ABOUT HiS IIATSHIP.
THE SOUP KETTLE YAWNS FOR
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Governor I'ectc flaya He H ill Lone Wi
eoMln Not So Strong In Indiana aa
Ha Waa In Hole Can neat II Ira
In Iowa.
The following opinions of lending
Democrats in different parts of the coun
try will bo of interest:
ILLINOIS.
President E wing, of the Iroquois club,
the banner Democratic orgauieation of
the city: "McKinley was their logical
candidate, but they had not the courage
of their convictions, and so choeo Harri
son. Of courso we shall beat him."
"Harrison will never iignin make as
good a race as he did In 1838," said Pot
ter Palmer. "You can't enthnse with
him, and this Blaine quarrel will cripple
him from the start. "
Carter Harrison voiced the general
sentiment of Democrats when he said,
"We can almost certainly elect the
Democratic nominee if we only use dis
cretion in choosing him."
MICHIGAN.
O. M. Barnes, a member of the Demo
cratic national committee, says: "I think
Harrison as a candidate is weaker than
McKinley. Harrison will have to bear
the odium of the McKinley high tariff
enactment, and he lacks the personal
popularity of the Ohio man. The cam
paign will be fought upon tho tariff
question. Harrison is oertainly no
stronger than ho was in 1889. He can
offer nothing new; ho will fail to arouse
the enthusiasm of his party, and will be
beaten."
L. E. Rowley, deputy secretary of
state and editor of the Lansing Journal,
says: "I do not believe that Harrison
can carry Indiana. Tho opposition to
Harrison in New York is oa irreconcil-'
able as it is in Indiana."
MISSISSIPPI.
Governor Stone thinks that "if the
Democrats can beat anybody they can
beat Harrison. If the Democrats act
wisely at Chicago Mr. Harrison will not
be elected."
Chief J nstico C.implwll brieves Har
rison wll be as easily beaten as any lie
publican who could be named, far more
so than Blaine.
Attorney General Miller's fears are
relieved. Ho says. "It is tho best thing
that could have happened for tho De
mocracy." GEORGIA.
Hamilton Douglas: "Blaine was by all
odds the strongest Republican in the
field. Tho sore in the Republican party
caused by his defeat cannot be healed.
The nomination of Harrison means tho
supremacy of small men."
Josiah Carter, editor of Tho Herald:
"The Minneapolis convention is a blot
on American iolitics. The Blaine move
ment was conceived in sin and born in
treachery and lived by corruption. The
Harrison strength was bought and paid
for with money and offices and promises.
From the highest to the lowest the cor
ruption extended, the rival candidates
debauching a convention to secure the
highest place in the gift of the people to
cover themselves with loud Bmelling
'honors of office."
WEST VIRGINIA.
Governor Fleming: "This suits mo.
In my opinion Harrison has less strength
in this state than any oue else the Re
publicans could have nominated. The
uomiuation of no other presidential as
pirant would have so encouraged the
Democrats of this state. Harrison's
record as to the force bill is especially
objectionable. The steps taken in 1890
to colonize negroes for political purjxjses
in this and two other states, in which
scheme persons very near to the presi
dent were engaged, will give tho admin
istration party more trouble than per
haps they espect."
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
L. B. Brown, managing editor of Tho
People and Patriot, and one of the best
informed politicians in the state: "Tho
nomination of Mr. Harrison must be re
garded as a sore disappointment to the
Republicans of New Hampshire. The
feeling of the rank and file of the party
in the state was largely and unmistak
ably in favor of tho nomination of Mr.
Blaine, if his health would admit of it,
and if not then of taking some new man.
The ticket will fail to arouse a particle
of enthusiasm among New Hampshire
Republicans and will bo tho easiest to
defeat in this state of any that could
have been named from the mentioned
list."
INDIANA.
Chairman Tagjjtirt, of the Democratic
stato ceutral co-.umittee, said: "Harri
son is not as strong in this state by sev
eral thousand votes as he was in 1888.
A great deal of this is due to his failure
to remember tho men who did the hard
work in 1888, and tho appointment in
stead of men who simply looked wise
and gave Mr. Harrison a largo amount
of highly colored but extremely worth
less advice. Before stato pride cut a
large figure. I want to say now that
state pride this year is a barren
ideality."
Attorney General Green said: "Har
rison comes out of the convention with
a good many quarrels on his hands. 1
don't think ho is ns strong now ns he
was in 1888."
Secretary of State Matthews, Demo
cratic candidate fur governor, said: "1
think there is aneh a breach between the
Harrison and Blaino element that it
will be an extremely difficult matter to
reconcile thsin. Indiana will lie Demo
cratic notwithstanding Harrison's nomi
nation." V. 12. English: "Harrison is not as
strong today iw he was throe months
ago, particularly in Indiana."
KENTUCKY.
S(eaker William M. Moore, of tho
Kentucky liou.-to of representatives, said:
"I am satisfied, and if tho Democracy
act Judiciously at Chicago they will de
feat Mr. Harrison next November. 1
thiuk the tariff will be the prominent u
rae, and the campaign will be the hottest
one ia the history of ir country."
EEWAP.I OP SIDE ISSUES.
Democrnt Mint I'rrnent u Solid front
to the Kneniy.
Here are some fact for the considera
tion of those Democrats at the south and
elsewhere who are disposed to embnr
rass counsel with Alliance issues, third
party movements and the like.
John L Davenport, under Senator
Hill's cross examination, hAs declared
upon oath that ho was the author of lost
year's force bill, and that ho will bring
it forward again to securo for Repub
lican officials what Mr. Lodgo called for
"a bayonet behind every ballot
That bill was passed aa a party meas
ure by the Republican house last year
and only beaten in the senate by a splen
didly brilliant combination formed by
senator Gorman.
The Republican president not only
favored its enactment, bnt was active
and nrgent in it behalf. This force
bill champion ts the candidate of his
party for re-election to the presidency.
Not one of the Republican leaders
whose influence is felt in the party has
had one word to say in opposition to
this scheme for the control of elections
by force and fraud. All of them favor
it as the surest method of retaining
power for their party irrespective of the
popular will.
The platform adopted at Minneapolis
means force bill if it means anything.
In brief, the Republican party is com
mitted to the force bill policy, the Re
publican campaign will be for the force
bills passage, and if the Republicans
win the force bill will become law.
With such a prospect staring them in
the face it is no time for Democrats any
where to indulge in disgruutlemente, to
potter over secondary issues, to divide
strength with strange "movemeuts" or
to do anything else except work with
might and main for the selection of the
strongest men at Chicago, and for the
election of the candidates selected, who
ever they be.
So long as this force bill threat hangs
over the country tho Democratic party
confronts a danger that should solidify
it like a crystal. New York World.
CUiiiiticcy linn Chanccil.
Even the ebullient eloquence and vivid
imagination of Orator Dpew were not
equal to the task of presenting adequate
reasons why there should bo a continua
tion of tariff robbery and Republican
extravagance in tho administration.
He took refuge in nlmse of tho Democ
racy and in tho usual platitude regard
ing the prosperity of tho country sinco
Mr. Harrison had been steering the ship
of stato. Association with monopoly
has mightily changed Mr. Depew since
1872, when of all oratorical indictments
of tho Republican party his was tho
most cogent and scathing. Philadel
phia Record.
Tho Wanamuker Idea.
Brother Wamimaker's great idea of
free postal delivery in the rural districts
gets a conspicuous place in the miscella
neous department or bargain counter
of tho Republican platform. Curiously
enough it is coupled with a reaffirmation
of the pledge of 1888 to reduce letter
postage to oue oent at the earliest possi
ble moment But the practical effect of
Brother Wanamaker's rural free deliv
ery is to increase to two cents the post
age on drop letters on which tho rural
inhabitant has been paying one cent.
New York Suu.
FIh1oo11.
The platform is mostly pure buncombe
mere flapdoodle. Tho most impudent
thing in the wholo structure is a four
lino resolution "commanding the spirit
and evidence of reform in the civil ser
vice." This in a convention dominated
by 200 office holders, in behalf of an ad
ministration that looted tho public ser
vice for spoils quicker and cleaner than
the job was ever beforo done in the his
tory of tha government New York
World.
Depew' Childlike Optimism.
Mr. Depew told the convention in his
speech that this year's political battle
"will be won or lost upon the policy,
foreign and domestic, tho industrial
measures nnd the administrative acta of
the administration of Benjamin Harri
son." That is true, and Mr. Depew's
optimism was never more sharply em
phasized than in the cheerful way in
which ho contemplated such a prospect
for his party. New York World.
Ilownrd the Shepurdl
Why doesn't President Harrison thrill
tho country by appointing Colonel Bhep
ard to the vacant secretaryship of state?
Tho colonel would then have a chance
to demonstrate from the office filos that
Harrison, nnd not Blaino, actually filled
tho office of secretary and imparted to
it the luster which has even dazzled the
eyes of far Cathay. New York Adver
tiser. For Engltah Connumptloii.
Tho argument put forward in defense
of the McKinley tariff by Andrew Car
negie that "it possesses free trado fea
tures to a greater extent than protective
ones" is intended for English use only.
On this side of tho water thovtariff is
defended for other reasons. NcV Yor
World.
I'lutt'a Forte.
Evidence accumulates that Mr. Piatt's
forte is the express business. As a news
paper correspondent he is a deception,
and as a political leader he is a calamity.
New York Advertiser.
SoichuniM at the I'olU.
"Individual disappointments'' have
not controlled the Republican conven
tion. But they may have considerable
to do with the election.Sew York
World.
litwkod by UtUceuoldora.
A president with 150,000 officeholders
at las buck is a pretty hard man to beat
in a convention. Now York Advertiser.
Ami lli'fure TUem Too.
Some of tlie Blaine shouterti aro com
ing borne with their bridged burned bo
tiud them. Philadelphia Record.
OFFICEHOLDINQ WINS.
Frcilrfont HarrUim Will II Overwhelmed
Ht tho I'ollm
President Harrison, after all. has boon
renominated.
Officeholding wins.
Sentiment personality, magnetism
patriotism, gratitude for party and for
national services, indebtedness and
gratitude for personal services, tho
amenities, ethics and good faith which
are commonly ftuppoped to sulwist be
tween politicians of honor, no longer
tioin sway in tiiouepublicnn party. All
these have gone by the board, with the
signal overthrow of tho Republican
party s Idol, James G. Blaino, by Bon
Jamin Harrison s remorseless nso and
abuse of the forces in the federal offices.
A renotniuation thus obtained is the
reverse of an honor. It is a condemna
tion of the man who snatches it and of
the political system that has mode such
a result a possibility. The temptations
and the demoralising tendencies to
which the opportunity of a renomina
tion has exposed the presidential office
huve always been a matter of criticism
and concern with all thoughtful Amer
icans, it bos remained for President
Harrison to carry them to their most
dangerous and most revolting extreme.
Thus his administration, comparatively
iree rrom lesser scandals, has cul
minated in this vast scandal.
Mr. Harrison enters on his camnaiirn
for re-election handicapped not alone by
me crop oi resentments which lias been
sown in Minneapolis, but by the entirely
new and deep seated popular indigna
tion ana aistrust which his personal
struggles and his open and unscrupulous
employment of the highest and the low
est of the federal officials at his com
mand hnve awakened. This distrust
and condemnation are new. because no
president before Mr. Harrison has ever
afforded anything like such occasion for
them. Grant, Hayes, Arthur, Cleveland,
under widely varying circumstances,
each studiously avoided identifying his
administration with anything like a de
mand for a renominatiou.
President Benjamin Harrison will
take in American constitutional liistory
tho useful but unenviable place of tho
president who brought Hie nation to a
realizing and a vetoing sense of tho evils
and perils of a second term. After Mr.
Hnrnson shall have been overwhelmed
at the polls tho people of this land might
terminate in law their hostility to a
second term. No more second terms is
likely to be tho issue of this campaign.
New York Telegram.
PLATT AND NEW.
Tho Hew York World' Opinion of Them
an NtusUlirrtrii.
We are obliged to Mr. Piatt for let
ting the public know throueh Tim
World what ho thoncrht ho wished thn
people to think ho thought about the
situation at Minneapolis. But we are
compelled to say thRt, sorry as we are
tor iur. riatts impending retirement
from politics, the reputation he has
earned for accurate reporting will not
secure him a permanent iob on Thn
World.
Our compliments to Mr. New for his
very accurate work in reporting for The
World the situation at Minneapolis.
New'g newspaper training has stood
him in good stead. Should he wish to
retire from the consular service or from
partisan politics he can obtain a 6teady
job in the news department of The
World. New York World.
Sectional Politics.
The Republican platform
"the continued inhuman on trace nor.
petrated upon American citizens for po
litical reasons in certain southern states
of the Union.'" But not a word about
Port Jervis. The thirty-six electoral
votes which Mr. Harrison expects to re
ceive from New York should not hum
restrained the platform makers from
expressing an uonest protest against
lynching either in New York or Texn.
New York Advertiser.
Harrlaon In Ilaudlrupped.
Harrison ts handicapped with the
faults of a personal administration; with
the scandals ho has drawn upon himself
through the Wanamakors, the Porters,
the Raums and others of his associates;
with his advocacy of a force bill, and
with the secret if not the open enmity of
some of the most active political man
agers in bis party. New York Evening
And Ue Will lie the Lant.
Benjamin Harrison is the first presi
dent who ever secured a renomination
by an open and unblushing use of the
power and patronage of his great office.
Now York World.
The Nigger In the Woodpile.
The Republican platform conceals a
purjo8o to rovivo tho force bill with
undisputed truisms about "a free and
honest ballot" New York World.
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Evening World.
Lot In Now II aui pith I re's Woods.
Among all the "booms" at Minneapo
lis, it is strange that nothing was heard
of the ex-Senator Blair "boom." Phila
delphia Record.
Itlulne Not In It.
Wo foel authorized to state that Mr
Blaine will not be in Mr. Harrison's
next cabinet New York Advertiser.
Don't Give Htm Another Cbauoe.
Benjamin Hurrison signed the billion
dollar appropriations that squandered
the surplus. New York World.
Do You Want Mora of tlarrhtou?
The convention was In favor of a suo
ond term. Now to I rear from th coun
try. Wew Yrk Advertiser.
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