The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-05
MR.. HARRIsON's CANVASS.
A Bold Effort to Secure Tor Himself .
denomination.

a Bold Effort TO Secure Tor Himself .
denomination.
Mr.. HarrisOn's transcontineutal trip
was undertaken for personal reasons.
and while he has not thought proper to
reveal them it has been generally con-
cluded that it in augurates his active
canvass for a second term The trip
must have coat Mr.. Harrison very Sc
riOus physical discomfort, aside from
the mental strain Of making . long
series of speeches without saying any
thing in particular. On the return he
has spoken several times of physical
and mental exhaustion, and it appears
that he shares the general opinion that
there was nothing of the pleasure trip
in it.
The most significant if not the only
significant political development in
connection with it is the uniform kind
ness and courtesy shown him by dem
ocrats and the entire absence of any
manifestation of enthusiasm from re-
publicans. 1t viii hardly be supposed by
anyone that the democrats admire Mr..
Harrison as a politician, or that, excep pit
by great effort, they can feel any
thing like esteem for him as a man. To
the democratic mind he represents
either the actualities or the POSSIBLE
tiles of everything q democrat ought
not to be. He is distinctly product Of
the sectional politics of the civil war
period, and represents this sectional
ism as a survival into a generation
which is gradually broadening out of it.
AS a part of this sectiOnaGsm. he has
manifested strong sympathy with the
sectional effort to force a race issue
and embro1 the negroes with the white
people OF the south. Holding this at
titude to the south, his sympathies in
the politics of the east and west are
distinctly with the plutOcratic classes
While it might be possible to have a
certain sort OF admiration for the con-
sistency of a desperate radical like
Spies or Parsons, preaching anarchy
without regard to section, and stirring
up to violent revolution the ignorant
classes of Chicago and. Mississippi
alike, it is impossible to have any adj
miratiOn of any kind for radical like
Mr.. Harrison, who, as a railroad attOr-
ney in Indianapolis, advocates the pol
icy of shooting down strikers, and then,
on coming to the presidency through
his capita!istic alliances, exhausts his
| energies in an effort to diso-ganize so
ciety in Mississippi, Louisiana and
South Carolina
Though such Inconsistencies in Mr..
| Harrison's character are lseenly felt az
| the south, il was from southern demo
Gratis that he received most kindness
during his tour. They did not pretend
| to love him in making him lat home
among them, but it is hard to see how
| they could have treated him better il
! they had loved him
| In republican states he has been re-
| ceived with decent fornality and moth
| ing more. The speeches he has made
have been politely aPplauded, and wher
sent to the country have fallen fat
His ''Old Flag and Subsidy" address
| at Galveston was a type of one of the
/ two forms of address which in VariOu:
| language and lengths he delivered
along the route The other speech
now heightened, now sharply con
densed, had nothing whatever in it
Except in the Old Flag and Subsidy
| speech, as reported on various Occa
sions, Mr.. Harrison made no references
TO his policy. At Denver a very skilifu
effort was made to draw him out or
silver coinage by presenting him with
| a silver brick, but he lodged with some
| skill.
The tour as a whole has been with
out result except as 1t shows that per
sonal1y Mr.. Harrison has no hold on
the country. II it had enabled him TO
see this, the trouble and exhaustion il
has cost him viii be well repaid, but il
| is almost certain that now holder
grown, for praise mistaICing POther, -
he will insist more than ever on being
Endorsed with a denomination - St
Louis Republic