The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Time Changes All Things.


Did Weaver hate the South? It is
quite possible. Did any of US who
were rebel soldiers hate tho Yankees?
Well for us we did and have said
many hard. bitter things and we have
heard things said against them by
most every one South who had been
heard to speak of them. Time
changes the opinion of men. We
hated the North because we lad been
taught by partisan papers that we
should and by our campaign orators
that we should, and the same racket
they are desiring to keep up now.
but it will not do. Polk went to Kan
sas and broke down the barrier that
had been raised. and down went In
gals. the arch enemy of North and
South. Three years ago the people
OF the two sections were enemies, now
they are friends aye. more than
friends we are brothers we have
clasped hands and the death Of Col
onel Polk shows how closely we are
allied. For this one act of l.
L. Polk. the breaking down of
the barrier that separated
North and South. he deserves the
highest monument that has ever been
raised to man in America. Is not
Cleveland South hater? His friends
say no. He has always expressed
sympathy for the South just enough
to keep her under bondage to Wall
street., and when the South says she
wants free silver Cleveland says mo;
l sympathize with you people but it
won't do" Mr. Weaver says: Il
have said hard things against you and
fought you, but see you at the South
are like we of the Northwest under
Wall street domination. l will pro-
test against the financial legislation
of Wall street." For years he has
been fighting the wrong perpetrated
through English and Northern bank
ers upon our country and to-day is
fighting the battle of the people
against the elcroachments of the
moneyed syndfcates backed by a
congress and an sx-president who
promises by his acts that the financial
wrong shall not be righted. = Special
1nformer. Raleigh. N. C.
Reid as a Soldier.
Not since John j, Ingalls, who did
his valiant fighting after the war.
was made a full fedged veteran of the
Grand Army of the Republic, has
anything SO ridiculous ACQUIRED as
the initiation of Whitelaw Reid into
the fold of that order. 1t may not be
proper to call it an initiation, as the
term is used in the ORDER but by
some means Mr.. Reid was made a
member of the order during the
Washington encampment
Now the question has arisen among
Grand Army men. where on earth do
they find any excuse for admitting
this new member to the order. There
is a growing suspicion that it was a
political move says the Topeka Ad-
vocate and Tribune and yet it is very
bad politics, they say. Reid was a
war correspondent and was noted dur
ing a short time for his severe criti-
cism of Lincoln. Grant and Sherman.
In some cases this criticism reached
the point of villifcation. It is said
now that he served as an aide on
some generals staff but it seems
that important part Of history was
left out of the official war records.
He himself does not claim to have
been a private and the generals
whose staff he claims to have been
on are all dead.
So in looking at these two remark
able cases we find that Reds record
does not compare with that of Ingalls,
except in point of gall While COM
rade Ingalls, was prosecuting soldiers
During the wary for foraging chick
ems and sweet potatoes comrade Reid
was sneaking around the camp mis-
representing the actions of union gen.
erals to the best of his ability. And
while comrade Ingalls, was gallantly
SHINING rebels (some years behind
the wary comrade Reid was making
a brilliant war record helping to kill
off Horace Greeley and fighting the
typographical union and otner labor
organizations.
And such political shysters are
forced into the Grand Army of the
Republic in order to catch the votes
of members of that organization.