Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-28

The organs favoring Gest have been
asking the soldier element TO support
him because he has been their friend,
whereas the more the matter has been
looked into the more shiflless the actions
OF this man appear. When not shiftless
he has been laundering. When not
laundering he hiss been Indifferent. When
not Indifferent he has been outrageous in
his treatment of his constituents.
The american Tribune. a paper pub,
lished in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the
interests of the soldier. has this 20 say
concerning Mr.. Gest in its issue of NJ arch
2Sth. this year:
Representative Gest. of Illinois, il tro
duced bill in the house to give lump
sum OF money as sort of bounty u
each volunteer soldier on the following
basis: To those who served over ninety
days and less than one year, fifty del.
lars; over one year and less than two
years, one hundred dollars; over TWO
years and less than three years, one hun
dred and fifty dollars, and so on to the
end of the string. In the language OF
''Sockrstees." we enquire of our dearly
beloved congressman as We test the as
ticity OF our lower left eye-lid. DO you
see anything green?
This is simply a scheme to throw dirt
in the eyes of the veterans. to cause
those who have no more sense than &c
believe that the passage of such q law
would not retard other and better pens on
laws, to jump at the idea that they would
| have II just as well rs not. and therefore
| demand it. to confuse aud divide them to
| such an extent that when the ses
sions are closed the represen a.
tives in giving an account o.
their stewardship csn explain. VIII
some show of truth. You yourselve!
were so divided on what YOU want tia
we dared not act The editor of ihi
paper has been fOrcibly aod pointed,
told by congressman that the big difficul
| ty in legisIating for the veterans is tht
fact that that they are not able to deter.
mine just what the veterans want.
| there seems To be a boom to the servic
| pension measures in cong ess, the friend
| Of II dependent pension law rush forwart
with frantic gestures, aud cry. 'holl
thst is not what We want" Ii the d.
penden' pension measures receive An All
ing on the floors of congress the servic
| pensionltes commence to grind the
knives for scalps. Now comes Represent
alive Gest with his misconceived kind
ness and dumps another demorsliZing e
ement into the fracas. For pity SAX
| stop il. Let the veterans agree lie
them stand firm in the JUS ice of their re
quests, and not be drawn off and divide
by various measures introduced for th
sole purpoee of delay.
Aud to show how the soldiers thin
about Gest's treatment of them in othe
places. the ARGUS published en- Saturda
the remarks of tie Monmouth y0urnd
which we here reproduce:
Why did Mr.. Gest vote for the depend
ent pension bill instead of the servic
pension bill? The soldiers of this distrit
want law passed to give pension I
all honorsbly discharged union soldier
and sailors. and Mr.. Gest voted for bi
which will not give the old heroes pei
sion until they become psupers. A mic
way to treat the soldiers certainly.
Mr.. Gest had the interest of the soldi,
at heart he would not want them to bt
come psupers before he would see thel
pensioned enough to repay them for
few of the hsrdships they encountered
defense of the country. Mr.. Gest pride
himself in his vote for bill that classt
pensioners as psupers. but when eiectio
day comes he will find that the soldier
do not sanction his work