St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-27
Scraps Of Sentiment Regard
ing the Chicago Nomi-
nations.
No Great Enthusiasm Mani
tested Over the Con-
vention Work.
The Record Of the PPo-ChineSe
Candidate Is Remem-
bered.
Nor Is the Fact That Morton
Has a Bari For
gotten.

New YORK, June 26-The New York
Commercial Advertiser Qnd. Rep
says of the Chicago convention:
1.-THE platform adopted is astonishing
in its proposals. 1t is, as we have said,
un-Republican and un-American. Its
platform in direct contradiction of the
history, the principles, the teachings,
and the oft-reiterated promises of the
party in whose name a conspiracy of
INSCRIPTIONS politicians has put it
forth. Lincoln would have repudiated
it with disgust and loathing, because it
antagoniZeS individual liberty and the
rights of the people in the interest of a
favored and would-be aristocratic
class. Henry Wilson would never have
assented to it. Salmon p. Chase would
have scorned it. Garfield, Grant, Ar
thur, McCulloch and Folger left words
Oh record which condemns its most vital
parts. and we mistake the character
and temper of intelligent Republicans
of to-day if many thousands Of them do
not condemn it with their ballots, as
their representative newspapers have
through many months condemned its
suggestions in advance.
In another article headed ''What Are
We Going to do About It," the same
paper says: "What are we-the people
of the United StateS-golng to do about
it? We will tell you plainly, gentlemen
menopolists, who desire to tax us for
your enrichment and to make OF your
selves our aristocratic rulers. We are
going to enforce American ideas, which
all great parties in this country have
hitherto respected, and to which only
crankS, anarchists and communists have
ventured to oppose themselves"
nominated at Chicago after such pro-
Ionged agony is not of kind to elicit
much enthusiasm, but is, nevertheless,
a very respectable one, and for this we
return thanks without reserve or stint
to the Republican convention and the
Republican party. 1t is an ideal con-
dition in politics when the public have
reasonable assurance that, whatever
party is successful. the dignity of the
nation will receive no harm from the
character of the occupant of the preSi-
dental office. When it is remembered
how much has been escaped, how mar
r0Wly one great party mas dVolQeu q
candidacy which would have again
made the personal issue the absorbing
one of the campaign, the feeling of
thankfulness is deepened. Mr.. Harrison
is fair representative of his party, not
the best one, not so good as Gresham
would have been. not so commanding a
figure as Sherman, but infinitely better
than Blaine. He has not the personal
qualities that attract the multitude, nor
has he accumulated the renOWn which
belongs to an extended public career;
but on the other hand he has made none
of the antagonisms which are usually in
separable from long period of public
service, and since his record is COM
paratively brief, his opponents will find
few points of attack and his supporters
will have little to defend. In brief, Mr..
Harrison is not stronger than his party.
but he is not weaker than his party. His
nomination leaves the field open for the
freest discussion of the principles which
divide the American people. Mr.. Cleve-
land is stronger than his party, but not
so much stronger that the issues are
likely to be obscured. 1t will be the
merit of the coming campaign that it
will be fought more distinctly on princi-
plies than any other since the first cleo
ton of Gen. Grant, which determined
the reconstruction of the Southern