The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-14
THE HARRISON REVIVAL.
The Doctrine of Predestlnntion Docs Not
Include Whitelaw Reid.

The Doctrine of Predestination Docs Not
Include Nhitelaw Reid.
WASHINGTON, june 13.-The Hon. John
G. News proclamation that Harrison is in
tending to run again for president in 1896
has been made more positively in private
conversation than the published interview.
He left no sort Of doubt on the subject.
and be has been confirmed in his declara-
ton of Harrison's intentions by other H.
dianians. inspired by Harrison himself. So
much, therefore, is settled as to Har ison.
But moro remains unsupg. Harrison's
plan does not contemplate the renomina-
zion of the Hon. Whitelnw Reid for vice.
president. Reid's nomination at Mime
apo!is was not altogether pleasing to Har-
rison, and he said at the time he
Steve Elkins.. as much as any one,
was responsible. Throughout tho cam
paiRn Gen. Harrison held steadily to this
view, but of course expressed it only
in the q~uietest manner n seldom. After
the election he repeated this conviction in
enumeratinR the reasons for his defeat.
He intirnated his opinion. also, after thu
election. that the consequences OF Reid's
nomination were even moro distinct in
driving away from the republican working
mems organizations that any one had fore
seen. Therefore. whom Harrison says he
intends to be up for a second term, his plan
of predestinntion does not extend to Mr..
Reid for vice. president. The Indiana talk
for Harrison has opened the mouths of
some Others on the snme subject, but a. yet
the shaking of heads significantly by re-
publicans whenever ii Is referred to, tells
more than spoken words.
Gen. Harrison's plan is not the old plan
OF preordination, whereby he became the
candidate in 1892. He is to run in 1896 OH
u variation that will place lin before the
country as 'the best man." supported by
the better part of the republicans and such
recruits as the reorganization of PARTIES
which Is contemplated by his plan. and all
others who pant for the good and great in
Eoiltics, including many democrats-ni
slgnlfyihg a new era of grace md .urity in
elections. The supporter Harrison by such
wicked men as Ex-senator Plutt. Senator
Quay, Joe Maulev. and others like them,
who never did believe in predestination in
elections. e1cept daient unde, a condition
like that which preceded the last Novem-
Der battle. is not contemplated. Ono o.
the leading items in Hsrtison's confes
sion OF faith 10 the TO- CO bill
But Platt. Quay and Maniey ar,
tisbelieve s IN 1t. And Harrison has NJ
d idea that he will be all the st onger with
out them, so long AS patriots and pure Iner
Of the John g. New stamp cling to him
While the plnn Of proclamation is positivi
rs TO Harrison. there are but surface iudt
cations az to others. No doubt exists, how
ever, that the Lond of low, between hin
and them has been broker beyond repair.
Tho Harrison talk has had the effect I
make friends of others. particularly in tn
west. to spenk up just enough to let it b
known that the friends of senator CulloI
think of him. also of Lincoln: but thei
voices have Il diminishing emphasis, Will
u host declare that to tho west the pait
must go for Its candidate the next tim1
All these. however, pay attention whe
Morton's name is pronounced. Some as
how old he Is. and all agree to let Brotht
Plat try his hand in New York next fall,