Fair play., 1892-06-25
PARAGRAPRIC POINTERS.

The republican party to White
! law Rcid-iou have the nomination.
now produce the stuff Chicago
/ Times.
! There was nothing in the pro-
/ cccdin~S at Minneapolis to subStantiatc
popular impression that Il gentleman
: named Morton has been intimately CON
ncctcd with the present administra-
tinn. Chicago News Record
1t was probably Il Blaine humor-
list who t"l,'gra phrd to Col. Dudley at
/ Minneapolis to arrange the southern
delegates in blocks of five and see that
none got away until they had voted for
llarriSon.-St. Paul Globe.
Tho negroes of the south are
said to be against Harrison. They will
always be against any republican pres
ident who will carry out his partv's
programme, which is to give them
nothing but promises for their votes -
n. Y. World.
- Morton was Il millionaire who
had once lought the treasury portfolio
and had lost it by the prrtidy of Gar
Iitti lAtIti IL VI tilf' iii.llDltiiit SlltD-
ocracv and he is beside that the partic-
ular enemy of organized labor -kan-
saS City Times.
The nomination of Whiteiaw
Rcid for vice president in place of Levi
l.. Morton is q peculiar concession to
the one great stat,. in the union which
Mr.. Harrison coulI not control. # it
! II -
of 4 doubtful quantity not at present
visihlc.-N. y. Advertiser.
Assuming Mr. Elaine to be in
the possession of all hi, faculties he goes
down ANONYMOUSLY upon field where
he was thought to he peerless and i'm
prcgnahie But the likelihood is that
the plumcd knight is the victim. not
the hero, OF Il hcartlcss ring of profca-
sional politicians. who were using his
name and fame as n barricade by
which they might delay the movement
of the convention until they had COM
pleted their plans t. defeat the nom
inat;on of Harrison. Louisville Courier
Journal ldcm.l.
The convention has cut out for
the organs and orators of the party
herculran task by the claims it makes
as 10 the bcncticcnt operations of
McI[inlcyiSm. At the very moment i;
was calling attention to the prosperous
condition Of our country as the result
of Mckinleyi>m. the worIingmen
in one of the industries most carefully
protected by the tariff were arrayinc
themselves against their employers.
who have announced their intention to
reduce the wages of the former from
twenty To fifty per cent.-Dctroit Free
Press
ordinary courtesy and pOiitcneSs
should It least have prompted some re-
publican in the Minneapolis conven-
ton to express the party respect for
Vice President Morton and its regret
that tradition and iiattering cXpecta-
tiuns dictated the placing of another
name than his in the second place on
the ticket. Ii Mr.. Morton had ALWAYS
treated the republican party aS the |
party has now treated him there would |
have been long faces and empty cof- |
fer> in many Il campaign headquarters |
dnring the past twenty ycar>-N. y. |
Times.
-onc thing seems 10 bc certain |
The republican party. although strong
" ccmented and kept together by the
cohesive power OF public ptundcr."
cannot stand many more such strains
as have just been put upon it at Min
neapolis Indeed. il the American
people arc disposed! II resent the impu.
Dent parade OF fraud. malice. lunacv.
corruption. imhecility and treachcry as
factors in politics it can
with safety he asserted that benjamin
Harrison Will not succeed himself. and
that after the ith OF next March no re-
publican will ever again tc president
Of Ih: United NtateS.-thitagoT Times.