The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-04
BLAINE AND HARRISON.

hour, and while the matter Will be de
termined in a few days the American
people are so constituted that they can
not, or will not. if they could, patiently
wait upon the creeping hours for the
decision.
As far as the democratic party is con-
cerned it will make but little difference
to it whether Blaine carries off the honor
or whether Harrison captures it. If
Harrison can be beaten Blaine can sure
ly be, for Notwithstanding the bowling
of politicians for Blaine he is really no
stronger than Harrison with the masses
of the people and neither is us strong as
he was four years ago.
1t may be conceded that Harrison has
made a decent sort of president. but the
country is not yearning for more of him.
His administration has not been charac-
terized by any Of those strokes of policy
which commend an administration to
the people. 1t has given us the very
highest tariff known in the history of the
government. 1t did its utmost to pass a
most obnoxious force bill. 1t has legis-
lated silver down to a point never before
reached since the organization of the
government. 1t gave the country a bill
ion dollar congress. 1t bankrupted IA
Sl40.O00,O0O treasury and proved itself to
be the most recklessly eXtravagant adj
ministration known among the nations
of the earth.
Harrison and the republican party
must face all these well-sustained charg-
es before the whole American people.
The verdict is already anticipated
by the declaration OF many obscrvant
republicans that neither Blaine nor Har-
risor can be elected. and by the ill-con-
cealed fears of others that no republican
can be elected. That party must go be
fore the people preaching high protec-
ton, and hostility to silver. Reciprocity
has proven a humbug and republicans
know it. They furthermore know that
Mr.. Harrison has given the people only
the usual, everyday, ordinary, place
hunting, pap-sucking. money-spending.
extravagant republican administration,
with not a bright. redeeming feature in
it.
Mr.. Harrison must also contend
against the constantly growing HOSTILE
ty to a second presidential term. The
people are getting tired of presidents
who will devote four years to the dis
tribution Of patronage to secure Il re-
nomination. They want non of a presi-
dent who shapes all his actions with
reference to a second term. Still Harrl-
son may be renominated but that won't
mean his e-electlon by a large majority.
Blaine is in the same boat with Har-
rison when it comes to a showdown
among the people. He had a chance to
be president but was defeated by the
man whom Harrison afterwards de-
feated. Measured by prize-ring rules
Harrison is the stronger man. Col. Pat.
DOMAIN. a well known North Dakota
republican. IN a recent article in the
Washington Post tells what Blaine will
meet in case he be renominated. lie
says:
"If Blaine is nominated all the hideous
scandals with which Murat Halstead,
Whitelaw Reid and Joe Mcdill made
muck carts of their columns in 1876 will
burst from the political sewers. sinks
and sepulchres and all the appalling
; filth of 1885 will be forked up again to
turn the moral stomach of a hemisphere
[ bottom upwards with disgust. If he is
nominated all the Mulligan letters. the
Dear Fisher letters and the Indian.
, apolis Sentinel letters will pop out OF
their hiding places and cast AN anchor
to %windward.' i do not wish to be q
dead head in any enterprise. and 'hurn
y this letter will once more become catch
words and watchwords of public and
:. private shame. If he is nominated
Puck's awful cartoon of The Tattooed
y Man, will be revived and strewn broad
cast throughout the land. and Conkling's
seven-word epigraminatic masterpiece OF
crystallized scorn and loathing. in reply
o to the committee that urged him to take
:, the stump IN behalf OF the magnetic
son Of Maine: Gentlemen, | am not IL
criminal practice will be emblazoneo
on ID million transparencies. If he is
nominated all the old CHASTITY cavalcad'
+ Of individual, family and part,
skeletons will come trooping from
their closets to prance in pan
r d%enioniacal ghost dances, from Cape Coo
to Corpus Christi, "A hurricane of black
guardism will sweep the continent com
polling all decency to wear a poultice Oh
Z its eyes and a patent nippcr clothespil
on its nose and the world will be retaugh
the loathesome lesson that an American
presidential campaign is simply a quad
d rennial carnival of s~cavengers and ghouls
Blaine was the one man in the republi
(; can party whom Cleveland could hay,
-. beaten eight years ago. lie was The on
man in the republican party who coul'
g. then have been supposed to need aBelsha
Ear banquet guarantee of his official in
tegrity and a thousand preacher powe
," Burchard Endorsement of his persona
n morality. He is the one man in tn
ID republican party whom the sturdy pha
n lanx of Grant, Conkling and Logan stal