Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-31
THE VETO POWER.
Why President Cleveland Should No

Why President Cleveland Should Not Be Reelected.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: President Cleveland has exercised the veto power three times much as all the Presidents from Washington down to the Cleveland advent. Such usurpation of arbi- trary power as Congressional records convict him of, if exercised in European nations would have driven every crowned head from the throne to the bastile, and it is sufficient ground for his impeachment by Congress. But, the House of Representatives being strongly Democratic, no articles of fmpeach- ment will be presented against him. In the long string of vetoes by the President are found about 250 pension bills to disabled soldiers, which had passed both Houses of Congress-one Democratic and one Repubfi- can-thus removing them from every con- sideration of party politics and clothing each application with the sanctity of merit and justice.
 Why, then, this stepping in with the veto power to thwart the deliberate judgment of Congress, which had passed upon the merits of each application and found them worthy of government aid? Has the President giv- en any good reason for them? If 80, when, where and howl Under the circumstances are we not forced to believe that he exercised that power, because they were for Union soldiers, who fought against his partisan al- lies at the South, who control and dominate the policy of his administration
 Not having been @ soldier myself, have no personal bias to warp my judgment in their favor; but believe that the men who saved the life of this nation when the hand of the assassin was upon it's throat should be taken care of in the days of their need, and 1k ahn ha6 6rivAn In hn hOna0 or suffer by neglect in his declining years. hold this proposition to be true, that among the noblest men in this land are these who by their sacrifices for the government have been disabled from making for themselves @ home and good living.
 If these men are needing help-if the wolf is standing at the door-it is the duty of the government to respond to their call and to respond literally. To the soldier we are in debted for the government we live under with full treasury to supply its wants. To him scared and crippled in the bloody war with health sbattered-with aching bones and the inirmities of premature old age, produced by exposure and hardships in the field, in the march, in the swamp or in pris- on, the President Is indebted for the office he holds, and the salary of $5O,000 year he draws from its treasury. Thanks to the Re- publican party and to liberalized Democrats of the North, they have not been unnaindful of just claims long neglected against the gov- ernment and have endeavored to right the wrongs, only to be rebuffed and snubbed at the White House.
 If the president had been half as consider ate-half as careful-half as inquiring into his appointments to office as he claims to have been in investigating these pension bills there would to-day be fewer incompetent, unfit persons in office, and less criticism of his honesty as a partisan president. The president having deliberately kicked these pension bills out of the White house, he has insulted the soldier-insulted Congress, and insulted the nation. Perhaps the soldiers will return the compliment on election day, by voting for General Harrison, the sol dier's friend, the friend of good government, in the interest of the people and against the passage of the Mills bill. L. E. MUNsoN.