The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-17
UNCH1vALROUs CONDUCT.
j. s. Clarkson Administers a Re-
buke to Some Newspapers.

buke to Some Newspapers.
Mr.. Clarkson, chairman of the Repub-
lican National Executive Committee,
incidently speaking of the vindication
of Russell b. Harrison by Messrs. Con-
nor aud Coils from the foolish charges
in regard to his attempt to secure q
loan of money from the Western Ma.
tional bank, said: 'To my mind the
spectacle of so many American news
papers continually assaulting this
young gentleman is little short of con
temptible. Nearly every paper one
picks up has some allusion, attempted
wit and covered malice, in reference to
him. 1t is neither fair nor manly
Journalism. The place of a Presidents
son is difficult to fill at best. Every
Presidents son has had to bear the
burden of constant comment and
criticism.
"The son of President Harrison has
never let the fact of his father being
| President fix his place in life. He is
working out his own career, indepen-
dent of his father. Instead Of being
an elegant loafer, leading a life of leis-
ure about the White House, he is now,
AS before his fathers election, busily at
work for himself and his own family.
He is in several business enterprises,
originated by himself and depending
on himself. He is u hard worker.
"I know Of few young men who put
in more hours work aday. Indeed, he is
peculiarly individual and independent
and finds pride in depending on his
own exertions His industry and his
willingness to achieve his own career
and care for his own family, and to
ask no odds and no favors for being a
Presidents son, ought to save him from
wit which is malicious and comment
which is cruel. Indeed, | think it is
a fine example that the Presidents
son is showing to other sons in earning
I his own living and being the architect
of his own fortunes.
IF he does show loyalty to his father
and pride in the President" continued
Mr.. Clarkson, $50 much the better
God save us from the day when loving
loyalty of son to father shall not be
the rule and the habit in America.
And | have never been able to under
, stand why the Democratic and Iude-
pendent press has not been willing to
treat President Harrison's family as
fairly as the Republican press treated
President Cleveland's family.
democratic papers did not treat
= Mrs. Cleveland more chiValrOusly than
the Republican papers. Mrs, Harrison
, as a noble wife and dutiful mother
wears double crown where Mrs.
Cleveland so beautifully and grace.
4. H.. u
can people, wore the diadem of a proud
and loving wife.
mo American woman has honored
the home and all that is sweet and
, beautiful in human life and home life
+ more than Mrs. Harrison. She is a
: woman who honors, by every title o.
/, worth and yalty and Intelligence
the name of American womanhoOd
and is, in her own right of persona
worth and personal excellence, worthy
to be a President's wife. Her life is sc
Q quiet and modest, so good hearted anC
3, unaffected as to disarm envy and com
pei admiration. Yet this woman, whC
81 ia so respected in every refined Ameri-
can home, and who fills so quietly anC
> yet so worthily such high place il
American social life, was treated dur
ing her recent visit to New York by
several New York papers in a manner
r and with freedom and thoughtless
J. ness or comment which was neithe
smart, nor justifiable nor excusable, bu
I simply mean, not to say brutal.
Gas newspaper man, proud of my
class, l was ashamed of such conduc
and such unchivalrous and ungeneroul
behavior in leading American news
# papers, and l have wanted to say so u
y somebody in plain terms, and so | say
a it to the 100000 readers of the Pres
a paper always fair, courteous ant
y manly; and, therefore, paper worthy
of the respect of every American wht
r would see every body treated fairly
J. and all good women treated court
d eously. IN. Y Press.