The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-10-20
The Way a Cleveland Organ Describes the
Union Veterans.
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The Way a Cleveland Organ Describes the
Union Veterans.
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We claim the following facts, which we defy
any Northern paper to successfully deny:
First. There was hungry. thieving band of
murderers and cuttbroats which came into this
country and burned homes; stole all that was
in sight; took little keepsakes from despalrng
mothers when they were in tears because OF the
sad tidings of their sons butchery; that they
ravished women, white and black and went
rejoicing on the burned black path which was
afterward made red with human blood.
Second. That officers who had these red
handed murderers under them gave explicit
orders that they should steal and burn-and
with such letters of marque-broader and more
liberal than any pirate of the high seas ever
held-thcy stole virtue and innocence with as
much freedom as they robbed hen house.
Third. That after the war was over; after
the brave boys in blue were killed, that thou
sands to-day are impersonating the brave boys
and drawing pensions for diseases contracted
in houses of ill-repute, and contracted 20 years
after the war has closed and the world knows
ended.
Fourth. That these same bummers and plum
derers have sworn falsely, aud the facts are
known by the Republican Administration; that
the policy of the Administration is to use the
Pension Bureau as a bride and sop to catch
votes for the grand old party, and that finally
men have been placed Oh tho pension rolls who
were never in war; who never smelled real
powder and who to-day would take to the
woods if the country was in peril.
These are the homeless facts. And the Globe,
representing the honesty of the South-know
ing that Republican domination means more of
the petty larceny, grand larceny, and common
theft burglary, and perhaps worse propose to
insist that We are through with this miserable
business.
Brave Grover Cleveland slapped tho hungry
horde of dirty and scoundrely rascals in the
face. The fellows who were lousy and fol-
lowed in the wake of the brave boys shot down
had no place with him; the beas.ly human
bats and vampires who preyed upon helpless
women he refused to award he struck the
whole crowd blow in the face and the beg
gars whom he slapped are to-day telling and
chuckling in fiendish glee about the wreck and
ruin they wrought in this once fair Southland
the home of culture, and where the ladies aud
gentlemen were born.
The Globe is being criticised for its plain and
truthful tales; but what boots it? We pro-
pose to tell the truth about the miserable cor
morants; about the devilsh scamps and disease
stricken outcasts who oday extort money from
the Government under the pretext that they
were soldiers.
In the history of the world no Nation ever
before rewarded thieves for their sneaking pro.
clivites and named it valor.
Brave Grover Cleveland is the man to lead
the South. He kicked the lousy rascals ia the
bosom of their pantaloons, and then slapped
them in the face. And he served 'em right.
He did not propose to pension beggars and
sneak thieves.
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Brave Gcover Cleveland who hired a fool rs
his substitute, knowing that he was a more
valuable man, will always be held in high es-
teen by the Solid South, and old Dixie will
give him whooping majority next November.