The Indianapolis journal., 1889-09-09
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
Traits and characteristics of General Harrison
His Rise to the Presidency.

At the meeting of the Republican editors
at Warsaw. last week, Hon. NJ. C. CARRIER,
of Madison, in responding to the toast.
THE President" said:
The United States is the home of more
than one-half the Anglo-Saxon race. The
scepter has departed from the original
seats of the race In Germany and Great
Britain and settled within these Western
shores. But there is no further West
Here the seat of empire must abide, and
from this unparalleled country of ours will
go forth those Influences and migratiODs
which will determine the future history of
all mankind. Who can overestimate
then, the dignity, power, and grandeur of
the Office of President of these United
Statesf 1t is virtually the political
primacy of the globe. 1t is not held
by the accident of birth, by
purchase @ of power, but by by reason of the he
virtue of the principles represented in and
the inherent nobleness of the present IN
cumbent Both Darwin and Spencer award
to the American the palm of superiority in
the competition of races. and Benjamin
Harrison, the freely chosen President of
the United States. is clearly an excellent
exemplar of this peerless type of manhood
From whatever point of view you survey
him bis character is fully rounded. sym
that first great essential to fine manhood
he was well born. His ancestry for gen.
erations back was permeated with. the
highest aspirations and perfected with the
not intervene to spoil him. Like Wash
lngton. he had enough in youth to prevent
his nature from being narrowed by
poverty. but not so much as, to
check that grand self-reliance and whole
some ambition which has been his charac-
teristic from early boyhood. In the truest
and fullest sense, he is a self-made man.
He followed the path of so many of the
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way through college. Without adventi-
tious aid he established himself in the pro-
fession of law, and won preferment to hon.
Orable and lucrative office by the suffrage
of the people of Indiana. And when he had
reached this eminence and position of COM
fort he laid it all down to respond to the
call of his country and proved his soldierly
qualities so as to elicit the warmest plaudits
of his comrades and fighting Joe Hooker
In peace. again. he climbed to the summit
of professional honor and a second time,
at the behest of party whose success ho
believed necessary to the welfare of his
country. he fOrsOOk ease and assured sue
cess to lea&i a forlOrn hope in candidacy
for the governorship of Indiana. This con-
test showed, in fresher light, the intrinsic
worth and mettlc of the man. and he was
speedily transferred TO q seat in the most
august legislative body in the world the
Senate of The United States. There he at
once took honorable rank, and shed
luster upon the State he represented.
Handicapped for reelection by most in
famous gerrymander he never faltered OF
despaired, but developed a self-assertion.
magnetism and power in the canvass hith-
erto unsupported, and emerged from the
nominal defeat the true victor, even as
Lincoln triumphed in reality over Douglas.
This man, our fellow citizen. became the
logical and inevitable candidate of the Re-
publican party for the presidency. How
he bore himself, how he met every require
ment. how his reserve power when called
into action astonished the continent
and eclipsed the brilliant efforts of
Garfield and Blaine is familiar history
He was elected, and as representatives Of
the Republican press of Indiana those here
assembled send him greeting in Washing
ton tonight. We honor him, we glory in
the Hoosier State he halls from, we desire
to hold up his hands in the onerous. per-
picking. difficult tasks assigned to him.
Let Us take the highest view of his Office
and mission. 1t is degrading to regard him
as mere dispenser of patronage 1t is
unmanly TO cherish disappointment over
a division of offices. 1t is disloyalty to Re-
publican principle. unpatriotic and shame
ful to lose sight of the transcend
ent Importance of the statesmanship
of America to the world. The nation that
has given to humanity q perfect Constitu-
tion and system of civil government; the