The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-19


interesting conversation at the national
Republican headquarters yesterday
about the attitude OF the veterans
toward Grover Cleveland. One OF the
visitors at the headquarters started the
subject by quoting the prophetic words
of General Daniel E. sickles at the Chi
cago convention in opposition to the
nomination of Cleveland.
81 do not fee" said General sickies,
''iike supporting any man who has
treated the old soldiers in the way Mr..
Cleveland has treated them. By his in
suits he sent General Mcclellan will. a
broken heart to his grave. l feel as the
old soldier does. tell you, sir. the old
soldier will not vote for Cleveland. He
cannot carry New York"
The visitor continued: when the
man who lost limb at Gettysburg IN
the Union cause made that pungent
statement, he had in mind the long
days Of marching, and nights OF bivouac
in the cold and wet. He was thinking
OF the battleaelds where men with Ian:
terms picked their way among heaps OF
the dead and wounded, who had fallen
10 preserve the union; OF bloodshed for
n principle; OF homes from which sons
and brothers and husbands and fathers
had been cruelty snatched away by the
war. Another picture, it seems to mo,
rose in the generals mind, too. A
picture OF man reposing IN his warm
soft bed at Buffalo, comfortable, but UNI
conscious OF everything, even OF the
facts that the union was in danger, and
that he was not at the front to help pre-
serve It. When General Sickles said
Il fell you, sir, the old soldier will not
vote for Cleveland. He cannot carry
New York. the two pictures stood in
strong contrast in his recollection, and
after them came the memory OF the
blows which Grover Cleveland, OF the
chief executive official, administered to
the survivors Of that struggle TO save
tho nation.
General sickles," said another,
"made that statement Of his alter the
nomination OF Cleveland by the Chica-
90 convention, and after he and Gener-
al Slocum had signed q circular with
the other New York delegates, that
Cleveland could not carry the state"
The spirit in which Mr.. Cleveland's
CANVASS is being carried on in the
South was made manifest by aclipping,
which one OF the men present brought
out It was from recent issue of the
Globe, OF Durham, n. G., 1t was aa fol-
lows:
"The pension fraud is a theft, and We
repeat that no man can honestly de-
fend it. The south has been taxed to
death to pay this Grand Army OF ras-
cals-those bottle.scarred buns who
reach in the empty palm-and when
Cleveland struck the beggars in the
face he did good business job. We
hope to God he may have chance to
hit 'em again. Migrants and mendi-
cants should be both vigorously slap
ped and kicked"
This was thought to be rather insult
ing to the men who saved the Union
and made it possible for any man from
Buffalo or anywhere else to be President
OF the United States and slap the
"bottle-scarred buns" in the face, but
there we're more patriotic" sentiments
of the same editor which the reader had
in reserve. He read one from the next
days issue of the Durham Globe, as fol-
lows:
'iBut between Harrison and Cleveland
first, 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 and lousy rascals, vino came into
this country, and who abused women,
who burned homes, who stole all that
was in sight, and to-day, without an
honorable scar. are bleeding this coun-
try, and / am helping to pay for 1t. Let
the hired Yankees howl. am OF the
south and for the south"
The "hired Yankees" it was thought,
were likely to howl their denunciation
Of disunion and its living spirit, and not
likely to vote for the man whose hero
ism is compared to theirs In this wise
by his North Carolina friends:
"some OF the North Carolina papers
are bowling about the positive fact that
Grover Cleveland hired cheap man to
repreeent him when tho North pillaged
and plundered and burned and raw
ished the South. There could not be q
better recommendation. The scamps
at the North who went into the war,
went in for $l4 q month, with the ex-
plicit understanding that they should
and could steal all that was in sight.
Grover Cleveland knew that the coun-
try would need his services in 1884 and
again in 1892, and he did not propose
to have his body filled with lead in or.
der to give Yankee the chance to pick
his pocket after he had been killed, He
simply did good business job, as he
did when he slapped the dirty beggars,
called pensioners, in the face. Why
should he-a statesman and a man Of
his lntellect-take the chance Of war,
when he could hire cheap fellow to
represent him? There ia no reason.
The Globe regards that us one Of the
best things Cleveland ever did. II
Cleveland had fought he would have
been lowered in the estimation Of the
South. He did not propose to use his
skill in killing the boys OF the South
land. The SolidSouth owes a debt of
gratitude to Grover Cleveland"
''This is guerilla warfare" said the
man with tho clippings, "but II you
think that the sentiments so brutally
and vulgarly manifested by this man
are confined 10 few hotheads, Just
look at these clippings from newspapers
OF higher standing and more dignity.
Here is one from the Memphis Appedl-
Avalanche" The speaker then read this
attempt to convince the Southern
farmer not to vote for Harrison:
"Because he has favored the pension
legislation which has so increased the
pension expenditures thatit drains S4O,-