The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-07

Ninety of the delegates to Minneapolis,
or about 10 per cent. of the convention, are
office-holders. Four out of every five of
these are from the South, Georgia leading
with twenty-five office-holders out Of
president expressed his disapproval of this
sort of representation of the party at its
nominating convention, but he was care
full to delay this expression of opinion
until after the delegates had been chosen.
Certainly the support of Mr.. Blaine by
disappointed spoilsmen" is very small
and meager compared with the ninety
delegates to the national convention,
chiefly from the South, who are
correctly described as "spoilsmen," who
at least are not disappointed" and do not
expect to be If Harrison is renominated.
Among the eO2 votes originally
claimed for Harrison by his friends
are Alabama %, Arkansas 16. Flor
ida 8, Georgia %, Kentucky %,
Louisiana 49, Maryland 49, Mississippi IS,
Missouri 10, North Carolina q. Tennessee
"a, Texas 30; these, with six votes from
three territories, stand for 23s delegates
which represent communities in which
there is not the slightest hope of securing
Republican electoral vote. These facts
and figures make it plain that the quality
of Mr.. Harrison's support is quite as open
to criticism as that of Mr.. Blaine.
The meanest slur of Blaine is the Chi
cago Graphic's reference to the fact
that Mr.. Blaine has no "war record"
This is stupid slur; the records
of our war are written not simply on the
battlefield, but in acts Of legislation; in
the inspiration, organization, nourishment
and direction of public sentiment behind
the army. Did General Garfield's "war"
record end when he was elected to con-
gress and left the army for congress in the
fall of 1867 Did Lincoln and Stanton and
Chase and Andrew and Morton have any
war record"2 Did Conkling. Fessenden,
Wilson, Wade, Sumner, Zach Chandler,
Thad Stevens and Blaine have no
"war record" because they did not
wear army blue like Logan and Blair and
Schenck? War legisiates as well AZ fur.
nishing food for powder. Are not the
emancipation proclamation, the legal
tender act, the national banking act,
the draft act, the authorization of
colored troops. the thirteenth amend
| ment, as much part of the records
| of the war as the chronology of
| the battles between the blue and the gray
| Mr.. Blaine, who entered congress in 1868
with Garfield, can certainly claim an hon.
in, II 4 bo
| that legislates. and when armed conflict
ceased the reconstruction legislation was
| really part of the records of the war; If
| We cannot separate the fame of Lincoln
| and Grant as "a war record" we certainly
| cannot separate the fame Of Harrison and
| Blaine as "war record"
The statement that President Harrison
| is also entitled 10 the distinction of the
| highest achievements of our foreign policy
is a falsehood. The published correspond
ence shows that Mr.. Blaine contributed to
the tariff our policy of reciprocity with
| foreign nations; that he wrote all the i'm
| portant correspondence connected with
the Boring sea negotiations; that
the presidents premature pugnacity in
1 thN Va taAAss very near
| placing US in a most humiliating position
before the civilized world; that we were
only saved from an expensive war in
| which there was neither honor, glory nor
profit by the self restraint and temperate
action of Mr.. Blaine. United States Sem
| ator Hoar of Massachusetts,, in the cur.
rent number OF the Forum, says:
| Mr. Blaine, who was denounced in 1854 as a
| lingo who would bring the country into foreign
| wars for the promotion Of his reckless ambition,
| 10 now admitted evsrywhere 10 be among our
| foremost examples OF a wise, cautious, TEMPER
ate Just, and a. the same time of fir,n courte-
| ous successful. Triumphant American diplora-
| acy.
Mr.. Hoar points on. in detail the mag
nificent results in the extension of Ameri-
can markets possible from the reciprocity
arrangements made or 10 he made under
Blaine's clause of the tariff. These facts
serve TO illustrate the disingenuous nature
of the attack against Blaine carefully pre-
pared for circulation before the week of
the convention by the supporters of Mr..
Harrison.
Joseph Healing, Of indianapolis, who is
working against Harrison's nomination
today, before he started for Minneapolis,