Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-01

life has sent its representatives on
missions of congratulation and assur-
ance of support in accomplishing the
election of the champion of pro-
lection 20 American industries and
American ballots.
1t would be superfuous to write
again of the ease, the warmth, the
elegance, the courage and the pati'i-
otlsm of General Harrison's well
comes and responses to the numer-
GUS delegations. Let the election go
as it may, he has won an enviable
repute as the most modest and most
convincing tribune of the people
that the country has listened to since
Lincoln's day. But in the last act
of the great drama, whose central
figure he has been, the Republican
nominee appears at his best. In
other acts he has been genial, ele-
CANT, eloquent, courageous; in the
last his utterances are tinged by a
noble pathos. He had been slandered
and had replied in the eloquence of
silent scorn; but when thousands of
laborers to whose interests or pas
sions those ISLANDERS were specially
addressed gathered to give him
assurance of their confidence and of
their disbelief in and detestation of
the foul falsehoods of his enemies,
the man who led the charge at
Resaca faltered, the orator who had
delighted myriads hesitated for a
word, and for a moment there was
such silence as eliminates a perfect
Joy.
But it was only for moment;
The glory OF the sum of things
VIII flash along the chordsand go,
That which the malicious envy of
SANDER could not do the affectionate
assurance of his friends among the
wage-earning people did; it moved
him to denial. Without bitterness
and without passion, and without
egotism he brands the whole batch
of wicked aspersion as "not perver-
sion of anything | ever said; it is a
false creation" Not word more
about himself-"the purpose of all
these stories was to poison the minds
of the working men against the can
didate of the party that stands in
this campaign for the principle of
protection to American labor" How
manly! He refuses to believe that
the lies were uttered against him
self az an individual, and assumes
them to have been against the cause
which he represents. A weaker per
son would have found occasion for
a little not objectionable self lau
dation.
There is breezy and invigorating
prophecy in these words;
want TO say again that those who pitch q
campaign upon so low level greatly under
estimate the intelligence the sense of deoency
aud the love OF fair play Of the American peo
pie. | said to one OF the first delegations thai
visited me that this was contest OF great
| principles; that it would be fought out upor
the high plains OF truth, ald not in the swamp
of SANDER and defamation Those who viii
encamp their army in the swamp will abandon
/ the victory to the army mat is on the heights,
"The right with the might anC
the truth shall win" The Republi
can campaign has not been one o
SANDER; it will not degenerate int,
one of bribery and corruption. Tht
appeal has so far been to the reason
and the conscience OF the people
the demand has henceforth to be 70
a free and unbought ballot and
fair couut-and in the northern tier
at least, these things will be insisted
upon. With them it is sure that tn
man whose name and praise has be
come to the people of this Republic
"familiar in their mouths as house
hold words" will be the next Presi
dent, and that under his admins
tration we shall enjoy Commercial
independence, and the even create
blessing Of free ballot in all tn
States Inter Ocean.