The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-29
r AND MORTON.

The Convention has done we'll: The
ticket is one to win. If with 1t the Republi-
can party, cannot carry the two doubtful
States Of New York and Indiana, it could not
with any other. It is clean, capable and
honest. 1t commands respect everywhere.
1t will waken New York and Indiana Re-
publicans to their best work. With the
magnificent platform on which they 60 be-
fore the people, defeat is impossible. Many
of us had other choice. The Convention
knew best. 1t was the representative wis
dom and energy of the Republicans Of the
Republic. To their conclusions all should
give hearty assent, and already it is apparent
their conclusions were right. Blaine was
the choice of many, but be could not permit
the use of his name under existing circum'
stances. His supporters went to Harrison,
California leading the van, and dissipating
by that act the pretense Of opposition to
Harrison they had used to secure Blaine's
was mostly from the South, whence there
will come no Republican electoral votes.
Gresham would have to contend against the
cry of Know Nottingham, and the bad i'm
preston made by I~ngersoll's speech. Alger
was not widely enough known. Allison
came from q sure Republican State under
any circumstances, and there were doubtful
ones to be brought into line. The name of
uo~r;,or onnaoloS ~ oil An hnroaf ohlo
patriotic statesman, with a noble American
lineage and q character worthy Of 1t, hailing
from a great State where the battle is fought
to the hilt, he came before the: Convention
as Lincoln did, just defeated for the Senate
by a Democrat, solidly supported by its Re-
publican electors and by the bulk of the
New York delegates after Depew retired.
Of all the candidates, these presented them
selves the strongest reasons for his selection,
and the strongest assurance Of his election.
Before them all other candidates were
dwarfed, and with absolute unanimity the
standard was placed in his hands. The Con-
vention assembled under solemn obligations
to place in the field q ticket that could win,
and they have accomplished the purpose.
New York is essentially the great pivotal
State. It supported Harrison, but more than
that must lie done. In the nomination of .
President from the West, the Vice President
would inevitably come from New York, New
Jersey or Connecticut, and the imperial
State had first consideration. On either
Warner Miller or Levi P. Morton the honor
would fall, and Miller did a grand thing when
he nominated his old rival, Morton, with the
assurance That bis selection would bury all
factional feeling among New York Republic
cans and present a solid front to the foe.
Like Harrison, he is q self-made man, having
worked his way from poverty to afluence,
held the most arduous and responsible posi-
lions under the Government, and never yet
has even political enmity tarnished his name
publicly or privately. He has the fullest
confidence and esteem of New York, and if
anything were needed to assure success in
that State, no better nomination could have
been made.
Greater consideration than even the can
didates, however, is the declaration of prin-
ciples upon which the Republican party goes
before the country. It is published in this
issue. 1t has never been surpassed since
this Government was established in its fdel-
ity to American interests and American peo-
pie against the insidious and aggressive en-
croachments of European ideas, free trade,
and ruin to our industries and wage workers.
1t has never been approached in the acknowl-
edgement and declaration of the rights of the
people of the Territories, and is assurance
that in the event of Republican success those
rights will be respected. 1t declares for .
bi-metalic currency which the Democrats, in
their fear of New York, dare not do; it de-
clares for Home Rule in the Territories, which
Cleveland has persistently ignored it rec
ognizes the right of Montana to statehood,
which has been juggled with for four years,
and it declares against the prosecutions that
would stop every mine in Montana. It has
made our fight that of the Republican party
of the Nation, and it has dared 10 do it in
the face Of Eastern hostility, because we are
right, while the Democratic Convention, in
fear Of its effect East, persistently and arbi-
trarily squelched every man who dared to ask
a 1.-THE of these things at its hand. As the
principles of the Republican party are just
to US, so are they to all. 1t asks net that
they be popular; only that they be right.
We can iadge this by its treatment of our
selves. Without an electoral vote to count !;
without a vote in Congress to count, helpless
and dependent, and asking that which is not
popular where the great potencies of the con.
test exist, the Republican party in Conven.
ton assembled has reached out its hand over
the Territories and said: "These have their
rights and we will stand or fall in their main
tenance." Do we not owe it gratitude?:
What do we owe to the Democratic Conven-
ton? And as our case in those things that
Immediately present themselves to us and
bear npon our welfare, it has been our cham
pion and defender; so has it been in all
things pertaining to the public welfare, even
in its challenge to the giant Of Industrial
Ruin that threatens through the Tariff policy
Of the Democratic party. And as these mat
tiers, as relates to the Territories, appeal to
us, so will the attitude on that momentous
question appeal to those whose wages or
whose capital is threatened by the Demo-
cratic policy, and then will answer to it in
November "You have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting" There can be
no other answer. Harrison and Morton, and
Republicanism, will be triumphant.
WARNER MlLLER,S NOMINATION OF
MORTON.