Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-18


The Republican Ticket Not . Strong One
1t win Load the Party TO Defeat.
General Harrison's nomination is not in
anv sense a strong one. He is lacking In
most of the qualities which combine to make
great party leader and popular candidate
before the people. He has not been
specially distinguished either in military or
civil life. His service in the Union army
was brief and inconspicuous He was
one of a multitude of Brigadier- Generals
who left the field while the conflict was at
its fiercest to engage in politics. His career
since the war has made little impression
upon the country. His single term in the
| United States Senate revealed him only as
an intense and bitter partisan and faith
ful friend of the corporations, to which lat
ter fact he Is indebted for the distinction
which has been conferred upon him at Chi
cago. He never took leading position in
the Senate, and but for the accident of his
residence in a close and uncertain State, he
would certainly have relapsed into obscurity
upon his retirement from that body.
Here in Indiana, says the Indianapolis
Sentinel, where General Harrison is best
known, his unpopularity is proverbal In
diana is not Republican State and General
Harrison is not as strong as the Republican
party in Indiana. His associations and
sympathies are all with the enemies of the
people; with the class of which Gould Van
derbilt, Blaine and Depew are the leading
representatives, and whose faithful, willing
and obsequious servant General Harrison
has always been, He is exclusive and aris-
tocratic in his tastes and habits; proud, cold
and austere in his temperament, and il he
does not feel hearty contempt for those
whom Mr.. Lincoln used TO cali ''the plain
people, he has been strongly misunderstood
all these years in his own State, among
those who have had the best opportunity to
study and understand his character
We wish TO do entire Justice TO General
Harrison, aud we therefore take pleasure
in saying that his private life is unassailable.
He is a clever lawyer and ready and fofci-
BILE public speaker. lie is a man of reading
and culture, and if not brilliant on the stump
is industrious, energetic and painstaling.
When this is said about all is said that can
truthfully be spoked of General Harrison in
his public character
General Harrison can not carry Indiana
and he can not be elected He is identified
with the cause of monopoly and in this
campaign monopoly is going to be defeated.
The platform adopted at Chicago is tho
most outspoken, audacious and aggressive
declaration in favor of monopoly that any
political party in the United States has ever
had the effrontery to put forth. Standing
Ou SuCn a PLATFORM ldf stronger C0nulual6
than General Harrison would be certain of
defeat. His personality will cut little fig
ure in the campaign outside of Indiana.
Here his name at the head of any ticket
would be enough to insure its rejection. In
the country at large the issue which the
Republican party has raised sounds its
death knel. The people are tired of paying
war taxes in time of peace. They are tired
of the monstrous abuse of the taxing power
of the Government in the interest OF mo-
nopoly; they are tired of being plucked and
pluDdered by rapacious corporations, and
by the trusts and combines which the high
protective tariff has created; they are OPP
posed to the policy which has enriched a
favored few at the expense of the masses,
and they are pleased with the wise, patri-
otic and statesmanlike administration of
Mr.. Cleveland.
Every thing indicates the triumphant
election of Cleveland and Thurman, not
only because the Republicans have named
weak candidate against them, but also, and
mainly, because they represent principle
and policy which the people heartily APP
| prove.