The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-31


| mttees and the speeches, letters, etc, OF re-
publicans at different times, any sane man can
| see that sudden and unexplainable change
1 has come over the republican party, by and
! through the late action OF its new brand, new
capitalists, leaders and party governors, show
| ing most conelusvely that nothing short of
stealing something from every day, and at
| last stealing us from ourselves away, will sat
| isfy their greed. BEN t. SMITH,
| Late Second Lieutenant Company K Eleventh
Ind. Vol.
Winslow, Ind, responds thus:
Gen. A. p. Hovey:
SIR-Havlng been fed on the kind of stuff
your letter offers for the last twenty years
have become weak, and am now seeking new
/ pasture.
Your reference to the Mills bill reducing the
/ surplus so rs 10 prevent us from receiving our
| rights is a claim which do not think your in
| telligence would have warranted you in making
| had you considered the effect of the tatly-fOod
upon the soldier element for so long Neither
/ do | consider that YOU would have referred to
/ it if you had been aware, rs a man able to
/ represent district in congress should be, that
| a republican senate was going 10 submit bill
that would reduce the surplus $14,000,000 more
| than the Mills bill
| Cleveland and the Solid South is beneath the
dignity of gentleman occupying the position
you do, but when consider that a man
would leave the front and go to the rear in time
OF peril, for the purpose OF havnga star added
TO his rank, and that his undying love for the
soldier has manifested itself so lately, even
since you began 10 aspire to office, we are not
in the least surprised.
Now | am also OF the opinion that the presi-
dent and representatives to be elected, or
rather reelected, is our only hope for our
rights, for when we consider all that has been
done during the present administration we
reasonably enough suppose that more will he
done in the next -four years. IL would have been
to the interest of you and the party yOu now
represent ii you or they had done this long-de
layed justice fifteen or twenty years ago, and
spent less time and breath arguing Solid South
and soldiers rights, for such empty sounds
have failed to win this time.
The soldiers as a class have been aroused and
are determined II they are TO have nothing but
chat or expectation TO take it from the source
that you and your colleagues have always told
them that il would come from, viz: The demo-
cratic party.
Now, general, let me say in conclusion that
your official career is quite run and you
will have the remainder OF your days at home
and keep the cOlcs Of settlers lrid0Jrs of your
a0Hd iNHd az The 'POcket" and still sci TIE fishing
right rather than suffer your neighbOrs and
constituency to share in the product of that
abundant God-given element-pOnd water
With my regards, / am yours for Cleveland,
Thurman, MatsOn and the democratic ticket.
LOGAN ROBLING,
Company G, Fifty-eigbth Indiana Volunteers.
A member of Gen. Harrisons regiment,
who lives in Clayton, Ind, is not enthusi-
astic over his Old comrades nomination,
as will be seen by the following COM
munication:
| have read HOvey's harangue, or speech,
said to have been delivered in congress. |
want to warn my comrades that he Is only
playing for votes. Ii the republicans have
truly such great sympathy and love for the sol
der of the late war, why did they not legislate
Tor them so as TO give them the advantages
they now claim for them at the hands of the
democratic party? / defy any man to show any
act or law passed by republican congress
from the commencement Of the war until 1884
that did not favor the rich man more than the
poor. also will assert that the democratic
party has always been the poor mans party,
proving themselves 10 be such by always leg
islating in their favor.
| also want TO say that was soldier in the
late war from July, 1862 20 July, 1868; was a
member OF Mr.. Benjamin HarrsOn's regiment,
and know him TO be partisan.
There were men in the regiment that for the
slightest oifense he would punish, when other
parties, for committing the same offense. went
unpublished. | remember well that ne had
about twenty-five OF US put in the guard-hOuse
all night one cool chilly night in April, 1864,
Ter simply stopping on our return 10 camp,
after being out all evening engaged in a sham
battle, 10 oil a lew canteens with some pure
spring water for our messmates, as the water
in the camp was not good. | had ten canteens
to I'll. and permission from my captain TO all
them, and on returning TO the camp found that
he. in order TO catch all the boys, had formed
the regiment in line and had the roll called, q
thing he had never done before. 30 we found
comrades with bayonets on ready to march
to the guard-houSe which was miserable af-
fair, so small that not more than half OF us
could lay in il. But by the courtesy of the
guards we were permitted to lay the damp
ground out doors, and take our chance OF TAX
ing cold.
Harrison is not the poor mans friend. Any
man voting for him viii simply vote to make
himself pay more for all he has 10 buy 10 live
on, except whisky and tobacco. J. T. b.
5. B. Kimmer OF Bentonville writes:
Why does Mr.. Hovey want to give the three
months men as much as | and others who
served three years. / appreciate all work done
in the interest of the soldier, and think Matson
has done more deserving work for us than this
demagOCue HOvey has done or ever will do, judg-
ing from past records. He knows he makes a
false statement when he says Mr.. Cleveland
and congress prevents all legislation in favor
Of our comrades. What in the name of God
and humanity was he and the &. o. p. doing in
all of their twenty-fOur years OF control OF and
administration of the government? They say
the Mills bill leaves surplus 10 pay our Just
demands. Where will be the surplus ii he gives
us free whisky and tobacco, as the rotten old
platform on which he stands and advocates?
Mr.. Hovey refers in his letter to the q. A. r.
as though each post was separate republican
club. [ don't think so; but do think that the
q. a. r. is run in the interest of the e. o. D.,
but was organized with good intention. Now,
was member of the FOrty-frst regiment and
Second Indiana cavalry, and will stand shout
der 10 shoulder with enough members to snow
this man Ilovey so deep the six months of July
weather will not get him out.
From Sulphur Springs soldier gives his
opinion thus
Thanks TO the powers that be- such appeals
from demagogues of the Hovey stripe to intel
ligent readers and advocates of this enlightened
day are TO be claSsed with republican tricks of
the past When Mr. HOvey casts reflections on
President Cleveland's administration, as using
his power TO prevent legislation in favor of the
soldier, he makes himself deceiver and all
true and unpTeudiced comrades will express n
contempt for such pretended statesmen. When
j claim that our rights have been better pro-
tected and further advanced under the present
democratic administration, know that j ex-
press the opinion OF a majority of the old
soldiers and comrades of the late war. | ex-
pect to cast my vote for Cleveland and the
democratic ticket straight out.
JAMES A. BOWLING,
Co. &C" Seventy-seventh n. Y. Vols.
Mr.. Alex c. Freeman of Kokomo. in re-
viewing Hovey's war record, says:
Your bid for my vote is received and declined
/ served in the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio
and never insulted old soldier Of the old Sixth
corps who at Charlottesville and Gettysburg
was at the front while YOU sneaked to the rear
and by your own misconduct drew forth that
memorial edict from Gen. Sherman: eff the
post of honor is 10 the rear let US about face
for Washington" You say the Mills bill now
leaves us no surplus in the treasury to pay our
inst claims No Mills hill is in force. and how