News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-22

ton of the ex-COnfederates states, and
declares that protection lis job
from one end to the other, the more
| ubiquitous because, while levying
tribute upon the masses for the bene-
fit of the classes, it is supplemented
by steadily increasing pension list,
lOoting the treasury to the tune of
one hundred and fifty millions a year,
two-thirds of which go to the support
of coffee coolers, and camp-follOwers,
and other red-nosed patriots, that
loaf about the doggeries and brothels
of the country, ultimate aggraman-
ism,' as corrupt and cOrrupting as
ever existed in the world"
The above is a joint attack on the
manufacturer as well as the disabled
soldier, to whom this country owes
its greatness and prosperity, and this
discharge of rebel bile and venom
only means that the eX-Confederate
have become desperate and now con-
slider themselves strong enough to
| throw aside the masks under which
| they have been masquerading since
| the war and now propose to attack
| the entire pension system of the coun-
try. These eX-Confederates dislike
Observation-Disclosures because it has
filled the Northern states with manu-
factories, which furnish work to intel
ligent free labor at better wages than
can be obtained in any other country
in the world, and this class are not in
sympathy with the anti-progressive
and unrepentant Rebels of the South
who have refused to accept the re-
suits of the war and have been sulk-
ing and snarling ever since. They
denOunce the men who periled their
lives to save this Union as " treasury
looters,' "coffee coolers" "camp
followers" "red-nosed PATRIOTS"
that loaf about doggeries and hotels
ofthe country, "perjuries," etc. There
is not one word in condemnation of
the men who fought over four years
to destroy this government, and
were guilty of the highest crime
known TO the laws of the nation, and
now assume to be the special champ
ions of the constitutions and the
laws.
Mr.. Watterson proceeds: 1.-THE
Democratic party can gain nothing
by making wry faces and throwing
harmless tufts of grass at this Re
publican Robber Tariff and this Re
publican Robber Pension List. 1t
has everything to gain by the integ-
| rity of its convictions, and the cOur-
| age thereof The administration of
Grover Cleveland stands as a monu-
ment of unfagging devotion to the
interests of the people and implaca-
bic hostility to the assaults of the
looters."
This great apostle of reform grows
holder and continues The cry of "stop
thief" He is attempting to charge
the Union center and thereby deceive
the Veteran soldiers by diverting at
tention from their attempt to flank
our forces, but that is an old trick
that did not work well during the
war and will not succeed now. Wat
terson's advance and attack has de-
velOped the plans of the enemies of
the Union soldiers and the men who
whipped their friends in the field.
The eX-union Soldiers are familiar
with Grover Cleveland's hostility to
their cause, his vetoes of pension acts
his hOnoring ex-Confederates over
Union Soldiers, are still fresh in their
memories. They will agree with Mr..
Watterson that 'his administration
stands as a monument to the I'M
tagging devotion to the interests of
the people," By the people he means
the people of the South and their
friends in the North to whom ''South-
ern defeats gave no joy and North
ern disasters no sorrow" who muir
dered enrolling officers during the ex-
istence of the draft, and by their
speeches, resolutions and votes de-
clared that mot another man or an
other dollar should be voted to carry
on cruel war against the South"
Again Mr.. Watterson says:
ellis great Anti Pension Message
is like unto it, a second chapter in
the Democratic Book of Reform.
The hope of the country is the end of
tariff robbery. The hope of the
treasury is the end Of the pension
robbery"
So the "stuffed prophets" pension
vetoes are regarded as ga second
chapter in the Democratic Book of
Reform" Every Union Veteran
should understand that the messages
were filled with sneers at the unhap-
Ply necessities of the Veterans, with
reflections upon the veracity of their
oaths and virtue as well as with bru-
tai attacks on the Grand Army of the
Republic, and all this came from a
man who defended his country bv a
paid substitute. Mr.. Watterson con
Guides this trade of billingsgate and
hate towards the Union Veterans as
follows:
We war against Reedism, Roumism
and Robbery. We war against force
and fustian. We war against protec-
ton plutoeracy and Agrarian Pension
monogamy. And we propose to carry
the war into Africa; to shake the rot
ten cltadeis of unholy greed to their
foundations and make the robbers
howl. The black flag is up against
corruption in high places. No DIAL
lance with zealots; no quarter to
thieves"
Mr.. WattersOn attempts by ''force
and fustian," to convince voters that
those who fought to destroy the
Union were it's true friends, and that
the men who shed their blood and
gave their substance to preserve it
were It's only enemies. This bold at
tack OF Watterson's is only carrying
out the declaration of Senator Black
burn, OF Kentucky, who said, 1--WE do
not propose to stop until we have
wiped from the Statute books their
last vestige of war legislation;" and
of Wade Hampton, a Senator from
South Carolina, who in a speech at
Stanton, Virginia, in appealing to
his former comrades to stand by their
regular Democratic organization,
said, "They represent the principles
that Lee and Jackson fought for"
nCleveland, Watterson, Blackburn,
Wade Hampton and their political
allies ever get possession of this Gov
they will carry out their
pledges to the enemies of the Union
soldiers and the wise and beneficial
acts that are now the support of