Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-06-26
FOR PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
OF INDIANA
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
LEVI p. MORTON.
OF NEW YORK.
Tuesday. June 26, lSss.
THE NOMINATIONS.

Inc hepuDllcRn NATIONAL convention nn1SA-
ed its work last evening, and has given the
party a ticket and platform which are not
only acceptable, but are such that rybody
who has been or is a Republican has reason
TO be satisfied. With such nominees those
who have not hitherto acted with the party
can feel assured that they are acting for the
real interests of the country In voting for
them.
Benjamin Harrison, the nominee for Press
ident, has distinguished and historic lin
cage, his greatgrandfather Of the same Chris
tian name as himself being signer of the
Declaration of Independence, four times
elected member of Congress, and at the
time of his death was member of the Vir-
ginia legislature.
The grandfather of the present nominee
was William Henry Harrison, the ninth
President of the United States, who was born
in Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia.
Many men of this day recollect the enthusi-
asm that followed General Harrison's nomi-
nation by the Whig party at Harrisburg,
Pa, in December, 1889. The eanvass that
followed has often been called the ''log cabin
and hard cider campaign" He was inaugu-
rated March 4, 1s41, and on April follow
ing he died. The father of Benjamin was
John Scott Harrison, who received liberal
education and was elected to Congress as a
Wing, serving from December 5, 1858, till
March 8, 1857.
Benjamin was born in North Bend, Ohio.
August 30, 1888, was graduated at Miami
university, Ohio, in 1852, studied law in
Cincinnati, and in 1854 removed to Indisnap-
oils, Ind, where he has since resided. He
was elected reporter Of the State Supreme
court in 1860, and in 1862 entered the army
as a second lieutenant of volunteers. After
q short service he organized a company for
the Seventieth Indiana regiment, was com-
missioned colonel on the completion of the
regiment and served through the war, receiv-
ing the brevet of brigadier general of volun-
teers on January %, 1866. He then returned
to Indianapolis and resumed his Office of Su-
preme court reporter, to which he had been
re- elected during his absence in 1854. In
1876 he was the Republican candidate for
governor of Indiana, but was defeated by a
small plurality. President Hayes appointed
him on the Mississippi river commission in
1878, and in 1880 he was elected United
States senator, taking his seat on March 4,
1881, his term of Office expiring on March 8,
1887. Since this time General Harrison has
devoted himself to the practice of his profess
sion at Indianapolis, being honered and re-
spected by all classes of the community.
Levi Parsons Morton, the nominee for Vice
President, was born In Shoreham, Vt, May
16, 1924. He became clerk in a country
store, soon developed aptitude for business
and rose rapidly. In 1850 he was made a
member of the firm of Bsebe, Morton & Co,
merchants of Boston, and in 1854 removed to
New York where he established the irm of
Morton & Grinnell. In 1868 he founded the
banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co. in New
York and that of Morton Rose & Go. in Lon
| don. The latter were the fiscal agents of the
United States government from 1873 till
| 1884. The firms of which Mr.. Morton was
| the head were active in the syndicates that
negotiated the United States bonds in the
payment of the Geneva award and the Hall
fax fishery award. Mr. Morton was appointed
honorary commissioner to the Paris exposi-
tion in 1915, and in the Same year was elected
| to Congress as Republican and was re-elect-
ed in $780, In the latter year he declined
the nomination for Vice President on the Re
publican ticket. President Garfield offered
to nominate Mr.. Morton for Secretary Of the
Navy or minister to France. He chose the
latter post and filled it from 1881 to 1886.
He was American commissioner general to
the Paris electrical exposition, the representa-
tive of the United States at the submarine
cable convention, and publicly received in
the name of the people of the United States
the Bartholdi statue of liberty enlightening
| the world. The degree of IL. d. was con-
ferred upon him by Dartmouth In 1881 and
| by Middiebury in 1882.
| But it is not chiefly question of men.
The Republican party had many men worthy
of the high honor of being called upon to
lead it in this important campaign. OF the
| many names brought before the convention
| any of them would have been suitable and
| would have compared fayorably with the
| "new Roman" or the "old Roman" who were
nominated at st. Louis. The most important
difference in the two tickets ID in what they
represent. The Democrats in their conven-
| tion did their best to conceal themselves and
to delude the voters into thinking that "a
| tariff for revenue onlyn Is consistent with the
best interestsof business and labor in this
country. Their attempt was failure, as OF
course it would be. The Republican convsn-
tion attempted no "stIsddle" in this vital
matter. It did not need to. 1t has long
and honorable record of hearty and success
full efforts for the real interests of the busi-
ness man and the laborer. To-day it stands,
as 1t has SO long stood, uncompromisingly in
favor of the American system of protection.
And it protests against its destruction as pro-
posed by President Cleveland and his party.
/ For this reason alone it deserves the hearty
support of the voters of the country. And If
| this tissue" becomes fully understood as the
| campaign progresses the Republican party
| will have triumphant and abundant en-
trance into power and responsibility. Then,
too, its attitude toward the other great ques-
tions that will enter into the contest is such
as to deserve respect and confidence.
The convention has done It's work faithful
ly, conscientiously and well, and the party
can enter into the campaign with hearty hope
| and unhampered effort. It is a long step to-
ward success to deserve it.
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