Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-08
HARRISON AND VICTORY!r
THE CRY OF THE PRESS THROUGH
OUT THE LAND.

| A National Ticket That An Classes of
| Americans Can Consistently Support.
| Leaders with the Brightest Records-A
| Clean and Strong Campaign Pressged.
| It 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 solidifed AID
unified the grand old party as that Of
| Harrison and Morton. There viii be no
| factions or soreheads in 1888, and mud
throwing viii De impossible. 1t viii 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 visor and
/ unaniulity that must De appalling TO our
! friends the enemy, and which presages an
! overwhelming victory in November. We
present collection Of newspaper COM
ments which viii show the feeling
throughout the party.
Philadelphia Press: The Republican na-
tiond convention has done more than
nominate the Republican candidate for
the presidency. it has named the next
American president. This lay in its
power, if it acted well and wisely in its
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-
ton has chosen the best candidate named
before it; with many political paths to
/ follow it has selected the safest.
Nominated in 1876 to lead 6 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 n0nlIlation 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
preponderating advantage of candidate
identified and in harmony with the politi-
cal machinery, which in closely con-
the last doubtful vote.
Personally, the national Republican
convention has placed before the country
man of clean life aid high ambition, .
brave soldier and an able senator who has
been right on every public question be-
cause he has brought principle to bear on
every public issue. His life as q man IS
stainless in all its relations from his youth
I'D: his career as a soldier owed it's every
promotion to brave and honorable service;
his position as lawyer places him IN the
forefront of the bar of his state, and his
record as public man and senator
shows an equal attention to the practical
work of politics and TO the painstaking
and sedulous discharge OF public duties:
Benjamin Harrison is no discovery CT
a day, 20 invention of campaign. lie Is
neither the product of caucus nor the
offspring Of machine. Nor has he stood
among those useless men who share the
advantages Of a free government without
discharging its duties, and whose sole
political activity is shown in criticism g
the work OF those who do discharge them
Levi P. Morton won long ago g national
reputation as the head of one OF the great
banking firms in the world. Elected to
the house of representatives, he there
added to his fame and justified the high
expectations of his friends by his speeches
OF financial questions, wiIleh showed that
he was not merely practical banker, but
understood the theory and philosophy OF
finance II its largest sense and In its Ia
tional aspects. He is a man whose talents
and tastes qualify him conspicuously FOL
high public Office, and there IS an evident
fitness IN giving this representative ano
leading citizen Of New York the second
place on the Republican national ticket
the first having gone to the all powerful
west.
New York Tribune: A convention re-
markable for its cool and patient deiber
alton, which has never been surpassed II
its declaration of Republican principles
has nominated as the Republican candl
date for the presidency ex-senator Benja
min Harrison, of Indiana. The seat II
the United States senate which he filled
worthily and with honor had been stoler
by Democratic crime His nomination fol
higher Office gives the people OF Indiana
an opportunity, which they will probably
improve, to show their detestation or th'
crime and OF the parry which made MIR
Cleveland president by robbing citizen:
of their rights.
The nomination Of the Hon L. P. Nor
ton for vice president will give especia
satisfaction to business men OF this state
who know we'll his merits. True 10 the
policy which has led it to select candi
dates with peculiar regard to theil
. strength in the doubtful states, the con
vention was not able to concede the frs
place to the choice OF New York, but &C
cepted for the second place the candidate
; named by this state, remembering how
> creditably he had acquitted himself IL
, public service at home and abroad, L
congress and az minister to France.
. 1t has been said repeatedly that tn
, coming contest would turn less upon tn
personal merits of candidates than upol
the great principles involved. Yet it VII
, be found to the Republican cause dis
. tinct advantage that it Is to be repre-
. scented BY one who is personally strong
as Mr. Cleveland is personally weak, L
those elements OF character which CON
. nand public confidence. Nor IS it dis
, advantage tha, the doubtful state of Ii
diana, after presenting candidate 20 tn
Democratic convention only TO see III
slaughtered ct the bidding Of party des
pot, now has opportunity TO elect the mos
popular citizen Of the state instead Of Nh
> Cleveland
With man 50 strong and worthy, -
Republican party has right TO LOOK 70
6 popular uprising no; unlike that whic
= swept Martin Van Buren, frora power /
8 1870. lie had been successful throug
arts Of the demasogue; he had prostitute
the public service 70 his private ambition
and the people found four years Of Demo-
racy moro than enough They electe
Harrison to put sn end TO The prostiru'ioc