Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-18


good record Of Lincoln, or of Grant, or of Ar
thur, or of Hayes, or Of Garfield. Ii will be won
or lost upon the policy, foreign nnd domestic.
the industrial measures and the administrative
acts of the administration OF Benjamin Harr-
SON Whoever receives the nomination of this
convention will run upon the judgment of the
people, as to whether they have been more
prosperous and more happy: whether the coun-
try has been in better condition ut home and
stood more honorably abroad under these last
four years of Harrison and republican udmins-
tration than during the preceding -four years OF
Cleveland and democratic government Not
since Thesaas Jefferson has any administration
been called upon to face and solve many or
such difficult problems us these which nave been
exigent in our conditions. No administration
since the organization of the government has
ever met difficulties better or more TO the satiS-
faction of the American people.
Mr.. Depew then enumerated the Chilean,
Samoan and Bering sea matters as to the credit
of the president. He also enumerated financial
and tariff legislation as due to Harrison's credit
column.
The main question which divides US is to whom
does the credit belong for all this? Orators
may stand upon this platform more able and
more eloquent than l. who will paint in more
brilliant colors, but they cannot put in more
earnest thought the affection and admiration OF
republicans for our distinguished secretary Of
state. yield to no republican, no matter from
what state he halls, in admiration and respect
for John Sherman, for Gov. Mckinley, for
Thomas b. Reed, for Iowa's great son, for the
favorites of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan,
but when am told that the credit for the brill.
liant diplomacy of this administration belongs
exclusively to the secretary of state for the ad.
mnistration of its finances to the secretary of
the treasury; for the construction of its
ships to the secretary of the navy; for
the introduction of American pork in
Europe Pc to the secretary of aSrcnlture;
tied, OF the currency question 10 Senator John
Sherman; for the formulation of the tariff laws
strictons placed by foreign nations upon the in
PRODUCTION OF American pork to our minister at
Paris and Berlin, am tempted to seriously in
Quire who, during the last four years, has been
president OF the United States, anyhow:
Gen, Thomas, as the rock of Chickamauga,
occupies place in our history with Leonidas
among the Greeks, except that he succeeded
where Leonidas failed The fight of Joe Hook
or above the clouds was the poetry of battle.
The resistless rush of Sheridan and his steed
down the valley of the Shenandoah is the epic
OF orr civil war. The march of Sherman from
Atlanta to the sea is the supreme triumph of
gailan,ry and strategy. 1t detracts nothing
from tho splendor or. the fame or the merits of
the deeds of his lieutenants to say that having
selected them with marvellous sagacty and dis
crelion, Grant still remained the supreme com
mander of the national army. All the proposed
acts OF any administration before they are ior.
mulated are passed upon in cabinet council and
the measures and suggestions of the abest sec
retaries would have failed with lesser presi.
dent, but Tor the great good OF the country and
the benefit Of the republican party they have
succeeded because of the suggestive mind, the
indomitabe courage the intelligent apprecia-
ton of the situation and the grand magnanimt.
ty of Benjamin Harrison 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 departments and with success
The secretary of state in accepting his portfolio
under President Garfield, wrote: Your admin
istration must be made brilliantly successful
and strong in the confidence ana 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 imperious necessities
of the situation.
Garfield fell before the bullet OF the assassin
and Mr.. Blaine retired to private life. Gen.
Harrison invited him TO take up that unfinished
diplomatic career where its threads had been so
tragically broken. He entered the cabinet He
resumed his work and has won high place in
our history. The prophecy he made for Garfield
has been superbly fulfilled by President ,Har-
rison. In the language of Mr.. Blaine: The
president has compelled u reelection by the
logic of events and the imperious necessities OF
the situation"
win. must carry certain well-known number
of doubtful states. New York was carried in
1880 by Gen. Garfield, and in every important
election since that time we have done our best,
and we have put forward our ablcSt, our 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 in 1883 the state of New York was trium-
phantly carried by President Harrison He
carried II then as gallant soldier, n wise sena
tor a statesman who inspired confidence by his
public utterances in daily speech from the COM
mencement of the canvass to the close He still
has all those claims, and in addition an admin
istration beyond criticism and rich with the elc-
ments of the popularity with which TO carry
New York again.
Ancestors help in the Old World and handicap
in the new. There is but one distinguished exc
ample of son first overcoming the limitations
imposed by the pre-eminent fame of his father
and then rising above II and that was when the
younger Pitt became greater than Chatham.
With an ancestor sgner of the Declaration of
Independence, and another who saved the north
west from savagery and gave 1t to civilization.
and who was also president of the United
States, n poor and unknown lawyer OF Indiana
has risen by his unaided efforts 10 such distinc-
ton as lawyer, orator, soldier, statesman and
hn ha rpt moi ~
cestors than they have devolved him, and
presents in American history the parallel OF the
younger Pitt by the grand record of n wise and
popular administration, by the strength gained
by frequent contact with the people, in wonder.
fully versatile and felicitous speech; by tho
claims of a pure life in public and in the sim.
plicity of loyal American home. l nominate
Benjamin Harrison.
AT the close of Depew's speech the
Harrison men started a counter demon
stration to that following Eustis' speech.
An immense crayon portrait of the
president was carried down the plat
form while thousands We're on their feet
shouting and waving every portable
thing that could be handled. The work
of Mrs. Clarkson and Mrs. Lake was
duplicated by Mrs. Depew and Mrs.
Howell, of Pittsburgh, while young
girl in the gallery evoked cheers by
waving an immense flag. Mrs HowclPs
contribution consisted of an ear-split-
ting imitation of the Comanche war
whoop, which she continued until COM
pletely exhausted. In a few minutes
the Harrison portrait was met by the
Chicago Blaine club banner, and down
and up the aisle together they were
carried until the yelling was over.
When quiet was restored Warner
Miller, of New York, seconded Blaine's
nomination. Mr.. Platt waved the New
York delegation to it's feet and led the
applause. 1t was not prolonged. The
chairman brought down his gavel and
the clerk proceeded with the call of the
roll.
The roll call was concluded at two
minutes before O'clock. The chair
man announced that five or six gentle
men in states which had been called de-
sired to speak, but the last few speeches
had evidently tired the convention of