Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-04
WEDNESDAY, july 4, 1855.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEvELAND,o of New York
FOR vICE-PREsIDENT-
ALLEN G. THURMAN, of Ohio.
To enforce frugality IN public erpendi-
tures and abolish unnecessary ta1otion.
FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH DISTRICT
REEL Ii. TERRY, of Fresno.

EOh OONUhE0os Ella II O1C nAS
REEL B. TERRY, of Fresno.
There was probably never in the his
tory of a National Convention a more
abortive outcome than the Republican
National ticket. The Republican masses
demanded Blaine. After Blaine they
shouted for John Sherman, man by no
means specially strong in the Atlantic
States and specially weak only in the
Pacific States. As result they got
Harrison, man who is weak both East
and West, North and South, and at all
the intermediate points of the compass.
The only thing that recommended Harri-
son was sentimental consideration that
he was the grandson of his grandfather.
We are not obliged to resort to Demo
cratic sources to find out the essential
weakness of Harrison. The Chicago
Tribune, the leading Republican news
paper of the Northwest, sounded the
note of alarm at the mention of bis
candidacy. The Tribune had no hesita-
tion in saying that advocacy of Harrison
and Gouldism were equivalent terms.
The Chicago Tribune and Mr.. Michael
II. De Young, of the San Francisco
Chronicle, took exactly the same position
as to the grandson of Tippecanoe. The
great Lake City journal said to the Con-
vention that it ought not to choose Har-
rison ''because his record will not enable
4shim to carry any of the Pacific States,
"while his association with some of the
''dubious political characters of the
Southwestern Democratic States and
Territories would damage him as the
campaign advanced in the Eastern
Estates"
1t is somewhat unfortunate for Repub-
lican success that the aristocrat who
heads the ticket of which Morton is the
tail was thus estimated in one of the
quadrilateral of great Western Repub-
ican newspapers, and easily the chief OF
the lot. 1t is further unfortunate that
this candidate starts out, by the emphatic
declarations of the proprietor of the
great Pacific Coast Republican newspa-
per, the San Francisco Chronicle, as a
man who could not possibly carry sin
gle one of the Coast States. Comment
ing upon Gov. Porter's presentation OF
Harrison, the Chicago Tribune most
pertinently remarks:
"The greater portion of Gov. Porter's
speech concerned the ancestry of the ex-
Senator. This was theme on which
the speaker could be eloquent. Gen.
Harrison's grandfather was gallant and
patriotic American. In the councils Of
the nation and at the head of her small
armies he rendered valuable and heroic
services, and the American people re-
warded him for those services by the
highest honor in their gift. The length
at which Gov. Porter dwelt on the ances-
try must have suggested to the audience
that mis- candidate has not fallen heir to
all the fame Of his forefathers and to all
the qualities which rendered them popu-
lar with the American people. His an
cestry undoubtedly gave him great oppor-
funities, but where is the record of his
own great services? They are not refer
red to extensively in his eulogist's speech.
The bill for the admission of Dakota as a
State of the Union is the only measure Of
his Senatorial career which the orator re-
called. He was prudently silent on his
record concerning the anti-C Chinese and
anti-silver legislation, records which the
platform of the Convention condemned
By implication"
The Tribune is really very inconsiderate
fogive point and prominence to Harrison's
weakness as candidate, as it has done
in the foregoing, but it probably believes
that the office of great journal is to
tell the truth and shame the devil.
The Tribune seemed never to tire OF
well-doing during the sessions of the
Convention. In the extract which we
give from its columns below q very
marked reference is made to Harrison's
proc Chinese record, thing which the
HERALD has established heretofore. It
also refers to his anti-labor attitude and
to the hostility of the Germans to this
staxched and invaded aristocrat. Just
- the Harrison stampede began the
Tribune said:
THE New Workers, who planned the
Harrison stampede, were determined to
beat Gresham at all hazards and snuff
out the dreaded Blaine conasgration at
the same time, but were unwilling to &C.
cent Sherman, because of the belief that
be could not begin to carry the Empire
State under any circumstances. Hence
hey asked Ohio and Pennsylvania to
join them and select Harrison as the
mott available man for the anti Gresham