Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-02

drawing a small pension for it, and should have had on chronic dirrhoea in with 1t, for he liked to have died with it while in the army, and never did get well of it. am satisfied that it was through weakness that he died when he did and the way he died, A MT. Dawley made the remark to his wife the day before he died that he did not be- Heve that he would not live week. He was sixty-eight years old when he died. He died October 21st, 1888. My brother, Robert L. Bradley, served through the war and was wounded twice. After the war was over he served three years in the regular army. He died few years ago of yellow fever at New Orleans when it was so bad and so many died. James W. Bradley, another brother, was wounded at. Nashville. Tenn, and made cripple for life: Cary B. Bradley, another brother, was out twice and died at home few years ago from an overdose of lsudanum. John G. Bradley, that is myself, was out and lost an eye after I came home. Now as to my mother. She was left destitute, for my father was poor man, and she has no way of making living, as she is old and inf1rm -sixty-eight years old the fall my father died. got petition for special act and had two hundred and sixty-eight names on it, and could have got as many more if had not been in such hurry to send it off, and out of the two hundred and sixty-sight men that signed it there was only two men refused to sign it. The bill passed the House twice and the Senate once and went to MT. Cleve- land, and he vetoed it. The bill before the Pension committee should never have been gotten up the way it was, for her case is bad enough in its true light. I hated it, for the people in this part of the country knew better, and I had nothing to do with it. I asked friend of mine from Wash- ington, D. O., all over how they ever come to get it in that shape. and he said that he did it; thought that he would get it bouo o1x hot k best to give or tell the truth, for knew that did not lose my eye in the army, and that there was not two shot dead on the battlefield, but there was three wound ed. Now to Mir. Foraker's speech. I think that he got it from the. record at Washington, D. C., and he had nothing to do with the getting up of the bill. Now as to my mother. She needs a pension very bad, and think that the government ought to keep her. l am 8 poor man and have had her to keep, and have had too much on me, but 1 will always do what l can to keep her out of the poorhouse. I have a family of my own. I am the post- master at this place and have been ever since MT. Key was Postmaster General and MT. Hayes was President and have always been Democrat and voted for MT. Cleve- land. I will be forty y-eight years old if I live to see the 9th day of November. l think Congress ought to change that clause
 
 just die with the disease he is drawing pen sion on; that the widow would draw right along. Their main support is gone and she cannot help it. There seems to be no trouble when big officer dies for them to pass bill right away and give her about as much for one month as they give poor private for five or six years It takes as much food to feed one as the other; and another thing, the big men when they die generally leave their family plenty to live on. Now think that have written enough and have told you the truth about it. Sorry that they have it in such 8 shape as they have. MT. J. W. Eylar has I some misstatements in the piece he published | just after MT. Foraker's speech at West Un- ! ion, Ohio. He says James W. Bradley was | the only one that was wounded, when there was three of them and one of them was | wounded twice. Now guess that had bet ter quit for fear that will wear you out read I ing my letter. Yours very respectfully,
 JOHN G. BRADLEY.