Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-11
Worse than Personalities.

Worse than Personalities.
There Isl general feeling of satisfaction
that this is sexpected to be campaign free
from offensive personalities such as mark
ed the campaign Of four years ago. But
there is form of personal attack adopted
by the Democratic journals which is just
as dispicable and disgraceful as any as
sault on the moral character of a candi-
date.
The perversion of Gen. Harrison's rec
ord on the Chinese exclusion measure is
of hisdespicable kind. Some of the more
respectable Democratic papers do not hes
itate to make campaign ammunition of a
record which at heart they approve;
which they believe to be honorable and
which they know TO be Identical with
their own record on this question
Gen. Harrison assisted in preparing and
he voted for the Chinese measure which
became law. In common with all other
high-minded men, in common with the
leading Democratic journals, he was op-
posed to disgraceful and unnecessary
violation of treaty, while at the same
time he was in favor of the exclusion of
the Chinese. His view was that of most
honorable men both in and out of politics.
This view was reflected in the course of
The Sentinel, which advocated measure
TO exclude the hordes of Cinnamon who
might have poured into this country
under the former treaty, " hile at the same
time it opposed the measure which Presi
dent Arthur felt bound to veto. That
veto was endorsed by the very Democratic
journals which now undertake to make
political capital against Gen. Harrison,
whose course was honorable and a credit
TO the people of this country.
Another despicable misrepresentation,
made with deliberate villainy, is in rela-
tion to his course in the railroad troubles
of 1877. In common with Senator Nc
Donald, Judge Gresham and other public
men, he was appointed to place on several
committees of public safety and put in
command of volunteer companies to pre-
serve the peace and public property. The
fact is that he showed no unfriendliness
toward the strikers while performing his
duty as citizen, but on the contrary be
interceded to save from punishment those
who were sentenced to Imprisonment
The purpose of these disgraceful mis-
representations is to array workingmen
as a body against Gen. Harrison. The
work is done by journals which have
deprecated, in other times, the political
action of workingmen as body. The
effect of such Misrepresentation on society
is far more serious than the disgraceful
personalities which the Democratic news
papers condemn. When the state author
tiles call on citizen to perform duty in
maintaining the peace, he must recognize
the fact that he does this duty at the peril
of his political future; that to perform
citizens duty at a crisis is not to win
honor, but only to supply despicable party
journals with material for misrepresenta-
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