The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-14

Grover Cleveland W. sally Ann bradley
During the present term Of Congress
the pro tenn. President OF the United
States has vetoed serenty.nine bills over
the heads OF both branches of the Gov
ernment's legislative body. One Of the
great cries of the Democratic party is
mo Capitalization" and yet this Demo-
cratic Executive has assumed q Zone
man power" such as has never been ex-
ercsed by any President before-has as
serted his veto power probably more fire..
quently than it has been used by all pre-.
ceding Presidents put together.
This exercise of power has been used
once to kill the "Desmoines River Land
Bill" once to defeat a bill to make a
port of entry at Omaha, Nebraska, once
to defeat bill to the same effect at
Springfield, Massachusetts, once to stop
the erection of public buildings at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, once to do the same at
Dayton, Ohio, once to do likewise at
Sioux City, Iowa, and once to stop some
local measure at Washington, D. G. The
remaining seventy.three bills vetoed by
this great reformer have been special
pension bills. twill be noticed that he
has vetoed no bills passed for sending
money to any Southern State. In this
he shows his genuine Democracy.
Among the pension bills vetoed was
one granting eight dollars per month to
Sally Ann Bradley. Her husband and
four of her boys were Union soldiers.
Two OF the boys were shot dead on the
battlefield, another had his arm torn off
by a shell, and the fourth lost an
eye. Her husband was in the oath
Ohio-a fighting regiment, as Burch
Foraker's friends can tell you, and after
wards was in the ranks of the 18th Ohio,
and fell, terribly wounded, in "Pap
Thomas" fight before Nashville. He
lived, however, and drew pension un-
til 1880 of four dollars a month, when
worn out with wounds and premature
old age he went to camp upon the other
shore. His wife, Sally Ann, was poor,
her boys were disabled and could not
support her, and she was sent to the In
firmary. She applied for pension, but
the law would not allow it, as it could
not be proven that the old soldiers
death was caused solely by his wounds.
His old commanding general, G. H.
Grosvenor, who had seen him fall at
Nashville, introduced into Congress a
bill to grant hera special pension. This
bill passed both houses, Republicans,
Democrats and ex.Confederates voting
for it, and then the big-bellied Buffa-
loafer, who draws fifty thousand dollars
year for such work, vetoed the bin, and
the woman who gave her husband and
her four sons to her country is left to
die in the poor-house! This is economy,
this is reform! for in such two-penny
business is our President putting in his
time.
His excuse is that the law does not
grant pensions in such cases, but does
not Congress make the laws? If it has
the right to grant pensions to thousand
and tens ofthousands of soldiers in gen.
eral bill, has it not the right and power
to pass special bill in cases not cov-
cred by the general law! It's enough to
make a wooden Indian blush to own to
such President! There is not an ex.U Un.
ion soldier in the United States who is
not head and shoulders above such
Chief Magistrate, and Sally Ann Brad.
ley is more entitled to fifty thousand
dollars year than is Grover Cleveland.
She gave her husband and her children,
whilst he sent substitute to the army
to risk life far more noble than is his.
Twenty-four years ago a Union
General with twelve thousand fresh
troops lay all day within sight of Pope's
fighting, struggling, beaten, driven, van
quished army. Order after order was
sent him to 60 into action, but sulking
over the removal of his General.in. Chief,
he moved not foot, nor did his COM
mand fire gun through all those weary
hours. Had he obeyed orders,
or like soldier marched to the sound
of the enemy's guns he would have
struck the flank of the rebel army of
Northern Virginia and crushed that
army to atoms. He was dismissed in
disgrace from the service, and had he
received his deserts would have been
hanged by drum.head court martial to
the nearest dogwood tree for treason.
Let it be remembered that on the rery day
on arhich Grover Cleveland retoed Sally Ann
Bradley's pension for eight dollars a month,
this economical, "Reform" President signed
a bill granting to FITz JOHN PORTER the
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