The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-08

man, but ne is o man OF vast deal more
ability than many men who have earned
more titles to transient fame: he has ale
ways been implicitly trusted and univers-
ally respected for his public and private
integrity; pc was always honorably ambi-
tious Of the approval of his fellow men; he
has wanted to be useful in action and
humane in influence rather than to b
cheered by the mob in the market place;
and slowly but surely his solid quality Of
mind and temper was firmly established in
the confidence and respect of his country.
He has had . high sense Of public duty; he
has never shirked his duty, and the
warmth of his welcome home by his fellow
citizens of Indianapolis is due to the fact
that men Of all parties believe that he did
his full duty A. president according to the
best light that God gave him to see the
right
If style be the man in carefully written
words, style II the man in carefully spoken
words, and measured BY the high average
OF his public speech to his fellow country
men, Mr.. Harrison is Q man of very
superior talents and strength OF character.
His public speeches are always manly.
sensible and in perfect good taste. and
often they are full of grace, beauty and
sloauencs Of expression. Chauncey De-
pew, Col. Ingersoll and Joseph II. Choate
are rated the best public speakers In New
York city, but it would trouble any Of
these brilliant men to make % perfect
speech to public assembly a. ex-P President
Harrison has repeatedly made during his
official term. Mr.. Harrison, among other
things. said on Monday:
lett you with one certainty and return with
the certainty that had no other motive in my
heart than to honor tho nag. maintain the
sacredness OF the constitution and 70 aid the
prosperity OF all our people. fCheera) come
70 you again accompanied BY great sorrow, but
trust, and your presence here gives me your
witness. unattended oy any shame growing out
OF the discharge Of my public duties.
For good taste, good sense and good
feeling it would b difficult to match these
few sentences In the speech Of any of our
public men made on similar occasions.
We are called by foreigners rude, Ill
hammered people, but in public courtesy
to our public men the people Of the United
States set an example worthy of imitation
by England. No American statesman was
ever greeted with public insult, - Mr..
Gladstone was on Sunday last when leav-
ing church At Brighton by . crowd of Tory
rowdies OF aristocratic quality: and no
American soldier or statesman was ever
insulted by mob as was the Duke of
Wellington. Mr.. Gladstone has had his
windows smashed by the mob and his car
riage stoned. and other illustrious English
men have suffered personal indignities
at the hands of the opposition.
The only instance in our history whore
IN American statesman has suffered per.
sonal insult was when in May, 1888. Lieut..
Randolph. who had been dismissed from
the navy for shortage in his accounts, At.
tempted to pull President Jackson's nose.
In time Of peace there has been no public
insult. because Of political feeling, offered
any American statesmen by the opposi.
ton. The life Of Jackson was attempted
by lunatic; the life of Lincoln was taken
BY monomaniac, and the life Of Garfield
by . lunatic. but there was no sane poll
tics behind those acts any more than there
was behind the seven different personal
assaults that have been made on Queen
Victoria since her coronation in 1887.