Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-03-09
PUBLIC OPINION.
PRESIDENT uARR1soN's RECORD

PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's RECORD.
New York Mail and Express.
In the closing week of this Repub-
lican administration it is well TO recall
that neither the nation nor the Repub-
lican party has any reason to be ashamed
of the official record made by President
Harrison during his four years of
chieftainship.
President Harrison's administration
affords the best and strongest vindica-
tion of the principles and policies of the
Republican party. 1t has been patriotic
in purpose and upright in performance.
1t has been an administration in behalf
of all citizens, irrespective of party
predictions, and for the entire country,
irrespective of sectional divisions. Presi-
dent Harrison, in his official relations,
has been the peoples President, in a
truer sense and larger measure, than has
any Chief Magistrate since the days of
Washington. He has secured an eX-
alted and enduring place in American
political history. He has won at every
step in his administrative career,
whether in dealing with matters do
mestic or foreign, because he has been
a true, patriotic, courageous, capable
and magnanimous man in all his per-
formances of official duties and discharge
of public trusts.
On the delicate and difficult questions
of tariff, of reciprocity, of free silver,
and in handling that most intricate
problem of Chinese immigration. he has
maintained course and made record
distinguished for both courage and con-
servatism-a course and record as con
sistent as they are luminous. In all of
his mastery messages and splendid
speeches on the great national questions
and issues he has invariably exhibited
the broad craftsmanship and ferFid
patriotism that constitute him a true
and trustworthy leader.
He has advanced civil service reform
in wider application and along the
rational lines of practical and permanent
benefit. Under his sagacious and states
manlike administration the twin agents
of American progress and prosperity
Protection and Reciprocity-have in
creased employment at home, enlarged
trade abroad and advanced the income,
while they have cheapened the necessi-
ties of the people. Under his admins
tration, and for the first time in the
history of the country, our commerce
with foreign nations in the last fiscal year
exceeded 81 $1,0O0000,000, with balance
of trade in our favor amounting to $2O2,
944,442, Notwithstanding decrease of
dutiable imports amounting to Sl09,-
2S4, ,705.
Thus in all that makes for the coun-
try's security and the peoples happiness,
in the stability of the currency, in the
creation of new navy, in courageous
and generous foreign policy, strengthen
ing confidence at home and increasing
respect abroad; in the extension of in
ternal improvements, in the practical
application of needed reforms. in the
correction of old abuses and the intro
duction of new and better methods, in
all these essentials of progressive ad-
ministration and good legislation Presi-
dent Harrison will turn this government
over to other hands higher, brighter and
stronger than ever before in its history.
President Harrison will, therefore, be
always personally identified in history
with the development and practical
operation and vindication of the funda-
mental and distinctive principles and
policies of the Republican party.