Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12
HARRISON In INDIANA.
a Tower of Strength That Only o
Hoosier Democrat Can Weaken.
WITH THE SOLDIERS. ALSO.
The Real Turning Point in His Life Was
His Going TO the War.
ER. REDS PUGyACITY AND PLUCK
rFRoN A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

who voted for Harrison were firmer in their
belief he would be elected than were his
own State delegates when he was first
nominated Then his plea was that he could
carry Indiana, and would get the soldier
vote. He did carry Indiana, and in spite
of some friction and the multitudinous dis
appointments of neighbors and expectants,
1t is believed that he is strong in that State
now, and that only the selection of another
teyoTite son OF Indiana by the Democrats
can undermine the State pride there in
Harrison, whose two terms would demon
strate that she had an extraordinary san.
Former opponents of Harrison and
Gresham, like Messrs Fairchlld and Allen,
tell me that he can carry the State if it is to
be carried at all
At Nlncennes, uear the bottom of the
Wabash, toward the Ohio, stands the singu-
lar old house built by the United States for
the territorial Governor of Indiana, William
Henry Harrison, in youth, who then ruled
everything west and northwest of the Ohio,
or between Lake Erie and Louisiana In
the yard of that house Tecumseh was
watched lest he and his braves might carry
out their plot to murder young Harrison.
The Principal shrine of the West.
This substantial edifce, now in deserted
place on the river bank is the principal
shrine In all the West, and it was probably
built in Jetferson's administration. 1t
unites the Harrisons with the epic of west
ern settlement, probably the most import
ant chapter in the history of the Anglo
German race. 1t is separated bv half
century from young Ben iamin Harrison's
removal to indianapolis to practice Jaw
with wife on his hands and no kin there.
The turning point in his life was when he
went to the war, and Halstead said to me
yesterday: Everybody who went to the
war deserves all he has ever got out of that
fact and service. We all remember how
many did not want to go to the war under
any inducements, including two Presidential
candidates"
Dick Thomas brought in t'the warrior
statesman of Indiana" as a reflection upon
Blaine who furnished his substitute, like
Cleveland.
81 had BROTHER said Halstead, "who
was somewhere about Harrisons command
and he saws he saw him one day in action,
waving his sword and according, to the best
of his belief swearing in a loud tone of
voice"
Said Joseph Cannon: "There is connec-
ton between Harrison's religious instinct
and Wanamaker's. There is nothing osten-
tatious about Harrison's religious instinct
and Wanamaker's There is nothing osten-
tatious about Harrison's piety. 1 suppose
he takes his whisky with as much regularity
as any well-regulated man who has been in
she army.
Cleveland Met at Every Point.
The two weak points in Harrison's next
campaign might be running for second term
and letting his officeholders attend the con-
vention. But Cleveland is running for the
third time, and if ne is nominated one part
Dt that argument goes by default. Cleve-
lands ofiiceholders now and formerly sup
ported his nomination. Upon this point
Harrison is no mere assailable than Cleve-
land, nor indeed, than Lincoln or Jackson
The issues have been modified by the
present Congress
The business class votes in general to
sell the stock of goods now on the shelves,
and Harrison threatens less disturbance |
there than the advent of Cleveland, with a |
severe tariff change. The Mckinley tariff |
has been assimilated, say many. Much also
Is expected from Harrison's God-fearing-for-
righteous standard This Collector Robin
son and others referred to. They say that
Harrison, with all the churches Catholic
and Protestant, is as strong as one who rules
forever in his great Taskmaster's eve. His
personal character was pretty we'll threshed
over in the last campaign. and what is said |
about his being cold Is interpreted by MANY
10 mean that he never promises what he
does not mean to give. His support
IN this convention, and even upon
the spot, one of the Blaine strong
holds, was quite equal to Blaines
The people in the galleries were able to re-
spond well in volume to the Blaine shouts
and applause, all the time the quality of
Harrison's support throughout the States,
including the strong Blaine States, like |
Wisconsin, Kansas and Nebraska In spite |
OF ClarksOu, he seized Iowa almost bodily.
In Blaine's native State the Harrison sup
port was numerous and highly respectable. |
He had the benefit of the coherence which |
conserves and builds up character and |
States. While MANY Blaine supporters |
were on Harrison's side from want of faith |
IN Blalnes new managers, there were |
others, like Cogsweli, of Massachusetts,, |
who had been for years shouting for Blaine |
and had lost their confidence by personal |
sontact with Mr.. Blaine
Compulsory Respect for Harrison.
This was the man who reported from the
Committee on Credentials, and was promi-
nent to renominate Harrison. He met Har-
olson out in the Western campaigns, where
they were both fighting, and met Blaine
alter Cogswell came to Congress, his enthu-
Eiastic champion. Mr.. Blaine could not do
what be tried to do, and the result was the
fierce hostility OF friendship turned to
anger
A New Yorker in the confidence of Mr..
Platt's family said: "His movement to beat
Harrison began last August when Platt was
Bt the Oriental Hotel, Coney Island He re-
ceived dispatch from Quay, saving:
Wherever YOU will lead 1 will follow The
two men then resolved to fight Harrison,
but Quay had not the courage to do it alone,
and Plat has"
Mr.. Plat remarked, this informant said
to me tonight: "The nomination gives me
this relief, that need not feel any respon-
ability about the result and can attend to
my private business"
''Alrs. Platt," said the same informant,
remarked to him one day before me: Tom,
/ hope YOU will be beat 'Why?' he
asked Because then you will let politics
alone, which takes three-quarters of your
time and one-half your money!
The weakness of Harrison is probably not
In New York, but in Colorado, where per-
tlaaclty to beat him may terminate the
career Of Teller and Wolcott, for partv
swallows the individuals who
stand IN its way. Mr.. Teller was reported
to have desired to nominate the eccentric
Elliott Shepard, of New York. for Vice
President. and Wolcott remarked that he
was bound to get him eight votes right
away. More asonable second thought
this satire.
The Calltornlans went home in fairly
good frame of mind. Most of the Demo.
crats especially from the East, held that
Harrison would draw more votes and be O.
safer candidate than Blaine But there
we're thousands OF good, cordial people, who
vote but are never delegates, who went
from the convention disappointed. and one
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