The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-12
DALzELL ON GROVER,
THE PRESIDENTS AMUSEMENT
Over yStoInE Pension. .Bllls-Hls Contempt
Oftho sunerinss of the Noble men who
Saved the UnIon-The HeartIess
HIlarIty of his Messages.

saved lhe uhiOn-The HenTtless
HIlarIty of his Messages.
Correspondence or fths IatslItgaaesr,
CALDWELL, o., July liza variety Of
opinions have been offered as to the Pres.
ident's motive in vetoing SO many private
pension bills, For one, do not believe
1t Ia douselther out Of adesire for retrench-
ment and reform, nor as an act OF Justice,
pure and simple; but rather that 1t ia q
shrewd trick to increase his popularity at
the South and among the Democrats OF
the South who hate the soldiers OF the
Union with q mortal hatred that can never
die. Its supreme object Ia to make the
Solid South as solid for him In 1888 as In
1884, and so secure the denomination. It
is q daring stroke Of policy, and does more
credit TO his brain than to his heart, and,
confess, when viewed merely as an cleo.
tionseriug move 1t is the brightest and
most iarseeing adventure ever before
witnessed at the White House. He lam,
poous the men who did our fighting, the
pirates ot the army, ridicules their dis.
eases and wounds and cracks Jokes even
over the graves OF our heroic dead. The
Merry Monarch OF England never sported
more lightly with the iolbles Of his fami-
lieFs in that dlss0lute reiga than Grover
Cleveland does now with the misiortunes
and mlseries OF the Union soldier who
dares to ask the Government for pension.
What kind OF heart tho man must
possess who can find an subject OF ridi-
oule and wit In the MANNED and quivering
limbs Of an old cavalryman, or who eau
lightly Joke and laugh over the wasted
and PROSTATE body OF the victim OF An
dersonyille and Belle Isle, or write with
playful raillery and stupid Coarssness OF
illustration concerning the soldier suffer-
ing from chronic dlarrh9a incurred In |
the swamps OF the South defending the |
flag, passes all understanding, shocks |
every sense OF propriety and deCency, and |
makes the man who wears such Callous |
heart In his bosom as anything in the |
world but statesman or a patriot, and |
something worse than q monster-a brute |
and fend
Such lack Of sympathy with suffer.
ing humanity, such inasnsibility to the
claims Of patriotic service, such awful and |
stupid, Grotesque and beastly display Of
coarseness, and such indifference 10
public opinion, never were as conspicu-
ously displayed In the United States be-,
fore, and let US hope that when this
heartless man retires from the office he
has thus degraded and dlsgraCed, it will |
be forever impossible to occur anywhere
agal1.
CONTEMPT OF THE SOLDIER.
Ifany preacher, even Bsecher or Tai.
II nRfnF aNkFnnu N |
public speaker anywhere In the loyal
tempt Of the Union soldier, living or dead,
as this man has shown by his shameless
messages, they would be hooted down aud
mobbed by an outraged pabllc. No man
Is permitted to make light OF those sacred
subjects,and whoever is bold enough toat.
tempt 1t will soon feel the full measure OF
popular wrath and resentment. 1t re.
quires coarse nature, and mean one at |
that, one long debased by evil habits and
vile associations, to prepare man for
making fun Of the mistortunes and die.
eases Of mankind; but ten times lower
must that mau descend In moral OBJ.
llquity before he can find a source OF mer.
riment In the agonies, the privations and
prayers Of stricken soldiers, starving wo.
men and children and the groans OF the
patriotic dead He repsls the soldier
staggering 10 the grave under load OF dis.
ease, poverty and distress, and answers bis
appeal for charity with tiendish leer and
laugh that would diahonor the heart Of
hell.
Cleveland Is dull man. He was never
known To joke before. He never was sus.
peCted Of having either wit or humor; but
suddenly he becomes as merry as a lark,
and dashes of pasquinades at poverty,
puns at patriotism, jokes at disease; and
death, and In the wall OF the widow and
the cry oil the orphan finds sources OF |
amusement and even laughter aud fun. II |
is all merry subject to him, and with
his coat of and his sleeves rolled up he
fairly reyels in the luxury OF enjoyment
he finds In moCking misery and railing at |
distress. He knows what he is up to. II |
Ia a smart trick. He hates the soldier,
The bulk Of the House, the minority In
the Senate, and all the Democrats, North
and South, hate the Union soldier. He ia
making hiHself solid with the solid South,
and with every traitorous copperhead In
all the North by degrading and denouncing
the crippled and impoverished veterans Of
the Union.
cLEyRIAND's AIM.
He does not reckon without his host.
II Is a stroke Of statesmanship intended
to secure the denomination, and 1t will
succeed. The Democratic party does not
10 back on the President who dares TO put
In words and send out officially the hatred
and contempt for the Grand Army OF tho
Republic, which have so long rankled
like poison In all Democratic hearts. JET.
terson Davis could not do worse to US II be
were President to-day. How much lower
could any rebel descend than To make
sport Of the deceased and dying soldier OF
the Union.
The heart Of the Duke Of Alya or even
Of Caligula himself might well relsnt be.
lore II would permit such an exhibition Of
brutality as TO make o joke Of suffering,
poverty and distress.
No President ever did so before. II
would have cost any one Of them his life