Review of reviews and world's work . w Reid, editor of the New York Trib-une, as Republican vice-presiden-tial candidate is peculiarly inter-esting in view of the fact thatjust twenty years ago Mr. Reidspredecessor, Horace Greeley, wasa presidential nominee. Mr. Reidenjoys the confidence and respectof the country, and his servicesas minister to France have broughthim new and well-earned vice-presidency is a positionof the gravest importance, andMr. Reid would be fully equal toany emergency that might com-pel him to assume the Presidentsresponsibilities. The President of theGive Us U
Review of reviews and world's work . w Reid, editor of the New York Trib-une, as Republican vice-presiden-tial candidate is peculiarly inter-esting in view of the fact thatjust twenty years ago Mr. Reidspredecessor, Horace Greeley, wasa presidential nominee. Mr. Reidenjoys the confidence and respectof the country, and his servicesas minister to France have broughthim new and well-earned vice-presidency is a positionof the gravest importance, andMr. Reid would be fully equal toany emergency that might com-pel him to assume the Presidentsresponsibilities. The President of theGive Us United States, unlessCampaign, his conduct has for-feited it, is, by virtueof his office, entitled to the respect of the en-tire cotmtrj, and it is agreed by members of allparties that Mr. Harrison is personally worthy of es-teem and confidence. Moreover, the candidates selected for the Presidency by great parties ought always to bepresumed to possess character and ability, and thenations own^ self-respect should forbid a campaign of. HON. WHITELAW REID, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. disagreeable personalities so far as Thebattle should lie between parties rather than candi-dates. These pages will have gone to the press beforethe result of the Democratic convention has been G48 THE REVIEW OF REI^/EIVS. kno\\Tii; but it is safe to predict that the campaignwill be ^ very severe stt-uggle. There should be afii-mresolve on all sides to make it clean, fair and honor-able. Mr. Ingalls, with his proclivity for epigrammaticstatements, once remarked that the Decalog-ue andthe Sermon on the Mount have no place in om- prac-tical politics. He did not mean, as he has often beenstupidly accused of meaning, that moral rules andChristian principles ought to be disregarded in politi-cal hfe, but that, in point of fact, they are to a greatextent ignored and despised. If that be true, thenthis is exactly the time when something should bedone about it. Mr. Porters statistics of
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