The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-07-05
PRESS OPINIONS.
The Chicago Ticket Under the Eyes Of
the Critics.


The republican presidential ticket is
completed atlast. Here it is
For President,
BENJAMINE BLUE BLOOD.
For Vice.preSident
LEVI PINKERToN DOODLE.
Evansville Courier (Dem.)
The ticket is not the strongest that
could have been made.-ChicagO
Tribune IO,V.tarif (Rep).
The two republican candidates
Messrs. Harrison and Morton, are, like
the democratic candidates, upright
honorable men. That fact is a great
gain to the country. There can be nc
excuse on either side for a mere per
sonal canvass and fortunately the po'
sitions of the two parties on the ques
ton of taxation are so radically oppos
ed that the canvass can be made, and
will be made, we believe, mainly on
this question.
Mr.. Harrison has served term il
the United States Senate. He show
ed himself there, as in the politics oi
his State, u vigilant and keen, and in
deed rather bitter partisan; 8
thorough going high iffprotec tiou
ist /; man of strong will, clear head
ed but somewhat narrow a party
man rather than a statesman. He
represents very accurately the pre-
sent spirit OF his party; its determine
ton to keep the taxes high and spend
the surplus revenues freely; to resist
tariff reform on extreme protectionist
grounds, and to get back into power
if it can. Eeither Allison or Sherman
or Mckinley would have stood for {
more conservative and less adventur
GUS administration Of the government
than Mr.. Harrison. But he is proba
bly, more correct exponent of thu
present spirit and temper Of the re
publican leaders than its older states
men.
Mr.. Morton is too we'll and favorabl,
known TO New Workers to need man!
words from us. He is wealth,
banker, who entered political lif
when he was past fifty, and has mad
a remarkably successful career. H
proved himself an active, useful ant
intelligent Representative in Congres
was prominent enough in the party
councils to be offered the Vice Presi
dency in 1880 and Cabinet place il
1881, and was for some years and eS
cellent and popular Minister to France
Like his chief, he is high protection
lists, and thus in harmony with tn
spirit of his party. If he were electe
he would preside with dignity and ii
telligence over the Senate,-N. !
, Herald.
From the Philadelphia Times,
The nomination OF General BeDji
! min Harrison as the Republican car
3 didate for President is admitted
= highly creditable to the party. He
: not one of the great leaders of RepuI
: licanism, but he is the equal in inte
a lectual power, public experience an
+ creditable record in craftsmanship
a any of the Republican Presidenr sine
e Lincoln, and will be accepted as upo
n o level intellectual plane with Pres
y dent Cleveland, his Democratic con
e petitor. He is a man of more literal
i culture than Cleveland, as he has hs
d an average life time OF active expe
:. ience at the bar, including six yea
y very reputable service in the Senat
8 but he lacks the bold, incisive gra'
n Of public questions that one of M
Cleveland's exceptional courage di
plays. He is the grandson OF soldie
statesman and President; he is
3 soldier-statesman himself and he is
= man against whose character, either
. citizen, soldier or statesman, Il
" tongue of scandal cannot wag II
: :. only just to say that General HarrisC
= is clean, creditable Presidential ca
didate, and his nomination invites Il
= country to turn from the fendi
y jackals Of low-grade politics to sober
: = consider and decide the grave matte
al issues which are to be decided
/! the American people in Novemh
next.
e Is General Harrison a strong ca
. e didate against President Clevelan
y 1 think not, and in that judgement
y reflect the sober convictions of We
j.. large proportion of the delegates CO
: posing the convention. He is speci
" ly weakened in both Indiana and i
nois by the drmaging issue made
. tween Harrison and Gresham. H
III it been merely an issue between t
able Republicad soldiers, it would be
:. little moment which was victor of VI
~ quished, but the issue that divid
Vi and intensified their followers wt
deep into the convictions of the
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