Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-05
HARRISON IN THE NORTHWEST.
His Popularity in That Section Unques-
toned.


1 His Popularity in That Section Unques-
toned.
| His strength throughout the Northwest
is undoubted, and he viii carry the States
OF Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa easily and without especial effort be-
ing required In this State particular
~, says the Minneapolis Tribune. he
I has a large following. and, while
( he may not achieve the majority Of
/ forty thousand given to Mr.. Blaine four
years ago, he viii reach the figure of twenty
or thirty thousand easily. His nomination
will be received in Dakota with an enthusi-
asn second only to that which Will be
given to it in Indiana, for throughout the
great disfranchised Territory he is looked
upon as their patron saint and most loyal
benefactOr. Dakota has no voice in 1883.
save the voice Of her loyal sons through the
press and ON the stump; but there will be
heard repeated until it becomes veritable
household word throughout the North, the
rewardless services given to her insuted
children by General Harrison while serving
Indiana in the Senate.
General Harrison will be elected to sue
coed Grover Cleveland. The platform and
the man fit well together, and combined
they are irresistible. The candidate is an
American by more than birth and educar
ton. He is an American in his thoughts and
his instincts, in his courage and his
achievements; in his constancy and his
purity. He stands before the young men
of the country as a splendid example of
what honest effort can accomplish when 1t
is welded to high and answering principle.
He springs from a race of leaders, and
proves the purity Of his descent by mar
shalling the hosts of the party of moral
purity in as righteous cause as his ances-
tors ever struck manly blows for while fol-
lowing Oliver Cromwell IN his battle
against the divine right of Kings.
General Harrison will be elected The
country has tired of the hypocrisy and false
pretenses of MIR. Cleveiand-who reforms
the civil-service of the Nation with wink of
one eye, while he ties the hands of American
industry with British free-trade. He will
be elected because he represents the only
party that makes an open, honest, manly
fight for principle; because he stands for
perfect justice to the colored race in the
Sonth; because he believes not alone in
sympathetic home rule for the down.
trodden people of Ireland, but also
for practical home rule for the
downtrodden people of Dakota; because
under the principle of judicious protection
this Nation has grown to be the greatest on
earth; and because it does not now feel in
clined to become the hanGmaiden of the
Tory Government of England.
The Republican party and the people of
the Nation no less are to be congratulated
on the fortunate outcome of the holly con-
tested fight at Chicago. 1t has resulted as
all thoughtful and patriotic men believed it
would-in the selection of Presidential
who is so armored in purity that
even Democratic mud can make no stain
upon him, and when he shall enter the
W hlte House as successor to the present
the Nation will start anew upon
an era Of substantial prosperity and growth
which we believe viii continue indefinitely.