The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-09-26
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What the asmoVai Of Corporal Tanner
Means- Private Dalssli Voices the opin'
ion OF the hank and File
In the Cleveland Plain Dealer OF
Monday, September gad Private
Dalzell voices ihe sentiments of The
rank and ile Of the Grand Army 10 a
communication, covering tho Just
ground OF Corporal Tanners removal
We quote from his declaration, Let
every old soldier read II and hand II 10
his eomrade Of tho old blue blouse and
rusty muaket
III have said, and ! repeat II, that up
on any grounds yet alleged ppbllelYthe
deeapltAtlOn OF the poor, legless private
who was at the head OF The pension
bureau ia uniustihable and an Insult "
every other private In the Union,
NJ say this as ono who Tor three
years wore q prlyate'R blouse,
ol say II 40 u free American eltllen,
say II aa u Republican who never
kicked or scratched,
oNOW, II that 10 treason, make the
most of itl | care nothing about policy
All / am concerned about 10 whether
II Is tho truth,
aYou and know that Corporal Tau.
nor WAS not turned out broauae he
talked fOOllahneha sometimes, IN hl
legged 10 be tho only cause for hla dls'
miahal,
"rhat ia pOppyeook,
Ulf anyone believes that Gag and lie
et him accept the ollee OF c0mmlhalon'
on of pensions aud dare 10 revoke one
OF the two fulinPa made by Tanner
namely 1. That q priyate'h oath shall
be equal to that Of his officer, man for
man, q That no penalon ahlll DO less
than a. per month, | would Ike 70 soc
the manstand up I'll he was counted
by the bOyaaiter ht reseindrd these two
orders, both OF which originated with
ColpOia Tanner and which not one OF
his predecessors ever had the sand W
establish,
/ knew Tanner last Spring Just 90
well as / do nOwi 80 did thny, every
man Of them, for he has been loud aud
blatant like themselves aud myself on
tho stump all over the North for the
Republicans ever since the war, Tan
nef with Morton, COnkling, Hayes, Gar
leld, Harrison, Beaver Foraker Blaine,
nepaw, Eylrta, yeH, away back with
ThnddGua stevens. Charlea Sumner and
Ben Wade, poor Tanner ranked with
the best Of them, aud wah everywhere
IN demand, They all knew him Then
90 well ai they do now,
/ am no eleventh hour Republican,
for loayea and llah6s, My pen and
tongue, busy for the party from child
hood to old age, thank God, are free
and uutrNmmelrd Ns the natural breez,
60 that blow around my native hills
No claim OF party policy shall ever 49,
strain me from utttHng truth 40 | see
it. Tdnntrin October, 1850, iathe same
Tanner hG was IN March, 1852,
10 me no any rate, no matter
who may defame or desert him In his
distress, The men who had put u pia'
tol bun through Corporal TannerB
hraip, would have d0no him and his
weeping wife and children less harm
than the man, whoever he was, who
falsely accused him 10 the President,
What do they take ua for who inOlnu'
ate Tanners lack Of the small braina IL
would require 10 administer that
onlcey They know better They know
II Is u lIe quite Ns well ag ! do, The
heads Of bureaus have very little TO do,
They 90 gypaing around the country 40
they have done this summer and the
clerks run the shcbang
pity Tanners successor ! curse his
pergccHtOr and ] laugh NJ my critics,
and snap my fingers IN their teeth and
asl, them for Gods sake 70 quit lying.
PRIVATE DAL2ELL,