The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-06


GENERAL HARRISON BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
In 1860 General Harrison was nominated
and elected Reporter of the Supreme Court
on the ticket with Henry S. Lane as the
candidate for Governor and Oliver P. Morton
as the candidate for Acknowledgements; and
again in 1864, while absent in the army, he
was renominated and elected Reporter on the
ticket with Oliver p. Morton as the candidate
for Governor.
In 1880 he was avowed candidate for the
United States Senate to succeed Senator
Mcdonald, and on the legislative ticket the
State went over u, 900 Republican majority,
while the State ticket was elected by about
1000 majority. When the Legislature
vened, although other candidates were men
toned, General Harrison was unanimously
nominated by the Republican caucus and
elected to the United States Senate. His
career in the Senate is well known, and it is
subject of common remark that few
took higher stand among his fellow
Senators than General Harrison did
during his term. In 1886 he was the
only candidate for the United States Senate
to succeed himself. The infamous gerry
mander of two years before by a Democratic
Legislature was intended to secure at least 40
majority on joint ballot, and Senator Voorhees,
said that if the Democracy did not have that
majority che should feel personally disgraced."
| Such was the condition of things ting
81 60
Hcans in the State believing that success
| possible in securing Republican majority on
| joint ballot, the State went over 10000 ma
| jority on the legislative ticket, while the
State ticket was elected by but 4, 900 majority.
| But for the bold frauds practiced by the Dem
| ocrats at the polls as well as in the Senate
| Gen. Harrison would have been reelected to
| the United States Senate. AS it was, the
voice of the people was stifed in the election
| of Mr.. Turpie, and the Republicans of Indiana
feel that Gen. Harrison led the party to vic
tory in the face of difficulties never confront
| ed by leader before. These are some of the
reasons why tbegrateful Republicans of Indi-
| ana are for the nomination of Gen. Harrison
! for President.
| Now as to his defeat in 1876. Long before
| the meeting of the State convention in that
| year to nominate candidate for Governor
| and other State officers, General Harrison, in
response to a letter addressed to him. declined
| to be a candidate for the nomination for Gov
ernor, and his letter was at the time pub
| Gshed. Mr.. Ortiz, as true and Repub-
| lican as ever lived was Nominated and after
making a partial canvass of the State, with
drew. and General Harrison, without his
knowledge and while absent from the State,
| was nominated by the central committee to
take his place. General Harrison was urged
to accept by telegram, and on his return
home Republican after Republican urged him
to make the race. Without preparation and
| without time to look after the organization of
| the party, he commenced to storm the fort of
the enemy, which was fortified by the popu-
| larity of Mr.. Hendricks as candidate for the
| vice-presidency and by the money of Mr..
/ Tilden. With unrelenting zeal, but with
| disorganized forces, and the eleventh-hour
/ withdrawal of the Greenback candidate for
| Governor, which gave rise TO a suspicion
/ of bad faith and betrayal in the
minds of the members of that organization,
he pressed onward, defending the act for the
resumption of specie payment, and did mo re
| to educate the people of Indiana IS to the
true financial policy of the county than any
man before or since. Notwithstanding he was
repulsed in the battle, he received over 2OS 900
votes, while the rest of the State ticket
received but 206 900 votes, showing that Gen.
Harrison ran ahead of his ticket 1000 votes.
/ Could any man have done better9 We chal-
lenge comparison of this record for popularity.
| With an unblemis he'd character, the vast ma
| jority of the Republicans of Indiana say,
Nominate General Harrison for the presi-
dency and he will carry Indiana" He has
! beenstried his strength before the people has
| been tested, and the Republicans of the State
want him nominated Indiana has borne the
heat and burden of many a presidential
| campaign, and has more than once saved the
! presidency to the Republican party. The
| State now feels that it is entitled to the nom
ination. and especially since it presents to
| the consideration of the Republicans through
out the country an able. conscientious man,
! whose character is unquestionable, and who
served his country faithfully on the battle
| field, as he has in its highest civil councils.
| Boom the city.
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