The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-08
THE OPPOSITION TO HARRISON

Certain unamiable and ignorant CORE
spondents seem to entirely misapprehend
the nature of our opposition to the renom-
ination of President Harrison, and sug-
gest the possibility of the PosT-ISTELLI-
GENoER having "to eat crow" if Harrison
were nominated. There would be no
''crow eating" in that event. The time
for protest against what seems an inex-
pedient nomination is before the conven-
ton has selected the candidate. The
PosT-ISTELLIGENcER has never disguised
its belief that Harrison would be weaker
candidate than Blaine, Sherman, McKin.
ley, Alger, Rusk, Reed. Allison or Cullom,
but it has always said that the judgment
of the doubtful or malcontent states.
like New York, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas,
ought to be consulted and respected on
this point. and if they deemed Mr.. Har-
rison the strongest man at our disposal,
the convention would act wisely in giving
him a denomination. Whether the name
be Blaine, Sherman, Mckinley or Har-
rison, every Republican paper on this
Coast is ready to respect and ratify the de-
cision of the convention. There is no
seating crow" about it, To illustrate the
Portland Oregonicn opposes the nominal
ton of Blaine, urges that of Harrison, but
JvNo t>~fn ~ Al
gonian would support him. not because
it had changed its opinion as
to the unwisdom of refusing to
renominate Harrison, but because the
national convention had named the party
candidate and the time for protest was
over. A party journal must reflect the
public opinion and preference of its COM
munity, so far as it apprehends them.
To describe the denomination of Mr..
Harrison as inexpedient, to prefer the
nomination of some other leader than
Harrison, is to correctly represent the ma
jority of the Republican voters of Wash.
ington. To persist in expressing this
opinion until the convention has decided
upon the candidate involves no prospec-
tive embarrassment for the Posr-INrELLI.
GENcER; no "eating of crow" Mr.. Har.
rison has gwen US one good administration;
if he is nominated and reelected he will
doubtless give us another. Opinions differ
sharply within the party as to whether he
can most surely Of all men at our disposal
lead US to victory. Somebody will be dis
appointed; somebody always is disap-
pointed, but the nomination Of candi-
date that has been squarelv opposed on
the ground of inexpediency involves no
"eating of crow"
The opposition to the denomination of
President Harrison rests upon the conyic-
ton that, other things being nearly equal,
a new man will always be the stronger
candidate. The New York Sun, a Demo-
cratic critic of the present situation, saws
on this point:
new man will be always the stronger candi-
| date. because he can command nearly the
| whole strength of his party; while candidate
| for reelection must have made in the three
years and half before his effort at reelection
at least $4,000 enemies. As the two parties are
| usually about evenly balanced, politicians are
| coming TO understand that the denomination of
| president is a dangerous experiment; aud as
political parties usually prefer success to defeat
| the denomination OF president is not likely to
| be common occurrence. II General Harrison
IS not renominated, II will be an illustration of
the rule; and II he is, the result may be still
more striking illustration