St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-05
HARRIsoN,s APPLICATION.

1t is again announced, and this time
with semblance of good authority, that
eX-President Harrison has thrust aside
any ambition he may have had to again
become the candidate of his party for
president of the United States, and has
made Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio, the heir
to the little boom he possessed. The
chairman of the Indiana Republican
committee has been on visit TO Colum
bus to arrange all the details of the
transfer, and hereafter all friends of the
eX-president will be expected to put
their shoulders to the wheel of the Nc
Kinley wagon and assist it through mud
and mire that may obStruct the road to
the White House. 1t is positively an
uounced that MIR. Harrison will under
no circumstances be candidate for the
nomination. He is weary of political
strife and prefers to eni his days in
some dignitied pursuit that shall be con-
genial to his tastes and in keeping with
his position as former chief magis-
trate of great nation.
The entire country will approve of
Gen. Harrison's determination. He Will
carry with him through life the best
wishes of a vast majority of our people,
for while he was not brilliant or eX-
ceptionally wise president. he was not
the worst official of that sort we nave
had. And our presidents as a rule have
been men whom the nation delights TO
honor. Nearly all of them have been
honest and patriotic men. Some have
had mistaken policies-policies that
have been repudiated and condemned
in later years--but these have in most
instances been thrust upon them by I'M
wise or INSCRIPTIONS partisan leaders.
Too much adherence to partisanship
has been the only bane of our eXecu-
tives in the past.
The transfer of the Harrison goods
and chattels to Mckinley will be apt to
give that astute politician a decided
advantage over his competitors. Nc
Kinley is an aggressive man, and, like
Others of that disposition, has attracte d
many adherents. They admire his pluck
and his fighting qualities, even though
they may not agree fully with his views
at all times. He is model leader for
stuff that is required in the leader of
forlorn hope. His phenomenal run in
Ohio last fall attests his popularity at
home. Besides, he is the recognized
leader of the protection cause in the
nation. If the revised tariff shall prove
failure in any essential partlcular-if
it shall fail to restore conditions of pros
perity to the working and trading
clasSes-the fact Will be accepted by a
vast majority of the people as an evil
dence of the wisdom of the Mckinley
law. He will, of course. suffer if it shall
he demonstrated that the crowDing work
of his congressional career has been
improved upon, but yet there will be
many excuses, and specious ones, too,
for the fact.
Viewed in the light of present indica-
tons, there is but one obstruction in
the pathway of AIcKinley's ambition
for the Republican presidential NOM
ination. At present it is like cloud,
no bigger than mans hand. 1t hovers
over Maine, and in form very much re-
sembles the eXspeaker Of the house of
representatives, Thomas Bracket Reed.
The Maine man has had abundant op-
portunity of late to promote his presi-
| Gentia! prospects without seeming to
thrust himself into the public view. He
has been the chosen leader of the oppo-
nents of the Wilson tariff bill. and his
management of that campaign, although
unsuccessful, has demonstrated his
sagacity and his fighting qualities. From
the first his cause was known to be
hopeless. yet he maintained a vigorous
defense until the last, harassing the
enemy's outposts at every exposed
point. and firing volleys of CALLING ora
torical shot into their ranks. He did
not seek to defeat the measure. for he