic friends vant to make of the tariff will not do." , - ; 4 i i V 'He (the American laborer calls constantly for higher wares, and does sot see that his high wasres increase the cost of everything, lifting everybody higher and higher above ground, to fall further at the crash by and by. The American laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy as well as of cheap labor." Indianapolis SeatmeL v BREAK THE SOLID SOUTH. The nomination of General Harrison opens the door to the South. There was no man before the convention, not even John Sherman, so identified with the South, by lineage and political record, as Benjamin Harrison. His eloquent voice has ever been raised for the rights of tho South and the Southern people. The Journal has long advocated the idea that the Republican campaign should be planned with the idea of carrying some of the Southern States. Wo insist that that shall be done this year. No greater glory could come to the Republican party this year than to break the solid South. We believe it can be done, and we think that General Harrison's influence will bo in tho direction cf carrying

the war across Mason and Dixon's line. The Journal would gladly exchange a Northern State for a Southern one; we regard a solid South as the greatest menace to the government that confronts it The Virginias, Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida, and possibly other States, may and can be carried with the right sort of organization, hard work and determined resolution. Tho Philadelphia Press well says of General Harrison's nomination: "Above all in the South, whose mountains but just feel the pick, whose valleys begin to be clouded with the smoke of the furnace and whose waste places gleam with factory windows, row on row this nomination opens the door to its States long estranged from protection. Let them return to the faith of their fathers. Let them add to the old column of protection the States which once believed with Henry Clay and voted for the elder Harrison; We give them a candidate born of that great stream of emigration with which Virginia, mother cf States and of Presidents, made populous her imperial gift to the Nation. He is of their line and lineage, bred of their stock.-and came of their descent Against him or his past utterances no Southerner can say aught His nomination is received at the South , as no Republican nomination before has been. He represents the American system which knows no North and South. Let its Southern friends make him an American President, chosen to support protection through all the land and for all the inhabitants thereof."

'The Chinaman's policy is to live on next to nothing. He outflanks the American by cheap living. ' The American laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy ef economy, as well ascf cheap labor." Indianapolis Sentinel. THE ISSUES OF THE CONTESTHere is a statement of the issues of the campaign that will do to reprint and remember: "Protection to American rights. "Protection to American labor threatened by low tariff and foreign cheap wages. "Protection to American tax-payers wantonly burdened for years by needless taxation, which neither party supports, but which a Democratic majority maintains. "Pr6tection to the rights of American voters, 'threatened at the North by the suppression of the votes of others at the South, threatened at the South by the suppression of their own rotes. ' Protection to American commercial rights threatened by the surrender of the fisheries treaty r "Protection to every American citizen out of office against the political manipulation of officeholders, and to every American citizen in office against the pressure, patronage and assessments of politicians. And hero are extracts from the sentiments of various Presidents and statesmen of the United States on the system of a protective tariff, which will also do to reprint and remember: George Washington: "Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to insure a continuance of their efforts every way which shall appear eligible." Benjamin Franklin: "Every manufacturer encouraged in our country makes part of a market for provisions within ourselves, and saves so much money to the country as must otherwise be exported to pay for the manufactures he supplies." Alexander Hamilton: "There are natural catises tending to render the external demand for the surplus of agricultural nations a precarious reliance." .Thomas Jefferson: "We must now place our manufacturers by the side of the agriculturist Experience has taught mo

Economy and thwVtlat manufactures are now as necessary to

our independence as to our comfort! John Quincy Adams: "Thb great interests of an agricultural, commercial and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity tq one of them can operate without extending its influence to the others." . Andrew Jackson: "Upon the success of our manufactures, as the handmaid of agriculture and commerce, depends in a great measure the independence of our country, and none can feel more sensibly than I do tho necessity of encouraging them." -Daniel Webster: "That is the truest American policy which shall most usefully employ American capital aud American labor, and best sustain the whole population. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures will prosper together or languish together." Abraham Lincoln: "I am in favor of a protective tariff and internal improvements." The entire Republican press of Indiana is solid and enthusiastic for Harrison and Morton. No papers are more loyal and true than those which preferred the nomination of an other, notably the Fort Wayne Gazetto, the Delphi Journal and the Greencastle Banner. The first-named, in a leading editorial, says: '"As, perhaps, the leading newspaper in Indiana which has warmly advocated the nomination of Walter Q. Gresham for the presidency, the Gazette desires most heartily and unreservedly to indorse the nomination of General Harrison, and in so doing the highest possiole compliment is paid to General Gresham, because it indicates the unswerving Republicanism of his support ."There is no possible reason to be assigned why any American citizen should refuse his support to General Harrison. His life is an open book, whose fair pages have never been soiled by the record of a questionable action. IJe has been an unswerving and uncompromising Republican from. the very dawn of the party's history. He left & lucrative office and exposed his life in defense of his country. iTbe election of 1886 showed clearly what tho people of Indiana think of General Harrison: They recognize his worth and will elect him to the office for which he has been nominated if the vote of his own State is able to o.it. " "The Gazette has all along denied that there .were any factions in the Republican party of 1 1ndiana, and the statement is now reiterated. :No matter who has been the first choice of the different Republicans here in Allen county, Mhey will show a united front to the enemy this fall, and work for General Harrison with an energy that will not be without its effect" This is a fair reflex of the unanimous sentiment of Indiana Republicans. Indiana Republicanism is of the fighting kind. There is neither Achilles nor Thersites in the Republican camps of Indiana. Mr. L. G. Bedell, of Chicago, in a letter to the Chicago Tribune, recalling the ,campaicn of 1840, says that Solon Robinson then published a little paper in Lake county called "The Great Western," and in speaking of the Democratio "silk-stocking" candidate for Congress from that district, made use of the expression: "Then the great mugwump was delivered of a speech, which the faithful loudly applauded." This is an interesting fact as to the political use of a term that has lately become so common. It seems to be a renaissanco from tho "Tippecanoo" campaign. Mr. Henry George, one of tho best known and most outspoken advocates of the British policy of free trade, says in his paper, the Standard, "Mr. Cleveland has burned, his ships; he stands before the country a champion of free trade against protection. If be is re-elected, protection will have recolved its death blow." Mr. George is brutally frank, and we believe what he says: If Mr. Cleve land is ro-fcJected, tho policy of protection to

American industry will havr. receivod its death blow, and with it home markets for American products, high wages for American workmen and new avenues for American enterprises. These are the bridges by which the Republican party, led by General Harrison, would conduct the American people to permanent prosperity.

Hon. John W. Foster, at a ratification meeting in Washington, said: ''The only attack which I have heard made upon General Harrison's record as a public man is that when in the Senate ho voted against the Chinese restriction emigration bill then pending.. When the facta are fully known his course will commend itelf to every fair-minded man. He recognized that we had entered into a solemn treaty in relation to that country, whhh good faith required should be respected; that by diplomatic negotiations we should seek to be released from these stipulations as soon as possible, and meanwhile that our legislation should be as restrictive as our public good faith would allow. He never opposed the restriction of cheap Chinese labor, as far as it was honorable and legal. The country has no better friend of the laborer than General Harrison. The only heritage which he received from his ancestors was an honorable name. He came to Indiana a poor boy to carve out his fortune by his unaided industry. By close attention to his profession, he has built up his reputation as an able lawyer. His fellow-citizens-and neighbors have recognized his worth and have bestowed upon him the highest honors of the State; and'to day they present him to you an a worthy champion of a free ballot, freo labor and American industries." The kind of a campaign the Republicans will have to meet is indicated by the New York Sun, which says: "Thanks to the Sun and Grovor Cleveland, the offices are now chiefly held by Democrats. The fund of campaign money raised this year by the contributions of office-holders will come from Democrats in office, and will be devoted to the promotion of the Democratic cause. This ought to be a good year for the collection of campaign subscriptions from office-holders." No campaign in the country, not the one in which Mr. Hendricks himself personally collected assessments from the employes of tho Land Office, has ever approached what will be seen in the present one in the degradation of the public service, the racing of a corruption fund from public employes and the' grind ing power of "the machine." Yet blessed, pure-hearted civil-service reformers, like George William Curtis, will shut their eyes to the wholesale prostitution, or at least look over it, and continue to thank God that they are not as other men. Here is a point respecting General Harrison that it will be well to emphasize. Asked by the correspondent of the New York Sun whether he had ever been a director in any bank, insurance company, or other corporation, the Geueral replied: "It haa often been suggested that I should let my name be used as an incorporator or director in companies of various sorts, but I have always refused to allow it From the first I have made it a rule never to accept any -representative position unless I could give my personal attention to the interests of those whom I was supposed to represent I would never consent to be a director unless I was able actually to attend the affairs for which I was responsible. I wont be a figurehead or a mere make-weight in any institution, and as I have never felt that I could spare the time to take an active part in the management of anything outside of my law business and the public places I have held, the result has been that I have never been a director in anything." If General Harrison is elected President the same rule will be followed; he will be the President. The country may depend on that fact The Sentinel, in its leading editorial of last Saturday, says of the Journal: "It is, aud has been ever since it passed under its present management the bitter, persistent implacable foe of labor organizations. It will not to-day permit a member of a trades-union to work in its establishment." In order that there may be no misunderstanding as to the force of language, the Journal will speak plainly, and say that the above is a willful and malicious lie, and the writer of it a willful and malicious liar. A large per cent, of the compositors on the Journal are members of the Typographical Union, and they will hold their places just so long as they wish. No man has ever been discharge! by the present management of the Journal because he belonged to the union, nor will any ever be discharged for that reason. The Journal employs both union and non-union men. It believes in the freedom of labor and the protection of labor, and will stand on and by that platform. In a speech, delivered in September, 18S2, General Harrison said: "I want to assure you to-night that I am an advocate of civil-service reform. My brief experience at Washington has led me often to utter the wish with an emphasis I do not often use, that I might be forever relieved of any connection with the distribution of public patronage. I covet for myself the free and unpurchased support of my fellow-citizens, and long to be able to give my time and energy solely to those publio affairs . that legitimately relate to the honorable trust which you have committed to me." In this State, in view of the prostitution of the national and State public service to the basest partisan purposes, General Harrison has been earnestly and strongly in favor of ciril-service reform. The St Louis Globe-Democrat ; corrects a version of one stanza of the "Tippecanoe" song now going the rounds. It says: "The right reading, as nearly as we can remember, is: "O haTe you heard the news from Maine? Main, all honest and true She went hell-bent for Gorernor Kent, And Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. "This was a verse added to the campaicn song of 1840 after the tide had turned in favor of the Whigs by the election of Governor Kent, in September." The Brooklyn Eagle, Democrat, says: "As the Republicans have put Ben Harri son and Levi Parsons Morton on either end of their ticket, Indiana and New York will have to be stoutly fought for. The chances are more nearly even between the parties than either likes to admit and .New iork and Indiana are the battle-ground." The Philadelphia Times says of Geneil Harrison; "No doubt he would conform to the law if he was elected President, but he can hardlybe made to figure as a civil-service reformer in contrast with Mi. Cleveland." That is true. General Harrison will not figure like Mr. Cleveland in the appointment of Gene Higginses, Postmaster Harri tys and "Boss" Dickinsons; in the establishment of a code of character assassination in order to de

stroy the postoffice service; and in the an

pointment of drunkards, thieves and dead beats generally to federal positions, so that the Democratic organ in this city was com pelled to cry "Halt!" The Times is correct General Harrion will not figure as this sort of a reformer in contrast (&c with Mr. Cleveland. COL. L. V. B. Tatlok. of Frankfort, Kan., addressed General Harrison sv letter in February last In which he named him for the presidency. Colonel Taylor and General Harrison were army comrades and their correspondence was as be tween such frisnds. In his reply General Harrison said: "All of my friends here know that I am not candidate for the presidential nomination or for anything else, indeed, and toad bare rather been opposing than promoting the plans which any of my friends have devised or sugrested. In savins this, however, I would not have ycu think. that 1 am unsrpreclative of the compliment involved in the surcestion that I might be fit to occupy this great office. We shall have a very close and hard contest in our State this year, bnt I believe that with earnest and united ffort we can carry the State aain as we did in 1G POLITICAL NOTE AND COHHEXT. Boston Transcript: The most intense Irish men are tremendous protectionists. Philadelphia American: The nomination cf Mr. Harrison means buslcess, not "magnetism. A G. Thueman, in Jndee: Lay on, Maedcff: and damned be he who first cries, "Hold! tis snuff." Chicago Ma3 (Dem.): Ben Harrison will earrv his own State if he doesn't carry another in the Union. The Chicago Mail, an indeoendent paper, an nounces that it will support Harrison and Morton. Illinois State Journal: Enthusiasm for the ticket is contagious. The people are "catching'' it all over the country. Chicago Mail: Benjamin and Levi! That is a ticket which should commend itself to the chosen people. It has a business-like ring to it Philadelphia Inquirer: Oregon was 4.000 Democratic. She is 7,000 Republican. Yet the Democrats think they can beat Harrison on the Paeirt? coast. Henry Geosge, whose support Mr. Cleveland is so happy to have, declares that "if Mr. Cleveland Is re-elected protection will have received its death blow." Detroit Tribune: Every free trade newspa per in London is for Cleveland and Thurman. Harrison and Morton will have to rely entirelv upon American support Boston Journal: At the present rate the New Eo land town or city which has not had a Harrison and Morton ratification meeting by the ena or next wee- wiu be rather lonesome. Minneapolis Journal: Governor Forakergot pretty near even with Cleveland by one little . remark he made in one of his speeches in Chi cago, when he said, "We are going to nominate ' a gentleman. n La Crosse Republican: The difference between Cleveland and Blaine ifi this, that Cleveland f aid he wouldn't accept a second term, but did accept, while Blaine said be wouldn't accept, and he didn't Utica Herald: la 800 words of his address to the committee to notify him of his nomina nation Mr. Cleveland uses forty-four times the personal pronoun, I, me, myself. The disease of "big head9 is crowing on him. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald: "It is a strong ticket. Ben Harrison is a good man. You don't find any one here ssying anything against him. Hehas fair ability, and he is an excellent representative of Republican principles." Boston Advertiser: When the inflation craze was at its height in Ohio and Indiana Benjamin Harrison stood like a tower of strength for honeety and sound principles. What would Allen G. Thurman not givo if only the sams could be said of himf Buffalo Special: About thirty septuagenarians who voted for William Henry Harrison for President, in 1840. to-night formed a Veterans' Republican campaign club and elected the Hon. Lewis F. Allen, uncle of President Cleveland, as president. Some time ago the New York Graphio made a composite photograph of all the Republican candidates for the nomination. A peculiar phase was at that time remarked, that the flowing beard, the broad forehead and other characteristics resembled Indiana's favorite son. Boston Herald (Mugwump): General Harrison is a partisan, but there Is no proof that he represents any of the bad methods of party, either in the employment of intrigue, of money, or of patronage. The Republicans have the advantage in their attitude upon the civil service. Pittsburg Chronicle: Several years ago when Levi P. Morton gave $50,000 to purchase food for the starving people of Ireland, he was not only sending bread across the water, bnt in the scriptural sense, he was casting it upon the water, and it will come back in the shape of a rousing Irish vote. Indianapolis Herald: The scriptural significance of the word "Benjamin" is "the chosen son," and "Levi signifies "the elect" We don't believe the Democracy will have the temerity to go back on the Scriptures, even though the political career of Grover bangs in the balance. Benjamin and Levi will get there! Vermont Watchman: The Watchman has reason to feel gratified with the nomination of Harrison. After the publication of Mr. Blaine's Florence letter the Watchman sage ted Harrison as the man who (next to Blaine) would be the strongest and most available candidate, and we have sinced "boomed'' him with much persistency. Wheeling Intelligencer: 1840 Van Buren and free trade. William Henry Harrison and protection. 18S3 Cleveland and free trade. f Jenjamin Harrison and protection. Martin Van Buren received CO electoral votes. Harrison beat him out of sight. The country was swept as by a whirlwind, and toe name of the Democracy was Dennis. Oath, in Cincinnati Enquirer: Harrison has both polish and ruggedness, mental and moral eourage, the quality of personal oratory and the ability of both talents and convictions. Blaine is not as winning and fervid as be is painted. Harrison is not as reticent both are exaggerated by the public For executive political office Harrison was the most fitting of them alL ' The Atlanta Jonrnal wants to know why the Republican party left it to a Democratic administration to reduce the rate of postage on letters from 3 to 2 cents. The Journal is ' hopelessly ignorant. The reduction in question was made by a Republican administration, and went into effect on Oct. 1. 1SS3. In advocating a further reduction, therefore, the Renublio&a party is simply iu line with its settled policy. Chicago Mail: There is no race on earth that has a greater respect for temperance, or greater reverence for the practical application of temperance principles than the Germans. What they do object to, and in that they are cot alone, is the fanatical interference of any sect or school with the personal libertv of individuals to regulate their own lives. General Harrison will not lose any votes beeause he is a Christian gentleman and does cot indulge in stimulating beverages. Milwaukee Sentinel: One rash Democratic paper undertakes to give the impression thst Gen. Ben Harrison is "cold and unsympathetic1 That is just what he isn't though perhaps his nomination lowers the temperature in the Democratio camp. But the Democratio party shouldn't raise objections to an unsynapathetio creature. It was the gallant Henry Watterson who wrote of Mr. Cleveland that he is a wooden image of dull stolidity, as ineapable of receinng impressions as he is of returning warmth." Evening Wisconsin: It is a fact not generally remembered, that Levi P. Morton, the present Republican nominee for Vice -president was prominently named for the vice presidency on the ticket with Garfield, and would have been chosen with bnt silent opposition had he cot refused to permit the uso ot his came. Hewas also offered tho secretarjshin of the navy after Garfield's election, but refused it aeting upon art ice given him by his close personal friend, Itoscoe Ccnkliog. Now fales the red baadanc on tbe siirLt. And in the air the sUrrr fiat's unrolled. - The anciert L'oman whes.s his dizzy night, To soak Lis Lead in Wattr moUt and cold. Lincoln Jo