The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-03
az APPEAL TO STATE PRIDE.

four years ago appealed at once very
strongly to the sentiment of State pride.
To begin with, nc was by ancestry, birth.
breeding. education, training and tastes
essentially a Western man. BY family
tradition and personal experience he was
wholly identified with the section of the
country of which Indiana is a part. In
the next place. he was an Indiana man.
His whole adult life had been passed in
the State. His character and career
were we'll known to its people. He was
known To- be man of great ability and
spotless life. By his frequent canvass
ing of the State his name had become
familiar as household words. He had
filed the position of United States Sem
ntor with great honor, and had long
been distinctly recognized by the people
as a presidential possibility. Up to
that time Indiana had never had
candidate for President. Morton and
Hendricks had both been urged for the
nomination by their respective parties,
but neither had succeeded in obtaining
it. 1t was reserved for man consider
ably younger than either of them to at
tain the honor to which they had as
PRED in vain. For 1t is an honor to be
worthily nominated for President, even
if one is not elected. The nomination
of General Harrison was distinct Yec-
oRnition of his fitness Tor the position as
well rs his availability, and his friends
in Indiana recognized it as an honor to
the State. 1t brought the State and city
of his residence at once into great prom
inence. Millions of people began to
talk about the Indiana man. Hoosiers
everywhere were proud of the honor
that bad come to the State, and espe-
cially in the knowledge that it was so
worthily bestowed. They resolved that
the next President should be an In
diana man. No party ever worked
with more zeal, determination and
enthusiasm to accomplish q pur-
pose than tho Republicans of In
diana did to elect Harrison. They
were brimful of the sentiment of State
pride-proud that the State had been
permitted to name a presidential candi-
date for the Republican party, and proud
that it had named Benjamin Harrison.
They worked hard and effectively, and
Harrison was elected. His administra-
tion is part of the history of the coun-
try. There it stands-it speaks for it
self. 1t is conceded on all hands and by
every body that the country never had a
better.
1t has been snid by Democratic papers
that the second candidacy of General
Harrison does not appeal to State pride
as his first did-that that sentiment has
exhausted itself and cannot be made to
serve a second time. The Journal believes
this, is far from being true. To admit it
would be to aver that the people of
Indiana do not know when they are
well off; that they are incapable of rat
ing at its proper value a rare political
honor; that they are ungrateful and un-
appreciative; that they are inaccessible
to the strongest arguments that can ap-
peal to the sensibiities of men. and
lacking in the spirit that should charac-
terize every State in helping to confer
honor on one of its citizens. The Jour-
nal does not hesitate TO say that Gen.
Harrison is even more worthy of the en-
thusiastic support of the Republicans of
Indiana and of receiving the electoral
vote of the State now than no was four
years ago. If he was worthy then, he
is doubly so now. He deserves the
honor of receiving for a second
time the electoral vote of the State
because, by his administration of
the national government, he has
conferred great and lasting honor on
the State. 1t is true, in sense, that he
is not so distinctively an Indiana candi-
date as he was four years ago. Now his
fame is continental and his candidacy is
national. But he is still Benjamin Har-
rison of Indiana. His heart and home
are still here. Within a few days he
has accompanied the mortal remains of
his beloved wife from Washington and
| laid them to rest in Indiana soil. Hither
| he will return when his term of Office
expires, and his body, too, will find it's
last resting place in the soil of Indiana.
He is still an Indiana man. How unreal
sonable. therefore, would it be. how in
consistent, how indefensible, how I'M
| grateful, how utterly unaccountable for
any Indiana man who voted for Harri-
son four years ago not to do SO now.
| Nay, more; thousands of Indiana men
| who did not vote for him four
| years ago ought to do so now
because of the record he has made and
the honor he has brought the State. II
the people of Indiana are true to them
selves and to the best interests of the
State, if they are true to the impulse of
genuine State pride, they will give Ben
jamin Harrison four times as large a
| plurality as they did tour years ago. By
so doing they will cause it to be written
in history that they were neither unap-
| preciative nor ungrateful, and that, in
common with their countrymen of other
States, they recognized the merits of one
of the greatest of American Presidents.
WHAT FREE SILVER COINAGE WOULD MEAN
The Democratic party is on record in