Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-07
HE SUITS HIS PARTY.
A NEW VIEW OF HARRISON'S CHAR.
ACTER AND DISPOSITION.

-EAs Does Not Look Upon the Campaign
as His Own Personal Affair, and Does
Statements Disproved.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph says
that President Harrison is perfectly
confident of success for the Republican
party; that he does not look upon the
campaign as his own personal affair, and
does not try to dominate the party,
and finally that one thing he insists
upon Is that, come what may, the cam.
paign shall be so conducted on his side
that they cannot be truthfully accused OF
resorting to dishonest or improper meth
DDS, and that it shall be clean, straight
up and down fight"
This is an entirely new view of the
presidents character and disposition.
He "does not look upon the campaign as
his own personal affair."" indeed, when
he employed his whole influence as
president to force his nomination al
Minneapolis; when he degraded his high
position by engaging in the most dis.
graceful scramble for the standard OF
the party; when he packed the national
Republican convention with his army OF
officeholders and used the whole power
OF the administration in his own behalf
when he bitterly antagonized every ele,
ment of the party that for any reason
was arrayed against him. He does not
try to dominate the party" when il
was by his efforts and the efforts of his
personal friends and benefciaries that
all the prominent Republican leaders
were snubbed and the management of
the party's campaign was placed in the
hands of those who We're indebted to
him for political favors. So officious, in
fact, was his personal domination of the
party that it was only after weeks of
the most earnest conference and solici-
tation that the national leaders of the
party could be persuaded to assist in
the work of promoting his political for
tunes.
The statement of The Telegraph's cor
respondent that Mr.. Harrison insists that
1.-The campaign shall be SO conducted on
his side that they cannot be truthfully
accused of resorting to dishonest OF
improper methods" ETC., shows the
utter hypocrisy of the Harrison plan of
campaign. Mr.. Harrison knows better
than anybody else that he is president
today because of the dishonest and i'm
proper methods employed by the man
ayers of his campaign four years ago.
He knows that Indiana was carried by
the Republicans in 1888 by Dudley's
"blocks of five;" that the electoral vote
of New York was procured for him four
years ago by the open purchase of votes
at the polls; that he gave John Wana-
maker place in his cabinet because he
had raised corruption fund of 100000
to debauch the ballot box; that since he
took the oath of office as president he
has degraded the whole public service
to the payment of his political debts,
and he knows that his only hope of sue
cess in the present contest is by the
adoption of the same dishonest and i'm
proper methods that characterized his
campaign four years ago.
The Telegraph correspondent saws that
there is no question about his being one
of the best politicians in the country"
From the Harrison-Quay Carter Dave
Martin point of view this is true, but in
the use of honest and proper methods
for the attainment of worthy political
ends Mr.. Harrison is novice. The best
that can be said of him and for him is
that he is fit representative of the Re-
publican party as it is. - Charleston
News and Courier.