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Show BENJAMIN HARRISON. When has a more dignified character stood before the American people as a candidate for president than Benjamin Harrison? When has there been a man who in his ancestry, in his career, in his administration of high office and in his domestic life, better typified the ideal gentleman and statesman? The Republican party has no reason to apologize for its candidate. The Democratic party has no reason to assail as-sail him. As a result the personality of Benjamin Harrison is not as prominent prom-inent before the people today as it ought to be, and it is a good thing to occasionally bring it to mind. It is the fashion to affect contempt for ancestry, but who would not be proud to belong to the aristocracy of brains of which Harrison is so clearly a member? His great-grandfather sat in the Continental congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. His grandfather was president of the United States. His father was a distinguished dis-tinguished member of congress. He has himself sat in the senate and the White house. When it ia added that with all this distinction his family has i ' i. never oeen ricn, we Deiieve every American will concede that the Harrisons Harri-sons have a mo6t honorable strain of Hood, and that everybody shares in the pride of it. In his oareer from poverty to the highest distinction. President Harrison Harri-son has exemplified the best qualities of the American mind. He has fought his way inch by inch. He has paid for his honors with the gold coin of hard work. We do not believe any president has ever conducted an administration upon a higher ideal than has Harrison. We do not believe any has ever felt more keenly his obligations to the people, or more constantly sought to preserve the happiness and good name of the country. coun-try. Certainly none have exceeded him in unselfish industry or courtesy to his opponents. Iu his domestic life Benjamin Harrison Har-rison is the ideal American husband and father. Scandal has never touched bis name, and the wife of his youth has never blushed for him in private or public life. This is the man who stands today as the candidate of the great Republican party. Thoroughly in love with its principles, he is yet a type of broad Americanism at its best. He can afford victory or defeat. Neither will elevate him or degrade him. It is the country that will be the loser if he fails of reelection, re-election, and we are happy to believe I that no each calamity is impending. |