Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-13
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What Leading Papers in Their Own States
Have to Say of Thcm-Gen. Harrison as
Good a Man as Either of His Grand
fathers-Morton Self Made Man.
Gen. Harrison has been Republican
all his adult life, having cast his first
vote for John G. Fremont in 1856. In q
speech delivered at Chicago last spring,
he said: "My first presidential vote was
given for the first presidential candidate
of the Republican party, and have sup
ported with enthusiasm every successor
to Fremont. including that matchless
statesman who claimed our suffrage in
1884" Gen. Harrison began his political
life by being Il Republican from conyic-
ton, and he has been that kind of a Re-
publican ever since. The earnestness and
sincerity of his nature would prevent him
from espousing or advocating political
cause which his conscience did not fully
approve. In speech delivered last year,
during a time of political excitement, he
said:
81 am one of those who believe that to
fight without cause is not noble thing;
that fighting and conquest become noble
as they are done in behalf of cause that
kindles the high impulses of the human
heart and demands the allegiance Of the
enlightened conscience. | believe the
Republican party in Indiana and in the
nation stand today for such issues. No
man was the architect of the Republican
party. You may call the roll Of those
who sat in the first convention and de-
fined it's principles, but beg you to re-
| member that every one of them was
delegate. and beg you further to remem-
os,,I, af bj oh,
were announced in our first platform were
| written in the hearts of the people before
they were written in the platform.
| These expressions are characteristic of
| the man. He Is as conscientious In his
| political convictions as he Is in his reigi-
GUS convictions. Being that kind of q
man he has never faltered in his devotion
to the principles Of the party, nor failed
to give his best efforts for its success.
Being q Republican from principle he
could not do otherwise without doing vio-
lence to his nature. He has never tried
| to push himself to the front, but has often
been brought there by The call of the
party or the necessities Of the situation.
He has never been an Office seeker.
Offices and honors have sought him
rather. His present position is not Of his
] seeking. Although frequently mentioned
| during the last few years as presidential
possibility he has never had the bee in his
bonnet enough to disturb in the slightest
degree the even tenor of his way. His
present candidacy is the result of the
efforts of his friends and the spontaneous
movement of the Republican party.
4 Having always been a Republican and
always In close accord with the principles
of the party, there Is nothing in Gen.
/ por,-ioaJ, "a ranorJ TINT rapuirau oyr,1oin
| ing, defending or patching up. On all
| the issues which have formed the div1d-
| ing lines between political parties for the
| last thirty years he has been an out
l spoken advocate OF advanced Republican,
ism. He represents the military as well
as the civil side Of the Republican record.
bis military record is Of the best, as
those who served with or under him
can testify. Fighting Joe Hooker, in
/ recommending him for promotion to
the rank of br;gadier general for gal.
lantry on the field and for distinguished
services in the campaign before Atlanta
said: "Col. Harrison is an officer of superb
or abilities and of great professional anc
personal worth" His whole military
record sustains this estimate. In all tn,
great issues of the reconstruction period
GEN. Harrison occupied bold and advanced
ground In favor Of the supremacy of tn.
Constitution and in advocacy of the policy
Of securing the results Of the war BY up
propriate legislation. Although not Il
public life at this time, his eloquent voic,
, was frequently heard on the stump in sup
port of Republican measures and policy
and he contributed his full share towart
: creating and molding the active Republi
: can sentiment of that period.
Gen. Harrison is unequivocally in favo
Of protection to American industry. TIL
= Hon. James G. Blaine, In his dispatch t
8 Gen. Harrison congratulating him on hi
4 nomination, said: e'Your election will sea
D our industrial independence, as the decla1
alton of '76, which bears the honored nam
] Of your grandfather, sealed our poitica
I Independence. Mr.. Blaine is not mis-
taken In regarding Gen. Harrison as pre-
, | eminently sound on the tariff question
. On this paramount issue of the hour he |
, in full accord with the overwhelming ser
i timent of the Republican party, and wit
! the ringing declaration Of the Chicag
I platform. He is on record as saying tina
, ''the Republican party Is pledged, an
4 ought to be pledged, to the doctrine 9
the protection of American industries an
q American labor" Again, he has declare
that Gin SO far ss our native inver
tive genius and our productive force
can supply the American market W
:, ought to keep it for ourselves" Agair
] he says, II believe the principle G
the protection of American industry
well established and well defende
!, by the principles Of political econom
and by the duties Of patriotism.
And again: ''Our workingmen will wax
q up TO the fact that reduction in the
q wages. which every candid advocai
of free trade admits must come with ii
adoption of his theories reduction var
h ously estimated at from 10 tc 25 per cen
Y lis poorly compensated by the cheap,
10 coat he is promised" These expression
d are taken Mt random from speeches |
y Gen. Harrison, and might be indefinite
,e multiplied. They show that his positit
e. on the vital question of the day, al
> which will exercise great and perhal
so controlling influence in the coming cal
paign and election, is pre- -eminently soun
The declaration of the Chicago platfor
ia that "We are uncompromisingl in fav
ar OF the American system of protection" !"
R. a complete epitome of Gen. Harrison
record on the tariff question.
A Comparison for Veterans.
1t Is the American system of protect
against Mr.. Cleveland's British free trad
It is Union soldier against the man
- whom Gen. Sherman says:
Cleveland Is seventeen years young
than |. He should have shouldered
musket and gone to the front. Eve,
body capable of carrying gun shot
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