Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — THE PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE.

Either B Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Harrison is to President.tor tha^next^ toal profess prophecy. Making predictions is “idle waste of thought ” TVhidh ought it to be? That is a practical question which must appeal to each individual voter. Which do you think it ought to he? Every man Interested In the welfare of his country, every man who does not ignore his right nor neglect his duty to' vote, must face that question and answer it for himself. The choice is between these two men. What is your

choice? s2--.c Now, of course, the Democrat rockribbed in the faith has . no, doubts to solve. Hfs choice was made for him before the world was. And the stalwart who could no more cease to bro Republican than the Bthiop could change fas skin or the leopard Ms spots —he, too, has no choice to make; it is made already, in the nature of things. But %1) are not Democrats or Hepublicans of the sorts described, There sre many -men.—increasing nu,u}bers as jbe years go by, wo believe—who do not take their politics, we will not say so seriously but, so thoughtlessly, so hereditarily, saoMfpmly. dependents with leanings or of one sort or another to either the oae hr the otfoor party, but to whom party names and shibboleths lightly appeal; who care nothing, or very little, for the success of any party; who care Much tor - the progress of certain principles. These men vole with one party or the other as they are convinced they can further the cause they have at heart. It is from this body of voters,and from the young men who vote for the first time, that each party in the close States must seek to draw in order to make sure . ot winning. Whataro the independents going to do in Indiana? Some of them made haste ostentatiously to declare In favor of Mr, Cleveland, before he had spoken or written of his relation to the Chicago platform. But it may be doubted whether they spoke for" the mass of Independents—for even those with antecedent Democratic preferences,, In 1888 the News supported Mr. Harrison and gavo good reasons why independent voters should vote for him. Mince then the paper has changed hands, to be sure, but it has not changed principles or purposes. Mr. Harrison has made a far abler President than even his friends, who promised much, predicted. He has in many ways compelled; approval and admiration on the part of his political enemies. He -is better equipped every way how than be was four years ago; less hampered, too, by political obligations, * * * Mr. Harrison has been a credit and an honor to our State. He is one of us, our. fel-low-citizen, bur iyeighbor. The State had honored him and he had proved worthy, of tho honor. The Nation honored him, and he rose level to bis high opportunity, State aqd Nation are now asked to give a vote of confidence. Has net the State confidence? Sh*Hft not say so? Men who voted for him four yefirs ago against the same opponent should want good reason for reversing themselves this year. Indiana Would cut a poor figure in the sisterhood of States if sho should refuse a vote of confidence to the son who has honored hor so highly, in the eyerof the Nation, in the oyes of the world.