Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-10-20
MEXICO, MISSOURI THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1892

the Democratic ticket they would b,
returned to slavery. / rejoice to SCI
that the intelligent negroes are exe-
! cising their right as free American
citizens to think and act for them.
selves, and are breaking away from
those pretended friends who have
bamboozled and robbed them.
CLEVELAND THE VETERANS FRIEND.
II shall call your attention to jus,
another fraud and falsehood of the
Republicans, and / close. The Re.
publicans know the strength of the
soldier vote, and they have resorted
to every known means to estrange
it from Mr.. Cleveland. The Globe
Democrat in every issue calls upon
the soldiers to vote against President
Cleveland because of his opposition
to them and his lack of sympathy
for their schemes. The pension rec
ords show that President Cleveland
has been the best friend the Union
soldiers have ever had. The records
reveal to us the fact that President
Cleveland approved II more private
pension bills during the first two
years of his administration than
Grant and Hayes approved in IL
years. He approved 1877 more than
Garfield and Arthur approved in
four years. He approved the act
which increased to $12 per month
the pensions of 100000 widows,
minors and dependent relatives of
Union soldiers. He approved the
act which increased the pensions of
10000 crippled and MANNED soldiers
from $24 to $50 per month and
from $50 to $37 and $45 per month.
He approved the act which placed
upon the pension roll $4,000 sur
viVors and widows of the Mexican
War. He approved the act giving
arrears of pensions to 10000 wild
ows. Under Republican rule, all
told, 1924 private pension bills were
passed and approved, while Presi-
dent Cleveland approved 1884 pri-
vate pension bills during three years
and four months of his administra-
ton.
'tThe recordssalso show President
Cleveland appointed more Union
soldiers to office than any other
President. In the Pension Office
there was disbursed in payment of
pensions SIC, 100000 more during
the first two years of President Cleve-
lands administration than during
the previous two years under Re-
publican rule. During the first two
years of President Cleveland's ad-
ministration there was Is, 400 more
pensioners enrolled than during the
two years previous under President
administration. During the
year 1887 there wers 5,017 more
original pension certificates issued
than had ever been issued in one
year since the war. We find, too,
this was all done with reduction in
the clerical force in the Pension De-
partment OF 124. Do not these fig
ures show that President Cleveland
was and is a friend of the soldier,
and do they not show the Republi-
cans failed to do their duty toward
the soldiers during the long time
they had supreme power in their
hands?
"Again, of the II pension agents
by President Cleveland 16
were Union soldiers and the seven
teenth was Mrs. M. A. Mulligan,
the widow of a distinguished Union
soldier. 1t is a well-known fact that
never in the history of the Govern
ment were more soldiers employed
than during Mr.. .Cleveland's admins
tration.
cit is claimed that because Presi-
dent Cleveland vetoed 1919 private
pension bills he. was an enemy of
the Union soldiers. While Presi-
dent Cleveland did veto this num-
ber, he approved !, 1854 private PEN
sion bills. Of the 1919 vetoes 1 was
soldier of nine months
service, 4 were deserters, who had
been discharged, 10 were applicants
who were not in the service when the
disabilities were incurred, 10 because
the claimants were receiving pen
sions equal to the amount allowed
by law for their disabilities. On the
same grounds General Grant also
vetoed such bills as were presented
him for approval. Have l not prov
en- that President Cleveland was a
friend of the soldiers, and have l
not proven that the reports of his
enmity to them are frauds and false
hoods?
WARNER AND HIS HYPOCRISY.
81 feel that it would be a waste
of time and an imposition upon
your patience to dwell upon Major
Warner, and in exposing further his
fraudulent claims of standing up
for Missouri his hypocrisy and
demagoguery. Vest, Stone and
Francis and others have knocked
him completely out OF the box,
leaving nothing much Of him but a
mouth, which resembles in its size
and in its ineessant runhlinps. the