Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-11

en- with safety insult our flag or muir
der American eailors.
Germany and England have learned
in Samoa that the United States has be-
come one Of the powers Of the world,
and that no matter how mighty the ad-
yersary, at every sacrifice American
honor viii be maintained.
The Bering see question, which was
m ineurmountable obstacle in the
diplomacy of Cleveland and Bayard, has
been settled upon basis which sus-
tanned the American position, until
arbitration shall have determined our
right.
The dollar of our country has been
placed and kept on the standard OF the
commercial nations, and q convention
has been agreed upon with foreign
governments which, by making BIZ
metallism the policy of all nations, may
successfully solve all our financial
problems.
The tariff, tinkered with and trif1ed
with to the serious disturbance of trade
and disaster to business since the days
of Washington, has been courageously
embodied into a code which has
preserved the principle OF protection to
American industries. To it has been
added the beneficent reciprocity policy,
supplemented by beneficial treaties and
wise diplomacy, which has opened to
our farmers and manufacturers the mar.
kets of other countries.
The navy has been builded upon lines
which will protect American citizens
and American interests and the Ameri-
can flag all over the world.
The public debt has been reduced;
maturing bonds have been paid off; the
burdens of taxation have been light
ened. Two hundred million dollars of
currency has been added to the peoples
money without the disturbance of ex-
changes. Unexampled prosperity has
crowned wise laws and wise administra-
tion.
The main question which divides us
is: To whom does the credit of all this
belong? Orators may stand upon this
platform, more able and more eloquent
than /, who will paint in more brilliant
colors; but they cannot put in more
earnest thought the affection and ad-
miration of the Republicans for our dis
tinguished secretary of state. Iyield to
no Republican, no matter from what
state he halls, in admiration sfor John
Sherman, for Governor Mckinley, for
Thomas B. Reed, for Iowa's great
son, for the favorites of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan; but when
I am told that the credit for
the brilliant diplomacy of this admin
istration belongs exclusively to the Sec
retary of state; for the administration of
its finances to the secretary of the treas
ury; for the construction of its ships to
the secretary of the navy; for the in
PRODUCTION of American pork into
Europe, to the secretary of agriculture;
for the settlement, go far as it is settled,
of the currency question, to Senator
John Sherman; for the formulation of
the tariff laws to Governor Nc
Kinley; for the removal of the restric-
tions placed by foreign nations upon
the introduction of American pork to
our ministers at Paris and Berlin; am
tempted to seriously inquire: Who,
during the last four years, has been
president of the United States, anyhow?
Cesar, when he wrote those COM
mentaries which were the history of the
conquests of Europe under his leader
ship, modestly took the position of
-Eneas, when he said "They are
narrative of events, the whole Of which
I saw, and part of which wss." Gen
eral Thomas, as the rock of Chick
amauga, occupies place in our history
with Leonidas among the Greeks, ex-
cept that he succeeded where Leonidas
failed. The fight of Joe Hooker
above the clouds was the poetry of
battle. The resistless rueh of Sheridan
and his steed down the valley of the
Shenandoah is an epic of our civil war.
The march of Sherman from Atlanta to
the sea is the supreme triumph of gal
lantry and strategy. 1t detracts nothing
from the splendor Of the fame or the
merits Of the deeds OF bis lieutenants,
to say that having selected them with
marvellous sagacity and discretion,
Grant still remained the supreme COM
mander of the national army.
All the proposed acts of any admins
tration before they are formulated, are
passed upon in cabinet council, and
the measures and suggestions of
the ablest secretaries would have
failed with lesser president. But for
the great good of the country and the
benefit OF the Republican party they
have succeeded, because of the suggest.
i've mind, indomitable courage, intelli-
gent appreciation of situations and
grand magnanimity of Benjamin Har.
risOn.
1t is an undisputed fact that during
the few months when both the secretary
of state and the secretary of the treas
ury were i'll, the president personally
assumed the duties of the state depart
ment and of the treasury department,
and both with equal success.
The secretary of state in accepting
his portfolio under President Garfield
wrote: "Your administration must be
made brilliantly successful and strong
in the confidence and pride of the peo-
pie; not at all directing its energies for
q reelection, and yet compelling that
result by the logic of events and by the
imperious necessities of the situation"
Garfield fell before the bullet of the
assassin, and Blaine retired to private
life. General Harrison invited him to
take up that unfinished diplomatic ca
reer where its threads had been 60 trag-
ically broken. He entered the cabinet.
He resumed his work. and has won a
higher place in our history. The proph-
esy he made for Garfield has been eu-
perbly fulfilled by Harrison. In the
language of Blaine. Harrison has COM
PEELED his reelection by the logic of
events and the imperious necessities of
the situation.
The man who is nominated here to-
day, to win, must carry certain we'll
known number of doubtful states. Pat
rick Henry in the convention which
started rolling the ball OF the independ-