The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-29
THE NOMINATIONS OF HARRISON.
Extracts From the Speech Of E~x-Governo,
Portor at the Chicago Convention. /

! VOA0S AoA6Ssy ~ Va ~
position. She is always regarded as being .
close state, but when The Republican party
is thoroughly organized, when 1t has done
the preliminary work of the CANVASS we'll,
and when its spirit is kindle6 into flames, !
Indiana seldom fails to elect the Republi-
can candidates. She has never been better
organized for . successful contest than now;
preliminary work has never been more com
plete and thorough, and the Republican
masses seem never to have been more highly
reused and eager for the struggle. Give
Gen. Benjamin Harrison your commission
into line and press forward with enthusiast
tic confidence to victory. The Convention
that lately met al st. Louis disappointed the
Democracy of Indiana by refusing to place
an Indiana candidate on their ticket. There
is q tide in the affairs of parties, as we'll as
| Of men, which taken at the food leads on to
fortune. The present condition of Indiana
is the Republican par.y's opportunity. Why
risk shipwrecks on any shadows when the
full aud welcoming sea invites your sails:
Benjamin Harrison came to Indiana in 1854,
at the age of twenty-one. He came poor in
pnrse, but rich in resolution. No one ever
heard him make first q reference to his an
| cestors. Self.reliant be mounted the back:
of prosperity without the aid Of a STRAP
The hospitality of his ancestors had gtsep
their property to those whom they had served
The core had gone to the'peop'e, the rind
only to them and their families.
He received, indeed, something from them
their talents, their integrity, their fitness
for public trusts, and what to some persons
would have seemed q misfortune. but to %
heart so stout as his was the highest good
fortune, he received from them the inesti-
mable> legacy Of penury, Upon his arrival
in the state he entered ut once upon the
practice of law and Immediately achieved
success. Amplitude of preparation, a large
view of questions, a mind marvellously
prompt in yielding up its stores, and 30 ex-
haustive in its power of reasoning that no
argument that would help his case was ever
found to have been om%itted-these gave him
rank at once in his profession. In union.
with these was found q fairness that sought
no mean advantages and an integrity that
never could be shaken. The young lawyer.
leaned on nobody's arm for help. Modest,
but self-confdent, his manner seemed to
say, II am an honest tub, standing on his
own bottom" It was perceived from the
| start that in web and woof he was of heroic
stuff. While he was engaged in the practice
of the law and was rapidly rising to distinc-
ton the great Rebellion raised its hand to
strike down the Union. %Relinquishing his
profession, its emolument, and the fame to
which it was reckoning him, he yielded to
the imperative demand of duty, raising q.
regiment, and receiving from Morton the
commission of q colonel. He marched with
Sherman to the sea. He was in the thick
ofthe fight at Resaca and Atlanta; and his
gallantry and the efficiency of his well
| disciplined command were SO conspicuous
on those fields as to draw from the heroic
| Hooker, in the letter to the secretary of
war, the highest public commentator of
his industry as q discip'inarian, and skill
and intrepidity as a soldier. He was not
unknown to the people Of Indiana before he
| entered the army. At a state election they
had chosen him to the Office of reporter of
| opponents took the Office from him while he
I was serving as a soldier in the field. The
people while he was yet Ia the field, re-
| elected him, and on returning home on the
disbandment of Sherman's forces he. re-
ceived his commission. On account of his
eloquence as a speaker and extraordinary
/ power as a debater Gen. Harrison was called
upon at an uncommonly early age to take
| part in the public discussion of the mighty
| question that had begun to agitate the coun-
try, and he was early matched against some.
of the most eminent speakers of the Dem.
ocratlc party. None who ever felt the point
Of his blade desired to engage with him
again. Possessing oratorical powers Of q
high order he has never spoken for mere
| rhetorical effect. He seems to have remem-
bered the saying of the great Irish orator
and patriot, O'Connell, that q good speech
is good thing, but that the verdict is the
thing. He therefore pierced the core of
| every question he discussed and fought to
win in every contest in which he engaged.
He has taken part as a public speaker in
every presidential campaign since he came
into Indiana, except the one that occurred
during his service in the army and he threw
his sword into that. In recognition of bis.
services in that ardent and prolonged strug-.
gle of the Republican party for the rights.
of man and for the restoration and integrity
Of the Union, the Republicans in the legis-
lature of 1881 chose him to be a senator of
the United States. have not time to enter
into any detailed narration of his services
in the senate. His rank was among the
highest. The delegates from Dakota will.
bear witness to the unremitting energy Of
of his efforts to have that territory admitted
as a state into the Union, when, for the:
crime of being faithful to Republican princi.
pies, the Democratic party resolved to keep
it out. Everybody will recall his complete
exposure of the civil service. reform sham III
Indiane under the present admin istration.
He possesses all that you should desire in a
President. S%oundness in Republican doc
trine, a comprehensive grasp of mind, q
calm judgment, firm principles, unquailing
courage and q pure character. There is NO.
need that I should strive to dwarf others in
order that Gen. Benjamin Harrison should
stand conspicuous. He stands breast to,
breast with the foremost of Indiaaa,s
soldiers; distinguished also in civic trusts; !
heroically faithful to public duty; skillful
in marshaling men, to the sound Of whose
bugle they quickly rally and fall into ranks,
whom they have followed in fierce canvasses
more than once to the desperate charges
crowned with victory. -
A MIssOULA FARMER ON TARIFF. I
81
G. A. Bennett, of Missoula County, In q
set-to with the Gazette on the Tariff ques-
ton, has shown ability to present the case
forcibly and clearly. The following is
among the points he makes: I'D
There is rot an average of more than $3.50
per capita per annum paid out for the neces-
saries of life under q high tariff basis than
there would be under q system of free trade.
Now vnr claim that the kiph tariff nrofocta