Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-03
wArrKRsoN FOR PRESIDENT.

The New York Herald in recent issue gives the following in regard to who should be the democratic nominee for President:
 If it be the foremost, the brsvest, the wisest and the best followed citizen of his State is entitled to the confidence of Q national party, Henry Watterson richly deserves the favorable consideration ofthe Demo cratic Convention when it shall meet in June. No State of the Union has had q citizen whose counsel has been so invariably valuable to 1t during many years as Kentucky has had in him. It is not of his mere party political services we here speak, though he is the most saga cious of politicians, but of the work he has done for the welfare and en- lightenment of his people in other, and, outside of the State, perhaps less noticed ways.
 With the courage and humanity which have always characterized him, it was on MT. Watterson's per sistent demand, in the face of bitter hostility and unpopularity, soon after the war, that the authorities oi Louisville were compelled to repeal a law which forbade colored people to use the street cars. His contest for the equal rights of all men based on broad and generous senti- ments of humanity and Christianity has been in this and many other ways const ant, and honorable to his head and heart alike. For just and generous treatment of the col ored people, for schools, hospitals and all the enlightening and hu mane devices of civilization he has conspicuously spoken and labored He is the truest of democrats-from the heart-and his State owes hin so many benefits, the community | in which he lives, trusted and ad mired, is so greatly his debtor fol wise and brave leadership that Ken lucky will some day honor herself by erecting a monument to hin who richly deserves the title of bel foremost citizen.
 "Nor are these the only titles tC consideration he has won. Nor, than the lamented Grady, Henry Watterson has, during many years brought and held together the bes, parts of the North and South il friendly confidence and good will Not only in his journal, but by his great personal and social influence he has created and increased good will between the sections. 1t is not extravagant to say that he is widely known and as we'll liked in the North as in the South, in the East as in the West. His influence fol good grows out of the humane anC generous spirit which has informed and guided his utterances. The highest type of a journalist must b, truly a statesman, and MT. Waiter son has brought the ablest states manship of the day to his labors il his newspaper and among his asso ciates in public life.
 "The nomination of MT. Waiter son for President would, we believe be more generally acceptable to hii party all over the country than tha' of almost any other man who cal be named, for he has lived above the petty wrangles and jealousies O factions and has the reward of { peacemaker, the respect and conf dence of all sides. His election tt the Presidency would cause les heart burning among republican, than that of any other democrat, fo his political opponents have alway, found him lover of fair play just and generous, though a positive man.