New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-15
MUCH HUM AND BUSTLE.
EVERY ONE BUSY AT HEADQUARTERS.
EX-SENATOR PIERCE. SENATORS MANDERsoS NM
UsCoCK AMONG THE OALLER:-CLEvELANp

and a number Of prominent men visited hlih' hO"'
| ,hom were ex-senator Gilbert A. Pierce, OF Mime
sota the Editor Of The Minneapolis Tribune oeI"'o
| Charles F. henderson OF Nebraska senator ria""
| lliscock General George Nancy and te Kew ~
George L. shearer. When not engaged In conference
with other leaders, Chairman Carte: was busy al us
| desk all day. The many people who were anxious
to meet INN saw him outside OF bis ONCE door oh'y
at luncheon tine and at two or three other shoF'
periods The whole air Of the headquarters. Win
| Its hum and hustle. tells that large amount Vi
| active work is being done there.
james S. Garrison has gone TO Buffalo to attehu
the convention OF the National League OF Republican
Clubs, and the tide OF callers that usually hows III
and out OF his door not seen. Senator ChafieS
| Henderson, when asked about the situation III
| Nebraska. said
| owe are MAILING a gaining fight and everything
| looks well. There evidences OH every mana thh'
| we are constantly winning votes from the Peoples
party which at the beginning OF the campaign started
| out with a strong following, There does not seem
to be any fusion among our opponents, at least OH
the Electoral ticket. As things look at present we
shall certainly carry the State. and we have ihir
show OF doing so under any circumstances that may
| yet arise
Ex-senator Pierce while at headquarters, said
| "There is no more question about Minnesota thah
| there IS about Vermont. The opposition may nave
coalition or not they please. They cannot beat
| Harrison and Knutc Nelson
There was an interesting CONVERSATION ~ '"o "'''
quarters yesterday about the attitude Of the veterans
toward Grover Cleveland one of the visitors at the
headquarters started the subject by quoting the
prophetc words Of General Daniel +. sclSes at the
Chicago Convention in opposition to the nomination OF
Cleveland.
al do not feel said General siclcs, Z" like sup
porting any man who has treated the old soldiers In
the way Mr.. Cleveland has treated them. by his III
suits he sent General Mcclellan with broken heart
TO his grave. feel as the old soldier does. tell
you. sir. the old soldier Will not vote Tor CieVe
land. lie cannot carry NewYork.'
The visitor continued: "Whep the man who lost a
limb at Gettysburg in the Union cause made that
pungent statement he had In mind the long days OF
marching, and nights Of blvouac in the cold and wet
He was thinking OF the battlenelds where men with
lanterns picked their way among heaps OF the oead
and wounded who had fallen TO preserve the Union
Of bloodshed for principle; Of homes from WHICH
sons and brothers and husbands and fathers hah pee"
cruelty snatched away by the War; Another picture
IL seems to me, rose IN the Generals mind, too
picture OF man reposng In his warm SOFT bed al
Buffalo. comfortable. but unconscious Of everything
even OF the facts that tho Union was In danger and
TINT he was not at the front % help preserve H.
When General sicklcs said 1 tell you, sir, the old
soldier will not for Cleveland lilo cannot carry
New York the two pictures stood In strong contrast
in his recollection and after them came the memory
a, the blows which Grover Cleveland as the Chief
Executive official, administered TO the survivors OF
that struggle to save tho Nation.
"General sickles,7 said another "made that state
ment OF his after the nomination OF Cleveland by the
Chicago convention. and after be and General socum
had signed a circular with the other Ncw-fck dele
gates. that Cleveland could not carry the State
The spirit in which Mr. Ceveand's canvass Is
being carried on in the South was made manifest BY
q cIppinr which one OF the men present brought
out. II from recent issue Of "Ihc 'Iooe'
Of Durham. y. @. 1t rs follows:
"Tne pension fraud Is a theft, and we repeat that
no man can honestly defend It. The South has been
taxed 10 death TO pay this Grand Army Oh r"soas-
those bo,tle-scarrcd buns who reach In the empty
naIn-and when Cleveland struck me beggars in the
face he did a good business Job. We hope TO God
that 10 NAV have chance TO hit ZEN agnn. Migrants
and nendcanis should be both vigorously slapped and
licked"
This WAS thought DO rather insulting 10 the men
who saved the Union and made It possible for ans man
from Buffalo or anywhere else be President OF the
United States and slap the bottle SCARED buns III
the face but there more patriotic sentiments
OF the same editor which the reader had In reserve
lie read one from the next days Issue OF The Dur
ham Globe" follows:
am. between Harrison and Cevcland-nrs last
and all the time-I am for the brave Buffalo man
who slapped the dirty pensioners. who are FOR the
most part beggars in the face They were dirty ana
lousy rascals, who came into this country, ana WHO
abused women who burned homes, who stole all that
was in sight and today, without an honorable scar
arc bleeding TN, country and am helping 10 pay
for IT, Let the hired Yankees hnWl. am Oh ule
sonth and for the South
The hired Yankees 1t was thought, were likely
to howl their dcnunclaton Of dsunlon and Us living
spirit and not likely 10 vote for the man whose
hcrosm Is compared to theirs In this wise By bis
North Carolina friends:
some Of the North Carolina papers arc bowling
about the positive fact that Grover Cleveland hired
ltr rh.pt tho. North pillu Ced
and plundcrcd and burned and ravlshcd the south.
There could not be a better recommendation. The
scamps nj the North who went into the war, went
I'm for si4 n month, with an explicit understanding
that they should and could steal all that was IN
light Grover Cleveland know that the country would
need his services in 1884 and again IN 1902. aIf he
did not propose to have his body filed with lead
in order 10 give n Yankee the chance to pick his
nockct after lie had been killed. lie simply did n
good business job rs he did WREN he slapped inc
dirty bcggnrs called pensioners. In the lace why
sbonld he-a statesman and a man Of his Intellect
take the chance Of war, when he could hire cheap
fellow to represent hint There Is no reason. The
cIobo rerards that as one Of the best things Clcvc
land over did II Cleveland had fought he would
have bcen lowered In the estimation OF the south
lie did not propose to his skill In killing the boys
OF the southland. The solid south owes debt OF
gratitude 10 Grover Clcveland.'
"This is guerilla warfare" said the man with the
clIppings "but II you think that the sentiments so
brntally and vugarly manifested by this man are
confined 10 few hOtheads Just look Mt these clippings
from newspapers Of higher standing ana more dignity
Here Is one from The Memphis Appcalhvalanche.
The speaker then read this attempt to convince me
Southern farmer not vote for Harrison:
Because he has favored the pension legislation
which has 50 increased the pension expenditures that
II drains $40 900 900 annually from thc southern PEG
ME This drain Of $f0,O0ooO0 Is cxhnustlng the
energies Of the south. and. In connection with the
tariff faxes has reduced the southern farmer to con
dirIon OF actual The continuation OF Benjamin
Harrison in the Presidential chair opens the way Tor
a stil further looung OF the Treasury. a service
pension bill will he passed before long unless Inc pco
pie drive of the lOOtcrs.'
The man went on: What Cleveland has done ana |