The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-10
coRNER BROAD AND EDDY STREETS

egy. IL detracts nothing from the
splendor or the merits OF the deeds of his
lieutenants, to say that having selected
them with marvellous sagacity and dis
cretion, Grant still remained the supreme
commander Of the national army.
All the proposed acts OF any Admins
tration before they are formulated are
passed upon In Cabinet council, and the
m easures and suggestions OF the ablest
Secretaries would have failed wit h a
lesser President. But for the great good
of the country and the benefit of the Re-
publican party. they have succeeded be-
cause OF the suggestive mind, the indom-
liable courage, the intelligent apprecia.
tion of situations, and the
Grand Magnanimity Of Benjamin Harrison
1t is an undisputed fact that during the
few months when both these Secretary
OF State and the Secretary of the Treas
ury were Ill, the President personally as
ment and OF the Treasury Department
and both with equal success.
The Secretary Of State, In accepting HE
portfolio under President Garfield,
wrote: "Your administration must be
made brilliantly successful and strong in
tho confidence and pride of the people,
not at all diverting its energies for re-
election and yet compelling that result
by the logic of events and by the impe-
rious necessities of the situation"
Garfield fell before the bullet of the
assassin and Mr.. Blaine retired to private
life. General Harrison invited him to
take up that unfinished diplomatic
career, where its threads had been so
tragically broken. He entered the
Cabinet. He has resumed his work and
has won higher place In our history.
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been superbly fulfilled by President
Harrison. In the language of Mr.. Blaine,
the President has compelled re- election
by the logic OF events and the imperious
necessities OF the situation"
Must Carry the Doubtful States.
The man who Is nominated here today, to
win must carry a certain well known
number of the doubtful States. Patrick
Henry, in the convention which starte,
rolling the the ball o. the independence
of the colonies from Great Britain, said :
81 have but one lamp by which my feet
are guided, and that is the lamp of ex-
pcrience. know of no way of judging
OF the future but of the past"
New York was carried in 1880 by Gen.
eral Garfield and in every Important elec-
tion since that time we have done our
best. We have put forward our ablest,
cur most popular, our most brilliant
leaders, for Governor and State officers,
to suffer constant defeat. The only light
which illumines with the sun of hope the
dark record OF those twelve years, is the
fact that ia 1888 the State OF New York
was triumphantly carried by President
Harrison.
He carried it then as a gallant soldier, n
wise Senator, statesman, who inspired
confidence by his public utterances in
daily speech from the commencement OF
the canvass TO its close. He still has all
these claims, and in addition an admins
tration beyond criticism and rich with
the elements Of popularity with which to
carry New York again. Ancestry helps
in the Old World, and handicaps In the
New. There is but one distinguisked sv-
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