The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
Marching to Defeat.

Gen. HARRIsoN's nomination is not in
any sense a strong one. He is lacking in
most of the qualities which combine to
make a great party leader and popular
candidate before the people. He has not
been specially distinguished either in mil
itary or civil life. His service in the I'm
ion army was brief and inconspicuous.
He was one of a multitude of brigadier-
generals who left the field while the conflict
was at its fercest to engage in politics.
His career since the war has made little
impression upon the country. His single
term in the e. S. senate revealed him
only as an intense and bitter partisan, and
a faithful friend of the corporations, to
which latter fact be is indebted for the dis
tinction which has been conferred upon
him at Chicago. He never took a leading
position in the senate and but for the ac-
cident Of his residence in close and I'M
certain state, he would certainly have re-
lapsed into obscurity upon his retirement
from that body.
Here in Indiana, where Gen. HARRISON
IS best known, his unpopularity is pro-
verbal. Indiana is not a republican state
and Gen. HARRISON is not as strong as the
republican party in Indiana. His asso-
Citations and sympathies are all with tn
enemies of the people; with the class of
which GOULD, VANDERBILT, BLAINE and
DEPEw are the leading representatives,
and whose faithful, willing and obsequious
servant Gen. HARRISON has always been.
He is exclusive and aristocratic in his
tastes and habits; proud, cold and austere
in his temperament and if he does not feel
a hearty contempt for those HON Mr.
LINCOLN used to call "the plain people,"
he has been strongly misunderstood all
these years in his own state, among those
who have had the best opportunity to
study and understand his character
We wish TO do entire justice to Gen
HARRISON, and we therefore take pleasure
in saying that his private life is I'M
assailable. He is a clever lawyer and
ready and forcible public speaker. He is
a man of reading and culture, and if not
brilliant on thestump isindustrious, ener-
getic and painstaking. When this is said
about all is said that can truthfully be
spoken of Gen. HARRISON in his public
character.
Gen. HARRIsov cannot carry Indiana
and he cannot be elected He is identified
with the cause of monopoly, and in this
campaign monopoly is going to be defeated.
The platform adopted at Chicago is the
most outspoken, audacious and aggressive
eclaration in favor of monopoly that any
political party in the United States has
ever had the effrontery to put forth. Stand
ing on such platform far stronger can
didate than Gen. HARRISON would be GER
tain of defeat. His personality will cut
little figure in the campaign outside of In
diana Here his name at the head of any
ticket would be enough to insure its re-
lection. In the country at large the issue
which the republican party has raised
sounds its death knell. The people are
tired OF paying war taxes in time of peace.
They are tired of the monstrous abuse of
the taxing power of the government in
the interest of monopoly; they are tired
OF being plucked and plundered by rapaci-
Gus corporations, and by the trusts and
combines which the high protective tariff
has created; they are opposed to the
policy which has enriched a favored few
at the expense of the masses, and they are
pleased with the wise, patriotic and
statesmanlike administration of Mr..
CLEVELAND.
Everything indicates the triumphant
election of CLEVELAND and THURMAN, not
only because the republicans have named
a weak candidate against them, but also,
and mainly, because they represent a
principle and policy which the people
heartily approve.