Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-06-29
THE CHICAGO NOMINATIONS.

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THE CHICAGO NOMINATIONS.
While the nominations in Chicago seem
to have excited no enthusiasm outside OF
the town in which Gen. Harrison lives
in fact seem to have fallen rather fiat on
the country at-large they strike US as
about the strongest that could have been
made out of the names before the conven-
aion, and as likely to bring out the
full strength of the party. The high
personal character Of the head OF the
ticket, and his freedom from all faint of
corruption in his experience Of public life,
promises to give the American people
welcome rest in the matter OF personal
campaigning. The tail of the ticket.
however, does not commend itself so much
to our taste. In politics, Mr.. Morton is
fair representative of the style that pre-
vailed in the latter part of Grants ad-
ADMINISTRATION, and through Hayes's, Gar
fields, and Arthur's-a bartering of pub
lie trust for political power.
Whose support is expected to elect this
ticket.
Those who want the taxation of the
country reduced? Here is candidate
who will neither reduce, revise. nor alter
she tariff of to-day. which is taking
millions out of the pockets of the Ameri-
can people and locking it up in the
Treasury.
Those who want economy? Here is a
man who is pledged to the dependent pen.
sion and all other pension bills on which
to squander the peoples hard earned
money.
Those who want reform in the civil SER
vice? Here is man who is pledged to
20 back to the civil service of Grant and
Hayes and Garfield.
The wage.workers of the country
They will hardly vote for man who in
his place in the Senate voted to admit to
America Chinese laborers, Chinese skilled
labor, and even to make citizens of them.
Those who want equal representation OF
all the States Here is a man who asserts
that the Southern States hold their repre-
sentaJion in congress by a criminal sup
preston of the ballot"
In short here is one of the old time
Republicans, stalwart, strict. sectional and
of the straitest sect. He fits the old
time record in all things but one-the re-
vision and reduction of the tariff. Grant,
Garfield, Arthur, Chase. McCulloch, Fol-
ger, Seward, all leaders, and some of them
founders of the Republican party. all adj
vocated revision and reduction of the
tariff. Every Republican platform up to
1880 promised it, but Gen. Harrison will
have none of it. His text will be a High
tariff, the Protection Of monopolies, the
suffering of wage workers in farm and fac
tory. and the triumph of Trusts.
VIII such ticket be elected. ticket
which oes not carry with it one promise
of the reduction of taxation of the Amer
lean people? We had thought thatit was
excellent policy for the Republicans to take
q candidate from Indiana, but 1t now ap-
pears that the good fortune of the selection
is by no means certain. 1t appears that
Gen. Harrison is not what is generally
accepted as a "people's man" and has
never been successful before the people.
In his own party he was defeated for the
nomination for Governor in 1872, and in
1876 when be had succeeded in getting the
nomination he failed before the people,
being badly beaten by that sterling old
Democrat "Blue-jeans" Williams. His
only success has been before Republican
legislature which elected him Senator.
We see that already two prominent Re
publican papers in Indiana have detected
from him-the Indiana "Post," (German),
of Evansville, and the s'Daily Bulletin
of the same city. The Bulletin is the
organ of the Republicans of the county,
and says of Gen. Harrison, that "the
probabilities are that he will be beaten in
his own State by 10000 votes.'' That
Gen. Harrson's Chinese record will affect
him on the Pacific coast is certain, and il
may do 30 80 far as to lose him the four
teen electoral votes of California, Colora
do and Oregon. Already we see that the
Colorado Springs Gazette" one of the
leading Republican organs of Colorado
denounces the platform as ''an insult to
the intelligence of the voters of the coun
try"
So we may conclude that the Republi-
cans have not gained by going into Indi
ana. But gain oyer 's4 they must, if they
hope for success. Gain could only b.
made by defeated party, by boldly taking
hold of the question of the day-reductior
of taxation. The old issues in which it
platform deals do not bear on what is in
the peoples minds to-day. We trust ever!
Democrat will read the Republican plat
form which we give in supplement to
day, and then ask himself whether will
Harrison of ancient ancestry, Morton of
untold wealth, and platform for Monopo
lists. 1t is not in the Republican part.
to-day the rich mans war but the poo
mans fight.
Our Republican neighbor, the "Valle,
Virginian," is much worried over th
spirited demonstrations of the Young Dem
ocrats of Staunton. We are not surprise,
at it; when the rising generation turn th
cold shoulder to the e. o. P. and rusl
into Democratic clubs it is, as Smith O
Kanawha used to say, ''portentous of
- bad sigp,'