Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-20
GATH ON POLITICS.
He Says the Country Will Stand by
Harrison and Prosperity.
HIS PORTRAYAL OF CLEVELAND.
A Vivid Comparison of the Two Candidates
for the Presidency.
TIE INCUMBESl's GREAT RECORD

WASHINToN, Sept 19-George Alfred
Townsend, the well-known journalist, who
resides on mountain side, near Hagers-
town, Md, accorded the editor of local
newspaper the other day an interview on
National politics. Asked as to the probable
result of the Presidential election, he said
that in his opinion Mr.. Harrison would be
elected easier this time than before. Asked
what he based his belief on, he replied:
ION my intercourse with the business
men of New York. They want nothing of
the Democratic party. Its existence, not to
say its return, threatens every cheerful and
prosperous employment in the land. Mr..
John G. Moore, of tine great banking and
brokerage firm of Moore & Schley,
said to me that the business ele-
ment was practically solid for Har-
rison. Edgar johnson, of the law
firm of Ex-Governor Hoadley, of Ohio, a
Democrat. said that Ben Harrison had been
his fellow law pupil and was always brave
and affectionate and able, and, he added,
"he has given us irst-class judges, like
Brown and Brewer, while Cleveland's ap-
pointees Fuller and Lamar, have written
socialistic and demagogic opinions which
ought to disgust every sound lawyer in the
land.
Prosperity Due to Repub1icanisrn.
'The condition of the country is highly
prosperous, and it is due to the business
genius of Republican legislation. WheD-
ever we have the Republicans in power
every hand and heart takes courage. The
Democratic party never mas any hope ex-
cept in panic and disaster. Their candi
date, Cleveland, is only heard from in
criticism, while Harrison's utterances
are all congratulation. the one is
a hectoring and monotonous critic; the
other constructive and suggestive spirit.
The one gives you a helping hand; the
other mess of dogmatic conceit. The let
ter of Harrison is irretutable in facts. He
was brave soldier and sees things with
fortitude; the other sent a substitute to the
war, though he had no chick nor wife de-
pendent upon him, and he sees everything
like a skedaddler.
''Do you know both Cleveland and Har-
rison?''
81 know them both. Mr.. Cleveland is
diseasedly sensitive. He takes pains to in
suit every person who hasn't paid him the
homage due q despot He chooses his
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, am told, at the house
Va
said to Mr.. Cleveland: The election is over;
come and dine with me. No, replied Cleve-
land, your paper said was not gentle
man. 1t would be poetical justice to see
brute like that sent to his friendless re-
morse by Mr.. Reid in this election"
Harrison an Able Statesman.
"You were not in favor of Harrison's re-
nomination."
81 thought Mr.. Blaine deserved the Presi-
dency. He has been the leader of the Re-
publican party ever since Grants Presi-
dency. The whole genius of this tariff
defense was Blaine's But it frequently
happens that leader parts with so much of
bis tempera ment in exuberance that he is
less fitted than another to do the Presidents
work. The business and discreet interest of
the land selected Harrison and means to
support him; think that, next to Blaine,
and perhaps Sherman, he is our ablest
statesman. He belongs to the type of
men like William the Silent, and Wash |
ngton and Grant, whose wisdom restrains
heir effusiveness, who watch and |
wait and learn. The Democratic party, al |
ways riding backward, never sees a great |
nan till it has passed him. General Harri-
ION has been a firm supporter of the lessons |
he has learned. AS his grandfather over
threw jackson, the grandson will bury this |
,reposterous Cleveland, who is a fat and |
eeble pupil of the Republican party. The |
tory of Cleveland's one term is: HE is |
lot as bad as his party But he is a dema-
,ogue, if with different lot of questions |
rom other deinagogues His disgraceful |
Episode with the British Minister showed !
hat he was capable of insulting the Ma
ions guest as well as the guest of his
riend's table.
Hard IN Grover apd Stayo
"He was three years finding out that the
arif was a grievance and when it broke
i'm down he had a protection platform
made for this year, which was reported by
Tilas and Jones, but the infammatory con-
ention would not demagogue with him,
nd declared in favor of scuttling the Ma
ion forthwith. Such man, with his diseased
and fat and dropsical body,
nav either turn out a Henry VIII. or
cave the Office to that Illinois windbac,
tevenson, whom every business man looks
pom with contempt To turn the
ountry over to the solid South and
he foreign anarchists would be to
i've away our birthright. The election of
harrison will forever end the solid South
nd raise the section to the dignity of tol-
ration of opinion, the want of which has
eprived them of new settlers Nothing
ut Cleveland's own term has preserved the
democratic party to this time. Its ira
itions, derived from Jefferson, Jackson and
alhoun, are all at war with the necessities
our day. We want homo
sneous country, with diversified in
nstries, national money, good order
nd respect for the laws BY beating
leveland we beat the last apology for q
,ro that organization of heresies and illit-
'acies has. 1t degraded the civil service
nder jackson; it never dared to challenge
II tariff system till it failed to undermine
II public credit and our splendid system
currency. It's attack upon American
shows how little else was
It to complain OF; they sre attacked be-