The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-24
PRAISE FOR HARRISON
Even Political Adversaries Commend His
Administration


Administration.
All said that can be said fairly
against Gen. Harrison and his admin
lstration. the fact remains that he has
served the country uncommOnly we'll
The machinery of domestic govern
ment has moved smoothly under mis-
supervision No great scandal dis
figures the record of his term The
moral tone has been good for the past
four years There has been little cant
or false pretense, and no systematie
jObbery lurking behind grandilOque ut
professions The dominant spirit of
his administration has been a genuine
ambition to do its duty and to Justify
the trust reposed in it by the voters of
the land While Gen Harrison my
not have built up personal following
or inspired in the hearts of his assOci-
ates anything like enthusiastic devO-
tiou. ne has sOberlv and without arti-
fee earned the respect, and. in many
WAYS, the gratitude, of his fellow citi-
zens of all parties His cOmmunica-
tons by writing have been admirably
direct. frank. forcible and ineligible
The figure he has prese nted on state
occasions has been always dignifsd
and respectable. In his informal in
tercOurse with the people in mass as
as in his remarkably original, witty
and sensible speeches from the rear plat
forms OF various Pullman cars he has
managed to come nearer to the popular
heart and to the republican ideal than
any president since Abraham Lincoln
In this statement there is nothing in
consistent with what has already been
said. The effect of the repellant quail
Ity of which we have spoken does not
extend beyond arms length. Ben
jamin Harrison is a man of brains and
strong will, and it is not his destiny to
be classed in history with the light
weight presidents.
We have reserved to the last what
will undoubtedly constitute Gen Harri-
sons chief title to fame and gratitude
as the years 90 by. To his everlasting
honor be it remembered that he was
one of the first OF American statesmen
to recognize and appreciate the broad
Z significance of that great revival of the
American spirit which marks the end
of the nineteenth century. Whatever
may have been his mistakes or short
cOmings in other respects, he has never
wavered in his fidelity TO the flag that
I is the glory and pride of our sixty-fve
millions Of people His cOuntry's bush
ness with the other nations of the
earth has been conducted By him with
/ vigor, dignity and success Under Sec
! rotary Tracy, to whom the nation owes
/ special gratitude and thanks, the navy
/ has grown TO be real power. In the
I Samoan affair, in the difficulty with
/ Italy, in the Gillian dispute, in our
! complicated and delicate relations with
/ Canada, in the matter Of Hawaiian an
nexation, Gen. HarrisOn's impulses
have been sound and patriotic, and his
actions wise, firm and splendidly
/ American. If it had been otherwise he
would have been false to the blood
/ that flows in his veins; but, not the
/ less, for his early and adequate percep-
I ton Of the great national movement
! which underlies all domestic political
/ issues and is greater than any one of
/ them, Benjamin Harrison deserves IN
y stinted praise N Y sun (Dem-l.