The Jasper Weekly Courier

The Indiana Republican Convention.
The recent proceedings at Indianapolis afford convincing proof that Mr. Morton knows how to run a convention. They had 1,900 delegates on hand, a long ten-plank platform, six nominations, several speeches, a little balloting and whirlwinds of enthusiasm, enough to occupy the whole time, and yet Mr. Morton put them through in two hours and ten minutes by a stop-watch. The honest farmers who were in attendance on the proceedings must have felt their hay-seed-besprinkled heads swim at the velocity with which they were whirled in two opposite directions at the same time, without injury to the machine. The affirmation that the salary-grab, the Sanborn contracts, the Credit Mobilier corruption and the District scandals were to be cherished with pride, because they showed that the Republican party could reform abuses as rapidly as its members could perpetrate them, was a master performance. The farmer can chaw on that till election day without injuring its texture more than if it were a hotel beefsteak. Then notice how neatly, though not gaudily, the President's honesty and Mr. Morton's orthodoxy are both hooped in within the frail circumference of one resolution. The final utterance means that, by going for inflation, Mr. Morton has represented the true Republican faith, as it is held in Indiana, for which he deserves thanks, while the President's veto was dictated by an honest mistake; but the casual reader would hardly infer that. Altogether, Mr. Morton's convention was neatly managed. There was none of that lack of harmony so frequently displayed on such occasions; neither, on the other hand, were things cut and dried and all the work monopolized by a few leaders. There was a fair division of labor. Mr. Morton furnished the candidates and resolutions, and the one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five delegates found the whirlwinds of applause, and all successful conventions are constructed on this principle. Mr. Logan, if he will take the advice of his friend and well-wisher, the Globe, will go and sit at the feet of the Hoosier Gamaliel and learn from him how to run conventions. A pupil so apt that in two weeks, as he himself has assured us—mastered the whole science of finance at which Bagehot, Walker, Chevalier and other bunglers have stumbled for a life-time, should have no difficulty in picking up the science of wire-pulling as a fine art, uncongenial as the subject may be.
—St. Louis Globe (Republican.)