Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1892-06-17

aarhcld. Ii VII IL won " lost upon the rol.
.cy foreign am. comes ic. the industrial lux; IS.
uies and the administrative acts OF l.r I'D.
minisirn;ion %: lcnju,uin Harrison. Mna.ver
receives the nomination OF this convention
Will ran upon the judgment Of the people as
10 whether they have been more prosperous
anu more happy. whether the country has tccn
IN II better condition at home, and stood more
honorable abroad, under this last four years of
Harrison AMI Republican administration, than
during the preceding four years of Cleveland
and Democratic government.
Not since Thomas jefferson has any admin
1stratlon been call ID upon to face and solve 50
many or such t:l;!ru!t problems Us those which
nave been cNlgant i'll conditions No ad
minl>tlation ai.icc The organization of gov
erhnt"t hi:s r'rr.nct the difficulties better or
more Ia the e:tt.-I@ tion Of the American pco-
pie. Chill hu lc"n taught that IN matter
how small iic ;g'itaGunis.u no community can
With safety III. III the ;lH;. Euri Aneri-
can sailors, Germany and England have
learned in samoa that the United
states hrs ls one one OF the powers
of the wur,l, and no mat cr how
FAmeri an homo will he ina n;un It. The
l'chrlAt II question. which was
t." nsutnin ,Etu,-t bstu * in tie
ui!!omath' ''!r.rs, las been settled
upon basis W i. il sustuiIs the American pn-
si'ion, until arbitration has determined our
right. The success Of the country is kept on
the stundarl of commercial nations anil II con-
Eeh'iun liHs hr II agreed upon With foreign
governments, which, b. making bi-mctullisai
the policy of al nations. may success fully
solve all onr financial prohcus. The tariff,
tnkercd with and triilcd with to the serious
distuii nee OF trade. has cen cuuraacuu~ly
embodied int" code code which has pre-.
va. t' .,f
industries. I" il las been added Il bvneliccnt
p+l!vl. st!pile,r, ted 10y beneficial, treat les and
Wis, ii! ln:s'' v'tirl ~ ulrn N in our
or and manufactu crs the markets of
or ,onntric he navy has been ui!t
up lines which viii pr Get Anc leans
ana ,h.t rican i'll crcsts and the flag all over
the word. .!r i;ubii debt has ber. reduced.
The matt urin; .un,ls have been p,.d III. Tho
public credit hus been maintained. The bur-
dcns of taxation have been lightencd. CneX-
amplcd prosperity has crowned wise laws and
their wise administration. The main question
Which divide, us is, to whom does the credit
of all this lc,ong? Orators may stand upon
this platform. more able and more eloquent
thaa |, who vii! paint in more brilliant colors
but they cannot put in more earnest Thought,
affection and admiration of Republicans for
| our distinguished secretary of state. 1 yield
to no Repu lican no matter from what state
he halls. in adnirGti ion and respect for John
Sherman, for Governor Mckinley, for Thomas
Is. Reed, for luwa's great SON. for the i;lvorites
OF Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan: but when
| am told that the credit OF the brilliant
diplomacy of this administration belongs cX-
c!u"ivriE TO the secretary of state, for the ad-
min str,tiUn OF its finances to the secretary of
the treasury, icr the construction of its ships
to the sccrctJrj of the navy, for the introduce
tiun of Ameriy an pork into Europe to the sec
rotary of agriculture, for the settlement. so
lar as it is settled, Of tine currency question TO
Senator John Sherman. for the formulation o;R
| the tariff laws to TO, ernor Mckinley, for the
! removal of the restrictions 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
I las. four Years, has been president OF the
| United States, anyhow.
| All the proposed acts of any administration
| before they are formulated arc passed upon in
cabinet council. aad the measures AID su.ges-
| tions of the ablrst secretaries would have
failed with Il lesser president, but for the great
good of the country and the benefit of the Re
| publican party, but they have succeeded be-
cause of the suggestive mind tho indomi able
courage. the intelligent appreciation of situa-
tions, and the grand magnanimity of Ben
jamin Harrison. 1t is an uudisputud fact that
during the few months when both the secre-
tary of state and the secretary of the treasury
were ill, the president personally assumed the
uutics VI luc slute unu OF tle
| treasury department, and both with equal
success The secretary of state in accepting
his portfolio under President Garfield wrote:
| Your administration must be made brilliant
successful, and strong in the confidence and
lri lie of the people, not at all dverting its en-
cry for 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 Mr.. Blaine retired to private
| life. General Harrison invited him to take up
| that unfinished diplomatic life. He entered
the cabinet. He resumed his work, and has
won higher place In our history. The proph-
ecy he made for Garfield has been superbly
| fulfilled by President Harrison. In the Ian
guage of Mr.. Blaine, the president has COM
PEELED reelection by the logic of events and
the impcrious necessities of the situation"
The man who is nominated here to win, must
carry certain well known number of the
doubtful states. Patrick Henry in the
convention which started rolling the
colonies from Great Britain, said: II
have but one lamp by which my feet are
guided, and that is the lamp of experience. l
know of no way in judging the future but by the
past" New York was carried in 1850 by Gen,
Garfield, and in every important election
since that time we have done our best. We
have put forth our ables our most
for governor and state officers. to suffer con-
slant defeat. The only lignt which illumines
with the sun Of hope, the dark record of those
twelve years, is the fact that in 1883 the state
OF New York was triumpantly carried by
President Harrison. He carried it then as a
gallant soldier, a wise senator, states
man who inspired confidence by his
public uttcrances in daily speech from the
commencement Of the canvass to its close.
He still claims it. and in addition, an admin.
istration 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 distinguished example of son first
overcoming the limitations imposed by the
pre-emnent fame of his father, and then
rising above it, and that was when the younger
Pitt became greater than Chatham.
| With an ancestry rs signer of the Declara-
tion of Independence and another who saved
the Northwest from slavery, and gave it to
civilization an empire, and who was also
president of the United States, a poor and
unknown lawyer of Indiana ho has even,
unaided, gained distinction as Il lawyer,
orator, soldier, statesman, and president, that
he reflects more credit upon his ancestors
than they have dcvolvcd upon him, and pre-
scnts case more the parallel of the younger
Pitt by the srapd record of the wise and
popular administration, by the strength
gained in contact with the people in wonder
fully versatile speech. BY the claims of a
pure life in public, and in til, simplicity of a
t! pical American home, nominate Benjamin
| Harrison.