Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-05
HIS POPULARITY GROWING.

Harrison's Attitude on the Chinese Ques-
tion-A Man of Broad Views and Up
with the Times.
No one, says an editorial writer in Frank
Leslies Illustrated. can read the organs OF
the two great political parties without be-
ing convinced that the accessions to the
Republican party are thus far more numer-
Gus than to the Democratic. The Republic
an National ticket, as is SO often said, is a
growing ticket, and the second impressions
concerning it are even more favorable than
the first. General Harrison's bearing has
been admirable ever since his nomination.
Calmness. dignity and repose Of manner
have marked his intercourse with those
about him All his addresses thus far de-
hvered have been characterized By good
judgment and good taste. His little speech
to the party of Michigan visitors who called
on him was excellent in sentiment and
language, reminding one of some of Cen
eral Garfield's happiest efforts. General
Harrison, while at the bar, as in the church
and in public life, has shown himself to be
a lIberal-minded, well-pofSed, broad man.
He IS symmetrically developed and level
headed. He never refuses to accept new
views when they prove to be true views.
AS far back as February of this year, in a
letter to Rev. J. B. Brandt, of St Louis, he
wrote:
Il did vote with the great body of the Re-
publicans in the Senate against the Chinese
Restriction bill, as 1t was called. 1t seemed
to me then to be in violation of our treaty
with China, and it was a little hard for me
to let go of the old idea that this was the
free home of all corners. think there has
been general change of sentiment on that
subject since. We do not need to ask any
body to come to this country now as we
formerly did, and think we have q right to
preserve our own institutions by exercising
a fair election as to who shall come here I
do not like that class of immigration that
comes in gangs, that can be driven into
pens and on shpboard, and hired, not by
personal contract, but by bosses; and the
Chinese immigration is very much of that
sort"
This shows the breadth of man, who,
though out Of public life, wishes to keep
abreast of his times His record on the
Chinese question needs no other explana-
ton or Interpretation than this His atti-
tude in the United States Senate on the al-
mission of new States was that Of states
man. On all constitutional, financial and
suffrage questions upon which he expressed
himself his opinions were enlightened and
sound. This could hardly be otherwise
when we consider the precepts, teachings
and examples of his illustrious ancestry.
Benjamin Harrison, of the Revolution,
was not only a slgner of the Declaration of
for three terms Governor of
the then foremost State in the Union, but
was the personal friend of the immortal
" ashington. General William Henry Har-
rlscn received his first commission from
at the age of nineteen: was
by General Anthony Wayne for
repeated acts of valor; gained his great VIC
while Governor of Indiana; was member
If both houses of Congress and negotiated
more good treaties with the Indians than /
my American VINO has ever llved His
election as President of the United States
n 1910 was so triumphant that Van Buren,
only sixty electoral votes. He
made Daniel Webster his Secretary of
State, John ]. Crittenden his Attorney
General, and Thomas Ewing his Secretary
If the Interior. No purer public man or
Otter patriot ever breathed than William
Henry Harrison. AS men suffer discredlt
rom the bad deeds and ill-repute of their
it seems but just that the good
leeds and noble lives of their fathers
should reflect upon them some honor and
,redt. Other things being equal, no man
las ever lost any thing, socially or other
wise, by belonging to family that for
century filed an honorable place in affairs.