Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-20
INDIANA REPUBLICANS.
They Have Done Well to Stand BY Rar.
rison and to Send a Solid Delegation for
Him to Chicago.


They Have Done Well to Stand BY Rar-
rison and to Send a Solid Delegation for
Him to Chicago.
The Indiana Republicans have done well
! in choosing a solid Harrison delegation to
| the National convention. SO far as Indiana
| is concerned the claims Of Mr.. Harrison
are paramount; he was early in the field as
a candidate. and pledges were made TO hIIn
and in his behalf before the name OF any
| other native of the State was presented to
the people. Indeed Mr.. Harrison is even
now the only Indianian who is directing
| personal campaign, the candidacy of Judge
| Gresham being creation Of the people Of
various States, and not even now directed
by himself. not now :. organized,' in the
sense of having directorate of clubs or
" literary bureaus" all Of which are legti-
| mate and honorable methods Of campaign
! management
The thousands of Republicans in every
| State Of tho Union who anticipate the nom
| ination Of Judge Gresham as the most
needful and certain preliminary to the
election of Republican President grudge
Mr.. Harrison none of his deserved honors
in Indiana: they unite with the Indiana con-
ventiOD IN recognizing him as 81 a Republic
an without equlvocatlon, always in the fore
front of every contest, devoted TO the
principles Of the party with which he has
| been identified since its organization, prom
| inent and Jealous in all its campaings. wise
ana trusted in its councils, serving with
/ honorable distinction in the military and
civil service Of the Government"
II, says the Chicago Ltter OCEAN, the con-
vention should nominate Mr. Harrison the
friends Of Judge Gresham would be found
willing and potent espousers Of his election.
And it IS pleasant to learn from the report
of the Indiana convention that while Har-
rlson Is its first choice, there is no unfriend-
~ feeling toward that other distinguished
soldier, jurist and statesman whose candi-
dacy is literally and supremacy spon-
| taneous creation Of popular viii.
It would be impossible that Indiana Re-
pubEcans should De hostile 20 an Indianian
whose integrity, ability and altruism have
made HIM the choice of the great State of
Illinois and Of other States of but slightly
less political import. While the Republican
convention OF Indiana did honor TO Itself by
instruc ing its delegates 10 the National
convention :" 20 work earnestly and persist
emily to secure the nomination of Mr.. Har-
rison, eXhausing every honorable means to
accomplish that object" it did Itself not less
LCuCf Wnen IL broke into VOcncrOuS aD-
plaUse at mention OF the name Of the distin-
guished Indianian for whom Illinois has de-
clared its Presidential preference. When
Mir. HarrisOn's chances of nomination are
eXhausted-if it be ordained that they shall
be eXhausted-it Will be strange if Indiana
does not AID and rejoice in the nomination
Of her other equally able and, as Illinois
and other States think, more available citi-
zen.
The resolution in approval Of Senator In
gals Lagellatlon Of Senator Voorhees, meant
d great deal. 1t was the expression of the
deliberate judgment of all Republicans and
many Democrats as TO the exceedingly bad
taste and worse policy of d party which
still prefers men with unpatriotic record to
men OF unblemished records; that shelves
Mcdonald, IN Indiana, and Thurman, in
Ohio, approves the patronage at the dis
p0sal of Voorhees, and the honors heaped
upon Lamar. 1t is all well.enough to let by
cones be bygOnes. but when a Democratic
Administration honors those Democrats
whose bygoncs are tainted with disroyalty
and Sights those Democrats whose records
are untingcd with disroalty, the question
arises as 10 whether the sympathes Of that
Administration are not more with the foes
than with the friends Of perfect and eter-
nal Union of the States