The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-18

maze MN Minister TO france as he
made Harrison President. 1t is
customary in national con vention
to nominate the Vice Presi ent
from the losing side, but prece-
dents were disregarded at Minnea-
polls, the more glaringly in that
the nominee for Vice President
was one of those beneficiaries of
Blaine who had betrayed and de-
serted him in the final crisis of his
career. When the work of forcing
Blaine out Of the Cabinet was GO
ing on, Whitelaw Reid was stab.
bing him through the New York
Tribune by declaring that those
who would uphold him against
Harrison were his enemies, and
that Blaine was incapable of SYM
pathizing with them. And this
went on when there was a deadly
stab in every assertion or insinua-
tion that it would be "ingratitude"
or treachery in the hard-pressed
Secretary of State to turn on those
who were betraying him and doing
their utmost to force him to resign,
after it was too late for him to rally
his following. Perhaps Blaine has
no friends left in the Republican
party, but if he has, they would be
less than human if they did not
feel the nomination of Reid as the
crowning insult added to the injury
of the nomination of Harrison by
his office-holders and negroes.
1t is possible to buy off the pol
iticians who have opposed Harri-
son, but Reid brings to the ticket a
host of enemies who cannot be thus
dealt with. For dozen years or
more he has been the most relent-
less foe of organized labor. AS the
special organ Of capital, the New
York Tribune has lost no oppor-
tunity to oppose every movement
of labor for higher wages and bet
ter treatment. His utterances
through the New York Tribme'S
editorial columns have only to be
recalled, as they will be, to create
panic among the Republican pol
iticians. 1t is true that on a trade
with leaders in the Typographical
Union he got at the very last their
written consent to his nomination
for Vice President, but what will
that absurd permit count with the
thousands who have known him
for years as their most unrelent-
ing enemy?
Personally the nominees for both
President and Vice President have
the records and the qualities which
make candidates weakest before
the people. Alike in this, they are
alike in their one strong point
their ability to command money.
The Trusts and the great money
lenders Of the Northeast will con-
tribute more money ror Harrison
than they would for anyone. 1t is
said on the authority of Qnay that
it costs $70OO,O0O to elect Harrison
in 1888. On his record as Presi-
dent and with Reid to help him
Preaching into Wall street," he can
command double that sum now
when the Plutocracy feels that it
can rely on him, and that it has
now an immensely larger stake in
re-electing him than it had before,
The personal unpopularity and
the vuln erable records of both Re
publican candidates are not suf-
ficient ground for Democratic over
confidence. The destinies of the
country and of parties in the coun-
try are at stake in the issue against
Plutocratic control of the Govern
ment, and in the bitter struggle to
come all that money can do to de-
feat the Democratic party will he
done. The campaign will call all
the forces of Democracy into play,
and they will all be needed.