The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-06-29

The Republican Ticket.


pense the Republicans at Chicago on Mon
day settled upon ticket, by nominating for
President Gen. Benjamin II. Harrison, of In
diana, and for Vice President, Hon. Levi p.
Morton, of New York. The delay in effect
ing nomination is charged upon the unfair
tactics of Mr.. Blaine's adherents. The Man
from Maine it was evident from the start,
was the choice of four-fifths of the delegates,
but the leaders feared to force him upon the
convention in the face of his letters declining
to be candidate, lest they should embtter
the numerous aspirants who entered the con-
test relying upon Mr.. Blaine's assurances
that he was out of the field. Accordingly
very sharp political game was practiced.-
Efforts were made to kill off one candidate
after another so that in the end the conyen-
ton would have TO force the nomination,
apparently, upon Mr.. Blaine. One thing
after another conspired to defeat this project,
and on Monday dispatches were read from
Mr.. Blaine begging his friends not to vote
for him.
The convention was then like a ship at sea
without a ruddcr, and no one could tell
whittier it would drift. On the first ballot
on Monday, the California delegation, not
withstandng Mr.. Blaine's dispatches, cast
their 1G votes for Blaine, who received "a
scattering votes besides. On the next ballot
Caliiornias 1G votes went to Harrison, but
no nomination was made. Another ballot,
the eighth, was ordered, when Allison's name
was withdrawn and it was understood that
his vote would go to Harrison This turned
the tide and the vote was taken, resulting as
follows: Blaine s. Gresham, 50; Sherman,
1lS; Alger, 100; Harrison, 544; Mckinley, A.
The announcement of Harrson's nomina-
ton was greeted with applause, but as the
delegates had been shouting themselves
hoarse for week, the applause soon subsi-
ded.
The nomination of Gen. Harrison was a
surprise to the convention and ELECTED no
enthusiasm. A Gresham delegate remarked:
did you ever see anything fall so flat as
Ilarrison's nomination? have seen more
excitement at the funeral of Chinaman"
Another Chicagoan standing by said:
"rhe Republican party will not elect their
President this time, I say this as an uncom-
promising Republican"
At the evening session Hon, Levi p. Nor
ton, of New York, was nominated for Vice
President.
Gen. Harrison is IS years old. lie isa grand
son of Gen. VIM. II. Harrison, ninth Presi-
dent of the United States. He is q lawyer
by profession and has always been Repub-
lican. He raised company at the beginning
of the war, and at its close was brigadier
general in the Federal army. In 1876 he
was the Republican candidate for Governor
of Indiana, but was defeated. In 1880 he
was elected to the United States Senate and
served for six years, but was defeated for re-
election in 1886.
Personally he is described as a respectable
man, with cold, uninviting, aristocratic man
ners, priding himself upon his ancestry. In
his younger days he was q Know Nothing,
and this fact will not commend him to our
Irish and German citizens; nor will they re-
spect and admire him any more for voting,
in the United States Senate, to place the
Chinese upon the same plane, as voters,
with our Irish and German citizens His
vote on the Chinese bill will probably insure
California for Cleveland. Gen. Harrison ia
believer in machine politics, and when in
the Senate openly defended the system of DO
litical assessments on government employees.
lie is in all respects the representative of
Blaineism, with all that that implies, but
without Baine's power of winning friends by
his personal magnetism.
Hon. Levi p Morton, of New York, the
Republican candidate for Vice President, is
GA years old and is a banker, being many
times millionaire. He was elected to Con-
gress in 1873 and again in 1880. He was
doubtless chosen with the hope that he would
open his barrel and thereby carry New
York.
Mr.. A. X. Mcclure, editor of the Philadel.
phia Times, independently who was in Chi
cago when the nominations were made, gives
it as his deliberate opinion that Harrison is
not strong candidate against Cleveland
He says:
Harrison was the candidate of the old
and much distrusted machinery of the party
Gresham was the candidate of the unorgan-
lied but earnest Republican people, and the
vindictive hostility of all the old line candi- |
dates to Gresham and his preordained defeat,
have left wounds which are much deeper
than the scars OF individual conflict. II n
There is little assurance of victory for the
Republican candidate. Around his neck will
hang the platform distinctly approving war
and monopoly taxes and the continuance of
millions of yearly surplus extorted from our
industries, and what party can thus face the
embarrassed business and overtaxed labor of
the country and win at the POLISH