Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — HARRISON ALSO. [ARTICLE]

HARRISON ALSO.

The Ex-President Denies a Rumor and Forcibly Expresses His Sentiments. Ex-President Harrison, Wednesday afternoon, at Indianapolis, received a letter from J. W. Riggs, a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, say ing that a criticism, imputed to him, of President Cleveland's, use. of federal troops, had been disapproved on the floor of the House, and asking him if the imputed statement was true Gen. Harrison telegraphed the following reply: “Indianapolis, Ind., July 10,1894. “James W. Riggs. Albany, N. Y. “Friends should not have expressed criticism of a sentiment imputed to me so disparaging as well to Ay reputation as a lawyer as to my patriotism N s a citizen, without better evidence that the imputed views were authorized than a newspaper dispatch, I not only did not express any criticism of President Cleveland's action, but I have distinctly and always maintained that it was not only the right, but the duty, of the President to enforce the laws of the United States everywhere without askinganybody’sconsent. I acted upon this view of the. law when, as a soldier, I marched under the orders of the President into States whose governors had not only not invited us. but were resisting us. As President I further maintained this view of tne President’s Dower and duty; and now, as a private citizen, I hold myself ready, as a part of the po3se eomitatus of the country, to aid upon his call in the enforcement of that view of the national authority.

BENJAMIN HARRISON."