Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-12
"HARRISON AND VICTORY!w
THE CRY OF THE PRESS THROUGH
OUT THE LAND.
A National Ticket That All Glasses of
Americans Can Consistently support.
Lenders with the Brightest Reeords--A
Clean and Strong Campaign Presaged.

Lenders with the Brightest Records
1t seems as if it would have been i'm
possible for the Republican national con
vention at Chicago to have selected another
ticket that would have so solidified and
i unified the grand old party as that OF
Harrison and Morton. There viii be no
factions or soreheads in 1885, and mud
! throwing will be impossible. 1t will be the
cleanest and strongest campaign on rec
ord. The great warriors of the press have
simultaneously rolled up their sleeves and
gone into the fight with yigor and a
unanimity that must be appalling to ota'
friends the enemy, and which presages an
overwhelming victory in November. We
present collection of newspaper COM
Jnents which will show the feeling
throughout the party.
| Philadelphia Press: The Republican ma
tional convention has done more than
nominate the Republican candidate for
the presidency, it has named the next
American president. This lay in It's
power, if it acted well and wisely in ats
selection, and it has acted wisely and well
in placing Benjamin Harrison at the head
of the Republican ticket. With the best
| of the party to choose from, the conVen,
| tion has chosen the best candidate named
before it; with many political paths to
| follow it has selected the safest.
| Nominated in 1876 to lead forlorn
hope. BENJAMIN Harrison carried his party
| to the very threshold of victory. His
/ brilliant leadership swept the state in
| 1880, elected Garfield and placed himself
! in the senate. In 1886 he carried the
state again on the popular vote, and lost
the legislature only when the continuing
fraud of gerrymander was supplemented
by q corrupt election and the reckless and
Illegal violence of Democratic senate.
He enters another canvass with this in
justice to avenge. His nomination places
at The head of the Republican campaign
in Indiana the successor of Morton, the
best political organizer of the state and
its most distinguished citizen 1t. gives
the Republican canvass the enormous and
praponderating advantage of candidate
Identified and in harmony with the politi-
cal machinery, which in o closely con-
tested state decides the battle by polling
the last doubtful vote.
Personally, the national Republican
convention has placed before the country
man of clean life and high ambition, q
brave soldier and an able senator who has
been right on every public question be
cause he has brought principle to bear OF
every public issue. His life as man is
| stainless in all it's relations from his you'll
4 up; his career rs a soldier owed its every
promotion to brave and honorable service
his position as IL lawyer places him in tht
| forefront of the bar Of his state, and his
record as public man and senate
shows an equal attention to the practica
work of politics and to the painstakins
and sedulous discharge of public duties.
Benjamin Harrison is no discovery o.
day, no invention of campaign. He il
, neither the product of caucus nor th,
offspring Of o machine. Nor has he stood
among those useless men who share tn
advantages of a free government withou
, discharging its duties, and whose sol
political activity is shown in criticisin
the work of those who do discharge them
Levi p. Morton won long ago nationa
reputation as the head of one of the grea
. banking firms in the world. Elected t
the house of representatives, he ther
added to his fame and justified the hig
expectations of his friends by his speeche
on financial questions, which showed tha
he was not merely practical banker, bu
understood the theory and philosophy {
finance in its largest sense and in its n;
tional aspects. He is man whose talent
;. and tastes qualify him conspicuously fc
high public Office, and there is an evider
fitness in giving this representative an
leading citizen of New York the secon
place on the Republican national ticke
! the first having gone to the all powerf,
west.
New York Tribune: A convention r
markable for its cool and patient delibe
alton, which has never been surpassed
its declaration of Republican principle
has nominated as the Republican cand
date for the presidency ex- Senator BENZ
min Harrison, of Indiana. The seat
the United States senate which he fill,
6' worthily and with honor had been stole
by Democratic crime. His nomination f
ID an opportunity, which they will probab
improve, to show their detestation of Il
crime and of the party whick made M
,e Cleveland president by robbing citizel
of their rights.
The nomination of the Hon. L. P. Nc
I'd ton for vice president will give especi
8. satisfaction to business men of this stat
- who know well his merits. True to t
policy which has led it to select cant
dates with peculiar regard to tbs
y strength in the doubtful states, the co
vention was not able to concede the fir
place to the choice of New York, but q
cepted for the second place the candida
named by this state, remembering he
creditably he had acquitted himself
public service at home and abroad,
congress and as minister to France.
It has been said repeatedly that t
coming contest would turn less upon t
q personal merits of candidates than up
y the great principles involved. Yet it W
be found to the Republican cause d
tinct advantage that it is to be rep
sented by one who Is personally sttron
as Mr. Cleveland is personally weak,
those elements of character which co
q mand public confidence. Nor is it
advantage that the doubtful state of J
diana, after presenting q candidate to
Democratic convention only to see h
slaughtered at the bidding of party d
pot, now has opportunity to elect the mi
popular citizen Of the state instead of
Cleveland.
With man so strong and worthy,
Republican party has right to look
N popular uprising not unlike that VIII
\ \ swept Martin Van Bnren from power
e 1910. He had been successful throu
arts of the demagogue; he had prostitu
the public service to his private ambiti
z and the people found four years of Dem
racy more than enough. They elec
Harrison to put an end to the prostitut
OF the public service, and this year
,or election Of another Harrison would br
tol the same result. The needs of the nat
ak- will be felt in the coming struggle
more than the personality of candida
threatened Industries, the robbery of
J peoples rights in the south and in Il
! ana, the debauchery of the public serv
should make the Republican cause i