Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
1He RsPueLIcAN NOMINATIONS.



ATieIet which SIakcs Democratic Vic
tory Doubly Certain a
Excepting Blaine, the Republican con-
vention could have chosen no presidential
candidate whose nomination would give
greater satisfaction to tho Democracy
than that of Harrison, of Indiana.
Bitterly opposed by an influential wing
Of the Republican party in his own state,
he is even weaker than when the canvass
in which he was defeated by "Blue Jeans"
Williams fastened upon him the appella-
tionof kid Glove Harrison" His course
in congress in championing tho Chinese
invasion of the American industrial world
has earned for him tho hostility of labor
organizations, and rendered utterly hope
less the effort to select Republican electors
in the Pacific states.
In Indiana he will be conspicuously
weaker than Thurman, the western rep
resentative ON the Democratic ticket.
Thurman is admired and revered by every
Indiana Democrat. Harrison is the choice
only of the Republical machine of the
state, in the narrowest sense of the term.
The Gresham movement was protest
against Harrisonism strong enough at
home to secure the support abroad of
powerful states like Illinois.
The source and inspiration of the Ores
ham forces came from Indiana, and OK
pressed the sentiments of the ndepend-
ents, us well as those of that better
element of the Republican party which
was ostracized and silenced by the re-
morseless managers of the machine Har-
rison will receive in his own state less
than strict party vote, as the liberals
and the dissatisfied Republicans, as well
as the Independents, will flock to the
standard of Cleveland and Thurman.
Even within the narrowest lines of his
own party Harrison will be q weak candi-
date everywhere. He will lack the
strength that Sherman would have had
in some southern states which are claimed
to be possibly debatable, and the damag-
ing record to which Ingalls, alluded in his
frankly critical letter will prevent hearty
cooperation of Republican workers in his
support. From adopted citizens he can
expect nothing but the active hostility
due to On old time proscriptionist.
Personally, Harrison represents nothing
except species of aristocratic pretension
to which the American people do not take
kindly, and which becomes specially
dangerous when placed at the head of the
baser elements in politics.
The support of the great monopoly cor
porations will not impart to the Republi-
can nominee sufficient force in the cam
paign to overcome his unpopularity with
the masses. 1t will not be forgotten that
it was railroad influence that selected him
in preference to Allison or others who were
favored by localities and influence in
spired by the popular sentiment known
as the Granger" spirit.
With nominee titly chosen by the
monopoly machine to represent its worst
developments; without the winning per-
sonal~ qualities that sometimes lend
strength to the representatives of fail
ing causes; negative candidate on q
negative platform; the fgurehead of q
reactionary movement against equal
rights and the just protection of Ameri-
can labor and civilization-Gen. Har-
rison will be beaten most disastrously by
the forces of progress and American pros
perity, led for the second time to triumph
by Grover Cleveland York Star.