The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-06

JUDGE GRESHAM is one of those uDfortu-
mates who can never forgive the Repub-
Iican party for not accepting and promot-
ing them at their own valuatiOn-Buffalo
Commercial.
ALTHOUGH it is said that Judge Gresham
is not prompted by personal differences in
his present course. it is safe to say that he
considers Benjamin Harrison an unfit per-
son TO hold the presidency st. Louis Post
Dispatch DEM
THE Gresham detection on q personal
matter does not offset the acquisition of
George TIcknor Curtis on q matter of
principle. Then. Mr.. Curtis was never a
candidate for the presidency.-Brooklyn
Standard Union.
WE are sorry to lose Judge Gresham from
the Republican party. but such defectiOns
are not q miracle. and they do not seriously
influence the great movements of politics.
lie Is by nature largely socielistic in his
ideas. as many an honest and able man has
been.-BOst Advertiser.
III he should vote for Cleveland, the fact
would be of no consequence. Every news
paper reader knows that Judge Gresham
has a personal grievance against the Presi-
dent; and a man who changes his .polltics
because his own m of himself is not
accepted by others will not carry much
weight.-Philadelphia Press.
THE New York World is very poor au-
thorIty for the statement that Judge
Gresham will vote for Cleveland. But the
matter is of little consequence. AS a COM
promise between running on the Alliance
ticket tor President and doing nothing, %
vote for Cleveland, rotten bank currency
and ruined Industries might answer.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. .
To repress the fact that his [Gresham'sl
relations with President Harrison have
long been strained would be disingenuous.
The pains at which Republicans are to note
this fact as the cause of his Coming QUIZ
and the care taken by the Democrats to in
eist that the fact is not the cause unltedlv
advertise the fact itself. 1t were falsity to
denv and folly to ignore the fact.-Brook-
lyu Eagle DEM
TIE Republican National Convention of
1888 soured Gresham, and up to that time he
was steadfast In his faith. That is the Sc
cret of Judge Gresham's opposition to
President Harrison, and he does himself an
injustice if las reported by his irlends) he
imputes the hsnge of heart to the tariff
question. 1t was the same disappointment
that drove William III. Seward around the
world and Salmon p. Chase into the Demo-
cratic party.-Springield (O.), Republic
Times.
For many years Judge Gresham was re-
garded as q firm advocate of Republican
principles. and it is difficult to CONCEIVE
how a man of mis- training. associations and
habits can be willing to sustain the Demo-
cratic party in the present national con-
test. Yet the Judge would probably be
consulting his own personal comfort" in
many ways by making a final choice as to
the political camps which would land him
amongst the followers of Mr.. Cleveland.
-Philadelphis Telegraph.
III Judge Gresham takes such a steu, it
will be interpreted throughout the country,
no matter what reason he may assign, as
the result of personal feeling against the
Republican party for failing to nominate
him for President IN 1888, and against the
President. Mr.. Harrison not only obtained
the nomination in 1883 which Gresham
coveted. but he failed to appoint the latter
to the seat on the Supreme bench now held
by Judge Brewer. The man who changed
his political belief because OF personal
pique is not likely to lave a numerous fol-
lowing.-Toledo Blade.