Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-06
PLAINLY STATED.

"A Democratic Newspaper Gives the
Chicago Tribune Deserved Scor-
Ing.
Louisville Courier Journal: The
Courier.Journal enters protest against
the course OF the Chicago Tribune in She
present campaign. 30 far as we hRye
observed, it is the only promlnens news
paper OF the country which has descended
to mud-throwing. Indeed, with this
exception, the campaign has been clean !,
both parties seeming willing to conduct
II on political issues, and not on dis
gusting personalities. But here ia the
Tribune which, republican paper as it
Is, publishes communication asserting
that HaErison's maternal grandfather
was common thief, and that he met
his death while perpetrating burglary.
CATER publishing the article about
General Harrison's grandfather, as
printed in the columns OF the Chicago
Tribune. the Oourler-J ourhal continues: y
This is simply abolninable. In the first
place, The Inter Ocean has investigated
the story and declares that 1t is not true.
In the second event il it were true, it
could have no place in the campaign in
which MIR. Harrison, and not his grand
father, is @ candidate. No man 1a re-
sponsible either for his grandfather or
his father. and no self-respecting Ameri.
can will seek to make q point against
any political ssplrant in this country on
any such contemplate grounds. Mr..
Harrison is what he is, and is to be
judged by neither the vices nor the viz.
tues OF his ancestors, He does
not deserve to be president, and
he will not be president, not on
account of anything which his progeni-
tors may or may not have done, bat on
account Of his own shortcomings and
views, and those of the party which he
represents. We trust no democratic
paper will take up this absurd story of
the Tribune's. The only injury such q
change can do any one vii! result to
those making it. Leave il to the Chicago
republican paper, and let il wallow in its
own mud.
We do not know the Tribune's motives
in publishing this story about its candi-
date. and we do not set ourselves up to
Judge them, bat there ls certainly war
rant for suspicion that 10 is not OF oil
happy in it's forced support of O man
whom it lampooned and abused inces-.
sanity before his nomination--a man
whose principles are radically hostile to
all that the Tribune ably advocated for
Blk months before the Chicago conven-
tion. Is ID still sore because this mau
was chosen in preference to its favorite,
Gresham? Is it induced to resort to mud
because il cannot say anything on the
issues OF the campaign without oom-
ple.ely stultiiyIng itself? We know
| that its position is an exceedingly en-
bsrraasing one, but it can only blame
itself for it. II 1t has not the courage to
advocate what 1t believes to be right,
simply because rsrty with which ii
has been nominally acting has put up q
bad candidate on the platform indorsinR
all that the Tribune believes to be
| wrong. 40 far as the issues before the
country are concerned, il ct least should
have the decency to abstain from che
methods OF the gutter in opposing his
election.
We haye no doubt but that the Tri.
bune would like to see Harrison beaten.
II certainly can not desire his election
and retain one shred OF honesty and
consistency. But il should fight him
because he represents the principles and
the policy which the Tribune believes "a
be wrong and ruinous to the welfare oi
the country, and not, while pretending
to favor his election and thus retain his
republican subscribers, seek to heap con.
tumely upon him in an underhsnd and
scandalous manner.