Huntsville gazette., 1892-06-18

long life and happiness for Rutheric-d
Il. Hayes; and whatever may be tho
outcome of this convention, it will
place upon record its pride in the won
derfully useful and patriotic adAli ais
tration of Benjamin Harrison.
Our democratic friends seem to be re-
markably deficient in presidential tim
Der. 1t is Cleveland or Hill and Moth
ing beyond. Cleveland and reform or
Hill without reform. That peerless
journalist, Henry Watterson, has re-
Gently said that the democratic party
was between the devil and the dark
blue sea. BY which one of these meta
phors he intended to refer to Cleveland
and which one to Hill he does not say,
but he left the democratic voters who
are seeking light and safety in the con-
dition of the colored convert when the
preacher declared that he had hell on
one side and damnation on the other.
Then, he says, dis darky takes to de
woods"
But the republicans are embarrassed
with riches Ohio as the mother of
presidents and the mistress of offices
has upon this platform admirable quail
ifications for the chief magistrate in
Gov. Mckinley. She has a statesman
whose creative mind has formulated
the best legislation of the country and
whose name will live forever as one of
the greatest of American statesmen
John Sherman Iowa has the expert
enced and able Allison, Vermont has
Edmunds, Michigan Alger, Wisconsin
RuslS, Illinois Cullom and Lincoln.
might exhaust your patience before
exhaust the list.
There are two names which at pres
ent belong to no state, but to the coun-
try. One, that singularly gifted states
man, who has contributed so much to
the Improvement of our industrial pos
sibilities and the glory Of American
diplomacy - James @. Blaine. The
other, that level-headed, wise and elo-
ouent soldier, senator and president,
who upon the platform of the people
and in the chair of magistrate has
maintained the best traditions of the
presidential office-Benjamin Harrison.
The republican party is united in its
policy on every part of the union ex-
cept where, here and there, the bugle
NAV give a shriller note, because there
is more silver on the instrument.
The democratic party is hopelessly
divided upon its industrial policy and on
the crucial questions of sound finance
and honest currency. A democratic
voter, anxious TO understand what his
party believes, who reads first Cleve-
land with clear utterances on the one
side and then eight-tenths of his party
leaders with their emphatic declara-
tions on the other, and then studies
Senator Hills mastery balancing on
the financial fence. will be mentally in
the inebriated condition of the alcohol
lied chamois of the Swiss mountains
who Jumps from jag to jag.
1t is eminently fitting and proper that
this great hall, which was built to house
the products of the factory and the
farms of Minnesota, should be dedl-
Gated to the use of a national conve n
ton for the republican party. The re-
publican party has solved the problem
of the harmonious activities and the
mutual prosperity of the farm and the
! factory. 1t represents that industrial
energy and usefully employed capital,
which is SO rapidly developing the re-
sources of our country, with employ
ment and good wages to the laborer
and ever increasing homes to the thrifty
and industrious. There is something
sublime in the significance Of this exhi-
bition of great people governing
themselves 1t can be equaled in
grandeur only by the gathering from
the sea and the land of those who will
respond to the last trump, when the as
sembled universe stands before the
great Judge.
It's deliberations will be watched
with equal interest by friend and foe
They will be carefully studied by the
lovers of liberty all over the world.
May partisanship without passion, in
dividual judgment made deferential to
the views of others, and patriotic effort
for the right so guide and control the
action Of this convention that its nom
inees and principles shall command the
support and receive the appreciation Of
the American people.