St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-22

platform" were flung at him from ali
sides, but the old man refused to be
budged from his place. II merely want
to make the announcement" said he,
s'that the Republican party of Indiana
have selected member of our delega-
ton, Hon. Albert G. Porter, to present
their candidate for president" Cheers. I
Coy. Porter passed up to the platform
and addressed the convention as fol-
lows:
Then, in 1880, Roscoe Conkling Wis
tied Indiana to take part in the memoir
able campaign of that year, he was
asked on every hand: ''How will New
York go at the presidential election?''
"TeH me-" replied the great orator,
show Indiana will 60 in October, and
then can tell you how New York will
go in November" In October Indiana's
majority Of nearly 1000 for the Repub-
lican candidate for governor informed
the country how she would 60, and in
November New York and the nation
echoed her October voice. Indiana is
no longer an October state, yet now in
1883. as before in 1880, she seems largely
always regarded as being q close state,
but when the Republican party is thor
oughly organized. when it has done the
preliminary work of the canvass we'll,
and when its spirit is kindled to flame,
Indiana seldom fails to elect the Repub
llcan candidates. She has never been
better organized for successful Repub-
llcan contest than now; preliminary
work has never been more complete and
thorough, and the Republican masses
seem never to have been more highly
reused and eager for the struggle. Give
Gen. Benjamin Harrison your commits
cSn 10 yryt1 i'm,
mediately
FALL INTO LINE,
and press forward with enthusiastic
confidence to victory. The convention
that lately met in st. Louis disappointed
the Democracy of Indiana by refusing
to place an Indiana candidate on their
ticket. There is tide in the affairs of
parties as well as of men, which taken
at the flood leads ON to fortune. The
present condition of Indiana is the Re-
publican party's opportunity. Why risk
shipwreck on any shadows when the
full and welcome sea invites your sails?
Benjamin Harrison came to Indiana in
1854, at the age of twenty-One. He came
poor in purse, but rich in resolution.
No one ever heard him make first a ref
erence to his ancestors. Self-rellant he
mounted the back of prosperity without
| the
AID OF A STIRRUP.
The hospitality of his ancestors had
| given their property to those whom they
had served. The core had gone to the
| people, the rind only to them and their
| families. We received. indeed, some
| thing from them-their talents, their
| integrity, their fitness for public trusts,
| and what to some people would have
| seemed misfortune, but to heart so
or I, no iphn fr,-
tune: he received from them the ines
timabie legacy of perjury. Upon his ar
rival in the state he entered at once
upon the practice of law and imme-
diately achieved success. Amplitude
of preparation, a large view OF ques-
| tiOns, mind marvelously prompt in
yielding up it's stores, and so exhaustive
in its power of reasoning that no argu-
ment that would help his cause was
ever found to have been omitted-these
GAVE HIM RANK AT ONCE
| in his profession. In union with these
was found fairness that sought no
mean advantages and an integrity that
never could be shaken. The young
lawyer leaned on nobody's arm for help.
Modest, but self-confident, his manner
seemed to say: 81 am an honest tub,
standing on its own bottom" 1t was
perceived from the start that in web
| and wool he was of heroic stuff. While
| he was engaged in the practice of the
| law and was rapidly rising to distinc-
ton the great Rebellion raised its hand
to strike down the Union. Relinquish-
ing his profession. its emolument, and
the fame to which it was beckonihg
him. he yielded to the imperative de-
mand of duty, raising regiment, and
receiving from Morton the commission
of a colonel.
| HE MARCHED WITH SHERMAN J
to the sea: he was in the thick of the
fight at ReSaca and Atlanta, and his
| gallantry and the efficiency of his we'll
| disciplined command we're so cOnSplcn-
Gus on those fields as to draw from the
| heroic Hooker, in letter to the secre-
tary of war, the highest possible COM
mendation of his industry as discip-
linarian aid skill and intrepidity as a
soldier. He was not unknown to the
people of Indiana before he entered the
army. AT state election they had
| chosen him to the Office of reporter of
opponents took the Office from him
while he was serving as soldier in the
| field. The people, while he was yet in
the field, reelected him. and ON return
ing home on the disarmament of Sher-
mans forces he received his commits
sion. On account of his eloquence as a
speaker and his extraordinary power as a
debater, Gen. Harrison was called upon
at an uncOmmonly early age to take
part in the public discussion of the
mighty question that had begun to agi-
tate the country, and he was early
matched against some of the most emf
| nent speakers of the Democratic party.
| None who ever felt
THE POINT OF HIS ri AIDE
desired to engage with him again. Pos
sessing oratorical powers of high order,
he has lfever spoken for mere rhetori-
cal effect. He seems to have remem-
bered the saying of the great Irish ora
tor and patriot O'Connell, that good
speech is good thing. but that the YER
dict is the thing. He therefore pierced
the core of every question he discussed
and fought to win in every contest in
which he engaged. He has taken part
as public speaker in every presiden-
tial campaign since he came into Indi-
ana, except the one that occurred dur
ing his service in the army and he
threw his sword into that. In recogni-
ton of his services in the ardent and
prolonged struggles of the Republican
party for the right of man and for the
restoration and integrity of the Union.
the Republicans in the legislature OF
1881 chose him to be senator of the
United States. / have not time to enter
into any detailed narrative of his serv-
ices in the senate. His rank was among
the highest. The delegates from Da,
kota will bear witness to the unremit-
ting energy of his efforts to have that
territory
ADMITTED AS A STATE
into the Union when for the crime of
being faithful to Republican principles
the Democratic resolved to keep it out.
Everybody will recall his complete ex-
posure of the civil service reform shown
in Indiana under the present admins
tration. He possesses all that you