The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-19

IHE FRIEND or IHE SOLDIER.
There is 10 more baseless claim made by
the moribund Republican party than that it
has been the special friend and champion of
the Union soldier. And the irrelevant stuff
which is relied upon TO catch whatever
strength may be caught by creating false
impression upon this point belongs to the
very lowest class of campaign literature.
The Beltzhoover letter is a case in point. II
is of no consequence whatever whether such
letter was or was not written. The only
question worth considering is whether il is
or IL not true that the Democratic Congress
has been inimical to the rights of the veteran
soldiers of the Union. Upon this point the
Lancaster Pa) HfeiHgencsr says
glance at the record will show that the House Of
the Foriy-fourh Congress, by vote OF III TO 40,
passed the bill eluaizing bouniies-Garfed dodgipg
and that the Republican Senate killed It by inden-
| mite posiponement. II was the same Democratic
House which extended the time for Ming claims foi
additional bounty from January 20, 1875, to July
| lssh II was the same Democratic House which put
that gallant Union soldier from ohio. General A. V.
Rice into the direction Of the general bill providing
pay for arrears Of pensions which WAS strenuousi,
| the floor. When the bill finally passed the Demo
cratic House by Democratic votes It was given ~
quieus IN the Republican Senate on June 10, 1875,
another Democratic House passed another aTrear'
Of pensions b and though It refused 10 Testor,
To Its privileges old soldiers Of the War Of 1879, who
had served IN the rebel army, It was passed by Demo-
cratic votes, and only passed the Senate after
perate Republican effort To defeat postpone IT, Th'
| Democratic iIouse, with rare promPtnoss appro-
prated the money required 10 carry II out and de-
caTed tho meaning Of the statute To be the grant aF'
| Of - pensions on account Of soldiers who were en-
listed drafted for the service In the Of the
| bellIon but died or incurred disability from Caus'
originating after the cessation OF hosllitles and beor
being mustered out
| When the war broke out there were In the souti
| some old soldiers Of the War OF 1912. who oi
| the pension rolls. and they at struck OF
From the nature Of the case, foryeight years afte
their SERVICE they could not have been very active II
the Rebellion. Be that as II may, In 1870, sixty-fou
years after their original service In the war agans
England, 1t was proposed to restore their pension, no
10 them, 10 pay them FOR the time during the con
tiuuance Of the Rebellion but 10 their widows an,
orphans That humane aud patriotic proposition wa
| opposed by the Republicans Garfield name eadin,
all the rest. The Democratic House passed It, TN
| Republican Senate killed It. II was finally passed II
the next Congress- only twenty Republicans daring L
| yute against IT, Garfield dodgng again.
| II WAS a Democratic House which upon the pottiOl
OF many soldiers passed bill 10 protect thom from
sharks aud sharpers by making their land warrant
rcliustcad of personal property. Republican Sena
| snuthorel the hin.
II was a Democratic House, with the 80 Confederate
Drlgadlers ~ IN IT, which gave malmed soldiers TN
right artificial limb every hye years at the pub
lie expense passing the Dlll against the efforts Of Re
publican Senators 10 enasculate II Of It's most vita
I provisions
n ,yas "A urmOcratIc House which urlsuated the bll