The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-10-07
and Stevenson and Lower
Taxes.


J from the amount OF republican campaign
literature distributed by the post masters,
we infer the republican party has re-
treated 10 its last line OF defense.
Among others there Is comic illustrated
pamphlet distributed among soldiers;
one picture represents Grover and
Adlai in German beer garden, buying
twoGermsn subslitutes.- pictured as two
vsgabonds. There were nearly half
million lawful substitutes in the Union
armies during the rebellion. Ii all of
them looked like the two presented in
this republican campaign pamphlet,
there would be good cause for ell OF the
foul epitaphs used on the opposite page,
aud damper on the German p0pula-
iion, as The substitutes are represented
AS German bummers. Just such circu-
lars, using the language il does for poll
tic4l effect, will bring soldiers into dis
grace.
Another picture shows Harrison and
Reid ia the battles front While we sd-
init that Harrison was q soldier, and
would not pluck single laurel from his
brow, we deny the same honor to Reid.
be was q mere newspaper correspon-
dent, giving the Union generals no lit
giving the rebels the same information.
through the columns of his paper, that
their employed spies would have given (;
suppressed by General Rosencrsnz, aud
r ordered out OF camp by Col. Silss Col
grove, tor shamelessly disappearing
Indiana Volunteers. Such was Reds
military career. 1t would have been
better for the country il he had been
III - arh fnfa
On the front Of this catch-soldier docu-
! meDt is represented the u. 5. Treasury,
with Congressman Holman represented
. as watch dog, with Uncle Sam in the
attitude OF begging for . pension ap-
propiation, and the watch dog denying
. it--a contemplate falsehood on it's face.
i The truth is. that the peusion appropri-
v alton of 8 40 ,O0U,0OO WAS made by the
democratic House, without . dissenting
voice. Not only this, but also = $1,000
900 deficiency left them by repubii-
ctn House! what flsgranr injustice. by
malicious falseboods, not only TO the
= country at large, but to the soldiers
, themselves. To think that a lot OF po-
4 liticsl schemers and giggiing postmas-
!. tiers, who never bore arms in defence Of
/, their country. would defiie the ssnctity
y effect. These political humbuggers
claim that they alone are entitled TO the
soldier vote" and want to control the
soldiers about the same way Ms they con-
troll the negro vote. From ibe language
= used in special soldier campaign litefa-
iure. No matter how much the demo
: cratic party dors for the soldier. they
will denounce tie measures all the same
"a at Fr.tA "a
= !, has doUe better for the soldier than Iudi.
= ana, and that under democratic rule.
Yet we have to hear from republican.
:. that much can not be expected Tor The
= soldiers fr II Indiana, the way il is po'
:. liticaily situsted,-as much as 10 say
4 that democrats are ia the way. But the
: truth Is the Republicans party i.
chatting under democratic liberaIity
" The state Of Indiana has commission ed
: lprivate soldiers from lis regiments, tina,
participated in the Gettysburg battle, &c
locate their positions on that memora.
bic ground, in order that proper monu.
ments may be erected to their memory
aud comrade of Co. X. 9th Ind. vols.
: sill! holds that Commission from Dem.
, ocrstic Governor. Nay. more, the state
I OF lndiana il constructing q monumen,
that eclipses any monument Of its kind
in the entire Union, the erection o
which was first attacked by republican.
as sn unnecessary expense, again by at.
y lacking q stipence of q tax levy to sc.
:. cure iis completion.
70 A great ado Is also made against
u Cleveland for vetong the dependent
: pension bill. The msjority Of the g. A
L. LII
! land in this measure, aud opposed the
I dependent pension bill in favor of q SER
vice pension. The writer well remem-
bers some OF the most bitter speeches
g made against the dependent pension bill
Q by republican comrades Of the q. A. X
& stating that II would make beggars
out Of the surviving soldiers, that in
: order TO obtain pension under its re-
!, lquirements q soldier would become q
u beggar, and that there was no special
p honor 10 having such pension certifi.
e cate that a service pension would honor
u the soldier for bis services, head up aud
Q body erect. and ready for another affrsy
y But. alas! the machine politicians and
lpension agents thought otherwise; they
did not want the soldiers independent
but wanted them dependent, or beggars
10 use tnem JUST ~ WHAT tHey arc now
striving to do. With armies Of pension
agents and pension clerks they have q
corner on the soldier by the so-cslled
dependent pension bill. In short they
have the matter cut and dried.
Cleveland while president was with
the soldiers, and vetoed the Dependent
bill, but be would have signed . servic,
pension bill. The agents were too muct
for him and downed him. The last q
Z. A II. encampment Of Indiana was will
"a Cleveland, and resolved that no NOR,
.. deserters and dishonorably discharged
H. soldiers be recognized. Cleveland die
= the same. and was kicked for IL! Cleve
ct Children Cry for
in in Children Cry fov