The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-07-28
HARRISON AND CALIFORNIA,
| From the Dallas News. I

The Boston Herald thinks that Cali
fornia has been playing bluff aud
bully game in declaring that no man
with record not strictly anti-Chinese
could hope to carry that state. The
Herald cites the action of the California
delegation at Chicago, which pledged
the full vote of the Pacific slope to Gen.
Harrison, when but the very day pre-
vious il had declared that his nomina-
ton would be fatal to any hope of car
ryiug it. "Had The republicans omitted
from fear to nominate HARRISON" SAYS,
the Herald,''it would always have BEEN
claimed that no man with his record
could carry California;" The Herald,
ls usually very clear headed paper
and generally manages to strike hear
the truth III its representations, and il
Is eminently correct in crediting the,
California republicans with playing .
bluff and bully game. but it has got the
thing little mixed and placed the cart
before the horse. The bluffing and
bullying began the day Harrison was
nominated over the vigorous protests
OF the Pacific delegation. The truth,
and nothing but the truth, was told by
them when they fought against his
selection rs the party leader, which
they felt would be the death blow to-
republican hopes. The Herald might
have saved its reputation as a political
prophet II it had omitted all illusions
to the ability of man with Harrison's
Chinese record to carry California, for
it should be remembered that Gen.
Harrison has simply received the re-
publican nomination and is apparently
very far from demonstrating the folly
OF those who opposed his nomination,
for he has not yet received the electo-
raj votes of California, nor does there
appear to be much prospect of his doing
50. The Herald evinces more credulity
than sagacity ~ hen it places faith in the
utterances of such men as those who
composed the California delegation to
the Chicago convention, and who dem
onstrated their instability by turning
about and branding as false, one day,
every statement they had made on the
same floor the day before. The Herald
has had experience enough with poll
licians of this order to be aware that
they are habitually economical with the
truth, and if ever exceptionally free
with 1t, the OCCASION is before, never
after the nomination of q candidate
Mr.. DE Young and others of the Cali
tornia delegation said, the day before
Harrison was nominated, that it would
be the height of folly and stupidity to
put him, or any one else with such O
pro-Chinese record at the head of the
ticket. These men spoke then as prac-
tical politicians, perfectly familiar with
the question in all its bearings. How.
ever, they were overridden and Harri-
son was nominated, and now they
speak as muZzled partisans, who are
forced to make the best of a bad bar
gain. Since the Chicago convention
adjourned public opinion has begun to
} crystalize and everything now points
to the practical sagacity of the stand
taken by the Californians before the
: nomination. Yet as well Informed ano
} intelligent a paper as the Herald be
lieves in the bluff and bully theory ol
the first stand of the Callfornians
!: although there is absolutely nothing t
base such bluster on. When Harrison
has carried California it will be tim,
] enough for the Herald and the republi
2 can papers to point out the "wisdom o
S the Chicago convention i'm refusing 4
+ be dictated to b, California" but unit
D then il might be we'll for them not t
. place too much faith in the presen
, buster OF Dc Young ct al.