The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-11
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HARRISON.

tH44#F#"5E& bEN n MAN "shA
At the presidential election in No
yember, 1883, 5o3,755 votes less than
one-half of all those cast were for Ben
iamin Harrison for president or the
United States. Only 47.s3 per cent. OF
The voters Of the country wanted him to
all the office Of chief executive. The
republican national convention at Min
neapolis, largely made up of men hold
ing offices given them by Benjamin
Harrison, foisted this minority presl-
dent upon the party as the candidate
with whom they will take the chances
Of tho November election. There is no
reason why Harrison should be- any
stronger than he was four years ago,
and the late overwhelming defeat of the
republican party at the general elections
must be laid to the conduct of the re-
publican administration, of which Har-
rison was the head and front. There
fore, it is logical to predict and reason
able to expect that his minority in the
election next fall will be much greater
than IL was four years ago. His success
in the previous campaign, after having
repeatedly been defeated for office in
his own state, was due to the unscru-
pulous work of the most notorious gang
Of political corruptionists any country
has ever seen, including Quay, Dudley,
Clarkson, Wananaker and others of
that tribe. Dudley parcelled off in
sblocks OF five" tho voters Of Indiana
and bought them for Harrison with
Blood money drawn from the tariff
barons of the east by Wanamaker, who,
in turn, for this debauchery of the fran
chise, was made postmaster general in
Harrison's cabinet. The work OF Quay
in that campaign as chief manager of
the republican forces, is too motor
ious and infamous to be forgotten. But
the conditions at present are changed.
Quay, Dudley, Clarkson and others are
now deadly enemies of Harrison, and
having had experience of his ingrati-
tude for work in his own behalf, will
not run the chances of the p~enitentiary
again to achieve the election of Harri-
son to the presidency. They we'll re-
member how, four years ago, Harrison
accepted the benefits of their iniquitous
methods, and having become estab-
lished in power immediately turned his
back on them and refused them recoe-
nitlon or reward. Though the evil re-
sources Of the republican party are
seemingly i~nexhaustible, it is hardly
probable that there will be found com
petent scoundrels within it's ranks who
will care to busy themselves for the
election OF the man from Indiana, and
without able Successors to Quay, Dud-
ley, ct al, the republican party will
come to the polls in November with nc
hope of success.
benjamin Harrison is the best expou.
ent OF all that is bad in principle in the
republican party. He is at the head OF
the administration which established
the Mckinley high tax law, enacted
solely in the interests of, and as y re-.
ward for, the tariff barons and their
contributions to the republican corrup.
ton fund. He inspired the Infamous
force bill, which was only prevented
from being enacted into a law bv the
determined action of a few western re.
pnblicans who saw the handwriting or
Inc wall foretelling tho overwhelming
defeat of the republican party in 1890
Harrison has been the constant foe @
the silver states. lie gave, by his silenc,
II not by covert encouragement, san
ton to tho ~wastefu!ness of the billio,
dollar congress and the autocratic an,
despotic practices of it's speaker, GA
Reed. He winked at the larceny of tn
state OF Montana and recognjzed it
fraudulent representatives in congress
He signed the bills which wasted tn
surplus on hand at the beginning of hi
administration, and his secretary OF tn
treasury must now every few days rear
sure the people that there is not a trea.
ury deficiency and that the obligation
OF the government have not as yet pou
to protest, though he is not able I
give them any assurance that such wi
not TO the case in a short time.
A recent bulletin from the census O
flee gives glowing estimates OF the in
mense wealth OF the United State
Yet IT is known OF all men that the,