Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-07
A PaoErrLess SHOWING.
Harrison Has Done Nothing TO Merit
Popular Communication.

Harrison Has Done Nothing TO Merit
Popular Commendation-
President Harrison has completed
three years OF his administration and
must accept popular judgment as
formed r nm his record It viii be re-
membered that he secured his high
office as the result of a blind and
exuitant sentiment on the tariff ques-
ton 1ngeniously wrought up for the
occasion and inevitably to be followed
by reaction disastrous to republican
interests This reaction set in so soon
as the excitement OF election had SUBJ
sided, but Mr.. Harrison based his poll
cy upon total Misrepresentation of
the true state OF affairs He proceeded
upon the theory that the people had
acted deliberately and upon matured
Judgment as to the issues involved in
the campaign
Garrison was put in charge OF the
civil service policy and promptly DEM
onstrated the insincerity OF the party
platform by cleaning out thirty thou
sand offices the first year. His equa-
nimity and assurance that he was
doing the country's will were not dis
turbed by the Novem Der elections of
1889, when, for the first time in thirty
years, Iowa went democratic He let
civil service keep going wrong without
protest or intervention. The scandal
in the pension Office created public
distrust and the post Office department
did its part in spreading dissatisfaction
The department OF justice was prcsti-
tuted in Dudley's behalf and the I'M
faithful instrumentality has since been
asked by the president TO come I'D
higher. Patronage was manipulated
to benefit the Quay order OF bosses
and su6sidize the party organs Elk
travagance was gwen full play in the
building of big war vessels and be-
stowal Of bounties from the treasury
to private enterprises
In 1890 Blaine began to feel the
foundation of republican supremacy
shaking and applied homeopathic
remedies of the reciprocity order.
Harrison remained in pleasant state
Of imaginary security until the crash
came in the fall. when Massachusetts,,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wis
consin, Nebraska, Kansas and other
republican states avowed 3 demo-
cratic faith through the ballot box
Then the truth dawned upon the presi-
dent and he went about the country
by talking while train waited But
his awakening was too late. Since
then he has passed through the ordeal
of seeing his secretary of state an
nounced as the popular choice for pres
ident. Harrison attempted to win
confidence and arouse enthu siasm in
the Gillian affair. but Blaine made the
hoped for fruit as the apples Of Sodom-
Now the president is producing plenty
of stage thunder while negotiating
with Lord Salisbury in regard to the
seal fisheries, but the sensible public
are not deceived.
Mr.. Harrison will probably be re-
nominated for he holds the whip hand
and runs the machine. but the issue
that was misunderstood in 1855 has
been grasped by the people and
united effort of democracy means q
democratic successor to Mr.. Harrison.
A vast majority will disclaim him for
the principles that he represents, the
things that he has done and the things
that he has left undone. Free
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