The Forrest City times., 1888-10-06
TRYING TO CRAMFISH.
Fame stricken Harrison stuitiHes His
 Record on the Chinese Question.
isville Couyier-Journai.

Lou,svlie couyer-Journa-
 Nearly month ago the Courier-Journal declared that when Harrison came to speak on the Chinese question he would attempt to ''crawfish'' on his record which he made on that subject white in the Senate, and now clism that he is as ardent an opponent of Mongolian immi- grafton as anybody.
 That we were right a recent speech by the Indianapolis statement demonstrates. He at last opens mouth on this point. and at one gulp swallows his whole pro- Chinese record; We should protect our people" he says, "agaimst competitor with the products of underpaid labor abroad, as well as against the coming to our shores of paupers, laborers under contract and the Chinese"
 Could there be a more complete som ersault2 What do the Republicans think of the caliber of the man they have nom mated. who for the purpose of making a few votes, stultiies himself and repudiates the only principles on which he ever really made public record? Coward is the mildest word by which such a crea ture can be characterized. How does such man expect the American people to preserve the slightest respect for him, when, at the very first fire, instead of bravely sticking to his cOlors. he not only flies from them in a craven panic, but lifts mp his voice and openly disowns them
 Compare the contemptible cowardice | of Harrison with the rugged courage of | Cleveland. who had walk over for re election before he wrote his tariff-refUrm message, and yet who astunished the | country and the world by doing the one thing which his opponents claimed insur- ed his defeat, and dolng it simply because he thought it right. Compare this pu- sillanimous back down of Harrison's with | Clevelands 8 veto of the Pauper Pension 1 bill, which, next 10 his tariff mes age, was as brave an act as was ever perform | ed by any man in politics. Compare it with his stubborn resistence of the ma | chine spoilsmen of his own party in ar rying cut hi, views of civil service re. | form. and his retention in office of such | officials as Pearson and the hundreds of other Republican office holders now scrv- | ing under Democratic administration. There is nothing the American people | admire so much as man; there is noth | ing in manhood they admire more than | honesty and courage These qualities | they have found in Grover Cleveland. whether they may at all times agree with | him or not; but they seem to be the first | qualities which Benjamin Harrison sets out to show that he lacks-and he has undoubtedly showed that most success | fully in his recantation of views on the | Chinese question, which he has made, as no fair-minded man will deny. simply be- cause he has been frightened into the be. | lief that he may lose California unless he | shall turn his coat on the Chinese ques- | tion
 Here is this same Benjamin Harrison's reeord-and his very recent record-on | this matter. He voted for the Hoar amendment to the Chinese Immigration | Bill, providing for the admission of skilled Chinese laborers. See Con gresional Record, March &, 1882, volume | l3, part ?. page ITO
 He voted for the Hoar amendment to admit Chinese mechanics See record, as above
 He lodged the final vote an the bill. 1 See record. as above.
 He voted for Senator Sberman's notion to refer the Chinese Bill and the Presi dent veto to the Committee on Foreign 1 Affairs, to be there buried See record, volume 13, part 3, page 2jl6.
 He voted against the motion to pa
 
 page 2617, as above
 | He voted on the bill to suspend Chinese l immigration for ten years. to strike out the clauses which prohibited the courts | from granting certificates of naturaliza- l tion to the Chinese Sec Congre, ,sional record. volume l3, part f. pp. 3262-3 l He voted to strike out the provisions prohibiting the admission of skilled l Chinese laborers, and the motion to strike out was carried by a majority of one. See page 2264, as above.
 He voted against the motion to recon slider the vote rejecting the above pro- visions in the bill. See pp. 3il0-1l.
 He voted for the Edmunds amendment to prohibit the landing of common Chi. nese laborers and to admit skilled Chinese mechanics See pp. 3ill-12. as above. | He voted against the bill which sus- pended the admission of Chinese for ten years. and which became q law by Presi- dent Arthur's signature. See page 34l2. a, above.
 He abstaincd from voting on the bill 10 more strictly enforce the law of 1882 suspending Chinese immigration. See Record, volume l5, part 6, page 593S, July 3, 1881.