The Forrest City times., 1893-10-27
HARR,SON'S MISTAKE.
The Ex-Prcsident's Erroneous Views on
 His Recent Defeat.

The Ex-P-csiGent's Erroneous NieWs on
 His Recent Defeat.
 Ex.President Benjamin Harrison is manifestly bourbon of the bourbons. He never learns nor does he forget. Tutored in the school of the Dudleys and the Quays. he has imbibed the idea that the American people are venal, and tmid and easily deprived of their rights He also believes that they are not progressive people. and that the returns of one election should be true index of the returns of all subsequent elections; that the republican party of to-day ought to manifest as much strength as it did while in the heyday of its power under the leadership of men of mental grasp and moral standing. He is evidently conscious of the fact that the repu blican party has not pro- gressed. except, perhaps, backward, and complains bitterly at the advancement of the people, which has left that organ ization far in the rear.
 It is not surprising that Mir. Harrison should look upon the repeal of the fed- eral election laws as step in the wrong direction He should know that the machinery of the government has in the past been employed to prevent the free expression of the will of the American people. and that that fact ac- counts for past republican maJoritles in sections of the country that are normally democratic. This is true of the state of Tennessee, to which he re- ferred in recent inverview with Chi cago reporter. He complains that in section which gave Blaine consider able majority in 1884 he himself received but minority of the votes. He over- looks the fact that Blaine was a mag netic, popular man with the masses of the people, while he is the re- verse--a cold. unsympathetic, self sufficient egotist, personally repel- lant to all with whom he comes in contact Blaine was a peerless leader of men, who often won victory by the sheer brilliancy and audacity of his tactics; Harrison is a man of slug gish nature-a plodder and a schemer, who looks to others to lead. and is con- tent to place himself at their mercy. Tennessee was not the only state that repudiated Harrison while it accepted Blaine Illinois gave Blaine majority of nearly twenty-six thousand, while it gave to Cleveland over Harrison a plu rality of almost twenty-seven thousand This change in public sentiment was not due to intimidation of voters, for at the date of the last election Illinois had a republican state government, and re- publican supervisors of election were in nh of n ho y,a1lipn y,1aoac in, Ch;- | cago and other large cities. The Aus tralian ballot system prevented the in- timidation of voters so long practiced by republican employers of labor and republican politicians, and as a conse quence the vote cast represented more freely than ever before the deliberate intention of the electors
 MT. Harrison must look elsewhere l than to "the suppression of the vote" of negroes and other republicans for a reason for his defeat last fall It was due to general distrust of the people in his party "a distrust that has been constantly growing for years, and has been fostered and confirmed by the per sistent refusal of the party to redeem it's pledges; by it's constant impositions | of hardship upon the masses for the benefit of the favored monopolists; by it's persistent espousal of dangerous financial theories and economic doc trines. These things, added to the per sonal unpopularity of its candidate for the presidency, com Joined to accomplish | it's overthrow. It was not the suppress sion, but the casting of the full vote of | the country that brought about the | overthrow of Mir. Harrison and his | party. St Paul Globe.
 A REIAI IAIION POI ICX