The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-14

ycdio idttI was SlduueslCu' LIZ Nee'' :"
bright scholar, with mind that adapt
ed itself readily to discipline.
| The outbreak of the civil war soon
dragged him from the life of the citizen
to that of soldier. Governor Morton
| in July, 1862, asked him to assist in re-
| cruiting a regiment under the presi-
| dents call for 100000 three-year troops.
He received the first commission for
| the Seventeen regiment, and, as second
| lieutenant, he soon raised Company A,
was made captain, helped to fill up the
other companies of the regiment, and in
less than month had completed it and
| was at it's head as colonel, ready to go
| to the front.
| The Indiana republicans reelected
| Colonel Harrison reporter Of the SUI
| preme court of the state in October,
| 1864, and when he returned after the
war he resumed that office. In 1858 he
again took up the practice of law, and
| from that time was out of politics until
| 1S76-the memorable political year when
| Tiden and Hendricks on the one side
and Hayes and Wheeler on the other
| contended for the chief offices of the re-
| public.
| ~
diana. Indiana was an October state,
and the whole country for weeks was
! hanging in suspense upon the result
there. for every one realized 1T would
have great bearing on the result in
| November. Godlove S. Orth, who had
| for some time been a member of the
house of representatives, was the re-
publican candidate for governor. A
| few weeks before the election scandals
centering around Orth were brought to
public attention. The republicans at
once realized it would be a losing game
to keep Orth in the field, and the repub-
| lican central committee substituted
General Harrison in his place while
the latter was absent from the state.
The democratic candidate was known
as blue Jeans Williams, who was a
homely, honest kind of a fellow, but
whose main reputation rested upon the
SIS suit of clothes which he wore for an
indefinite period.
Indiana has perhaps never been the
scene of a more hotly contested cam
D ign than on this occasion. There is
no question that the name and the re-
pute of General Harrison were worth
thousands of votes to the republican
party. If the republicans could not win
with him they could not win with any
one. This was the general sentiment,
and it was conceded on both sides that
If Harrison was elected governor In Oc-
tober Hayes and Wheeler would carry
the state in November. In that event
there would have been no contest over
the presidency, no electoral commission
and none of the intense strain and pit
teSness which pervaded the whole coun-
| try for three months after election day
| in November. The blue cotton trousers
undoubtedly tipped the balance over on
the democratic side, but 1T was a COM
paratively close contest, after all, and
1t was several days before the country
knew that Williams had beaten Harri-
son for governor of Indiana by only
| (. 1884 votes in the enormous ballot which
was cast.
! This campaign made General Harri-
son national character, and from the
DAYS of 1875 he was in the public mind
| of his state and of the country. In 1880
he was elected to the Senate Of the
United States and took his seat March
4. 1881. Mr.. Garfield. who on the same
day was inaugurated president, had
rendered to Mr.. Harrison any position
| in his cabinet except that of secretary
! of state. which had been pre-empted by
Mr. Blaine. Mr.. Harrison preferred the
career opened before him in the Senate
and declined. He served his whole. term
in the Senate and was then succeeded
by Judge David Turpie, a democrat.
General Harrison went out OF the Senate
A mr. tnIy .Io1n G. New.
the proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal,
and others of his particular admirers went
to work to secure for him the presidential
nomination In 1885, In June of that year,
when the Republican National convention
conyehed at Chicago Mr.. New appeared 1T
the head Of the Indiana delegation tcaim-
ing from the moment he landed In Chicago
that General Harrison would be nomi-
mated. His utterances were at first con-
sidered as mere boasts and as amounting
to little As it turned out afterward the
personality of General Harrison had made
much more impression upon the delegates
than was dreamed of. When Blaine was
out of the field the most prominent can
didate was John sherman. MI. sherman
ton and It is an absolute fact his disap-
pointment almost broke his heart, and he
was never the same man after the New
York delegation by It's maneuyering, Sc
son. 1t has always been supposed Mr.
New gave them some assurances which
could not be obtained rom the Sherman
management That Mr.. News services
were appreciated was shown in the little
fact of his appointment to the Consul-gen-
era)ship at London, the most profitable Of
flee In the gift of the Executive.
The carrying into effect of the modfca-
ton of the tariff ordered by the Fifty
second Congress was the leading work of
his government.
On the silver question President Harri-
son, toward the close of his term of office,
stated his opinion as being distinctly in IA
vor of what may be termed modified BIZ
metallism, and advocated such a policy as
would continue the use of silver In orr
currency" and at the same time provide
against the dangers to he dreaded from
the difference In the bullion value of the
gold and the silver dollar"
The subject of reciprocity likewise en-
gagged the serious attention of President
Harrison and his advisers.
The disruption OF friendly relations with
Chile as the result Of the Baltimore affair
was the one threatening incident in the
foreign relations of the Harrison admins
tration. Fortunately no unhappy conse-
The relations with Great Britain during
the Harrison administration were not
wholly satisfactory owing to compllca-
lions growing out of the Behring seal
fisheries. These Issues were finally com
mitted to arbitration.
One thing for which General Harrison
criticized was the signing of the Silver
bill, which Cleveland afterward called Con-
gress together to repeal. 1t is known that
friends in Congress not to force him to
swallow this bitter dose, and he even went
so far as to threaten Il veto. 1t was, how
ever so patched M as to receive his sigma