Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-10
RENNY'S POPULARITY.
The Doctor Repudiated by the Coloret
Voters of the South.

Voters of the South.
That was curious and significant &C
cident which befel the Admins tration
in the capital of Tennessee
BENJAMIN Harrison has been Presi-
dent of the United States for a little
more than sixteen months. Though
elected as an avowed advocate of civil
service reform, on a platform sensation
ally aggressive in favor of the extern
sion of the principles of that reform to
all grades of the public service, he has
made a record never before equaled in
in the displacement of office-holders
opposed to him in politics, and the ap-
pointment of party workers of his own
political faith to succeed them. This
ought to have endeared him TO that ele-
ment of his party, which is numerically
much the larger part of it, which looks
upon politics as a means of getting
something for ones self Somehow,
this result has not been achieved.
Humiliating as the confession may be,
it is certain that DR.. Harrison is not a
| popular man, even in the ranks of his
own party. He has not voluntarily for
| feited the respect of the rank and file
| of the g. o. p. He has, in truth. striven
| hard to give satisfaction. Though a
man that has been largely advertised as
possessing piety Of the most unrelent-
| ing variety, he has not prescribed the
unregenerate who aided in his election.
! In his official family sits a man whose
presence there is due to his success in
raising corruption funds. His most
trusted and influential adviser, outside
a 10 iS VIII N
deny the charge of having distracted
| $500, 900 from State Treasury. Some
of his appointees have been convicted
of felonies, and great many others
ought to have been. These facts indi-
| cate that the President has been anx-
ious to show that he is not too proud or
too good to recognize the services of any
element of his party. And yet they do
not love him.
1t is significant, too, that the colored
element of the Nashville convention
was conspicuous in the opposition to
| the resolution to indorse the administra-
| ton. The colored voters in the South
did not contribute much to Mr.. Har-
rison's election. but those of the North
! held the balance of power in several
| States, and it was their votes that made
his success possible. On the basis of
the white vote, Mr.. Harrison was
| beaten badly. His presence in the
| White House is due to the prejudice
which compels colored men to vote the
| Republican ticket, contrary to their
own interests and the good of the coun-
| try. And yet one of these Republicans
| testified that there is all over the
! South, under the reign of DIR. Har-
rison, an effort to slap the negro in the
| face.
The Democratic party is not particu-
| larly interested in the unpopularity of
| the President. His denomination would
not be an overwhelming misfortune for
the Democratic candidate in 1892 If
we may Judge of his whole term by that
part of it already past, we could go to
| the country upon the record thus pre-
| scented with the most sanguine hopes OF
success. But unless he does some thing
to strengthen his hold upon the dis
satisfied element of his party his re-
nomination seems hardly among the
| possibilities. The Nashville incident
is certainly ominous. Heretofore the
| Federal office-holders have generally
been omnipotent in Republican councils
in the South, but all their influence at
| the Nashville meeting was exerted in
vain. There are many indications that
| the sentiments expressed there are
shared by Republicans in every sec
ton of the country.-Louisville Courier.
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