Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-08-21
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE

EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
AMERICAN HOUSE.. BosToN, Mass,
August ID. ls9O-This is dated the 18th
because the time is the 18th, it being an
hour or two after the noon of night of
the 18th, which has been the big
gest day that Boston ever saw. as big and
torturous a. Boston is and covered as she
is with the glories Of the American Revo-
luton, | had the distinguished honor 10
be interviewed today by representative
of the Journal, which understand is
considered the aristocratic newspaper of
Boston. He simply desired TO learn what
a Washington editor thought of the DAYS
parade and told him, truthfully. 1t was
the greatest day the Union Army has
seen since that day upon which Sher-
mans ragged and bronzed legions with
their tattered battle flags marched
through the national capital. down its
great Pennsylvania avenue to the music
of victory and mid the peans and plaud-
/ It's of the public. | shall not undertake
TO say-not having seen the morning pa
pers' estimates as to the number of men
in line, but post after post and depart
ment after department OF the Grand
Army marched the length OF famous
Washington. Royalston, Columbus and
other streets, and the time consumed in
passing given point was from 1890 in
the morning until o'clock in the after
noon. But besides the Grand Army
posts were ZOO Sons OF Veterans, and all
were reviewed by President Harrison
from one great stand surrounded by men,
bers Of his administration and thousands
OF friends, and from another stand by
Commander in Chief General Russell A.
Alger will be the successor Of Benjamin
Harrison for president, and IL
you had seen all the people
who yelled themselves hoarse today as he
rode at the head Of the column until he
reached his stand, and all the thousands
of decorated "boys in blue who cheered
as II they were young again and were
cheering a favorite general in the days Of
'6l-'65, you would have thought that
they alone are enough TO elect him.
Added to these, however. are those sons
OF theirs, who today look as did the ar
mics that went forth TO battle in the days
when their fathers wore their badges.
-.
1t is truth that so far as the Grand
, Army and all its auxiliaries are concern
, ed there is no such thing known in their
organization as partisan politics, and II
is fact which their rules and regula-
, tions will emphasize that any man will be
incontinently fired" from the Grand
/ Army quicker for attempting to use the
: organization for political purposes than
for any other one thing-indeed. IL is not
3 allowable for partizan politics to be men,
r toned in Grand Army meeting-yet II
: is plain enough to any person Of reason
that personally and individually the
4 Grand Army is largely composed Of re-
Q publicans, this for the same reason that
q large majority Of any other organiza.
ton at the north is republican, when the
: individual members are personally polled
q but II does not follow, therefore, that an,
C Of those organizations are instituted fol
political purposes, and when you hear o
anyone saying that the Grand Army o.
any Of its auxiiaries are great politica
= machines you may feel certain that h
9 lies maliciously or with unpardonabl
Il ignorance. Notwithstanding all this
:. however, it is plain today that the Gram
i Army Of the Republic, personally and un
is officially. favors Russell A. Alger TO
e president, aud OF these thousands o
l. democrats in the order feel the same way
Ne And the Grand Army of the Republi
j. holds To-Day the balance of power in thi
" nation when it chooses to act as unit a
OIL the polls. Upon this hypothesis ! pre-
e dictate the assertion that Russell A. Alge
Ia who, by the way. is warm friend o
II Washington state. will be the next presi
II dent of the United States.
10 =.
r have heard in my day and oeneratio
Ell some vicious. uncalled for and unwar
lr ranted expressions against the organlza
4 tion known a. "Sons of Veterans. bu
: the only thing have ever heard that ha
IN pretense of excuse was that I'll keeps u
re the animosities Of the war" There isno
to one single scintilla Of truth in the sugges
e. tion. ANY American patriot who coul
Of have seen that body, or rather It's repre-
i sentative, marching here today, woul
IN have said to himself There goes the re
U public's safety for this generation