The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-10-20
W.. reNsloN oursrlor.
xst soldiers Judge the Candidates By
Their Public Acts.

Their Public Acts.
The Record of President Cleveland.
While Grover Cleveland was Presi-
dent he vetoed $50 private pension bills
and prevented forty-seven more from be-
coming laws by delaying them till Con-
gress adjourned, making S97 in all which
hedefeated. He refused to sign 227 more
bills, which became laws without his
signature, 80 he, therefore, disapproved
Of 524 private pension bills, all told. He
also vetoed the Dependent Pension Bill
with "ghoulish glee" and ribald jests at
the poor and decrepit Union veterans, or
their equally unfortunate dependents
who in many cases needed help to be
saved from county infirmaries or SOL
diers' homes.
The spirit which animated this un-
patriotic executive, who was 30 unmind-
full of the sacrifice and heroism of the
Union soldier that he preferred to go
fishing on Memorial Day rather than
visit cemetery and drop q wreath on
the grave of some hero who died that
the Nation might live, is also shown by
the insulting veto messages which ac-
companied the bills he rejected. Here
are two samples Of Cleveland's veto
messages, though fifty such could easily
be given. In vetoing the claim Of John
w. Ferris in June, 1885, Cleveland said:
"The ingenuity developed in the con-
slant and persistant attacks upon the
public. treasury by those claiming PEN
sions, and in the increase Of those
already granted, is exhibited in bold re-
lief by this attempt to include sore eyes
among the results of diarrhoea."
In vetoing the bill for the relief of
Alfred Denny, also in June, 1885, Presi-
Cleveland went outside any proper dis
charge of duty to insult thousands of the
gallant cavalrymen who under General
Sheridan were go effective in their part
in crushing the rebellion. He said in
poor Denny's case:
"The number of instances in which
those of our soldiers who rode horses
during the war were injured by being
thrown forward on their saddles indi-
Gates that those saddles were very
dangerous contrivances."
b. Ills b6utlIu0uU6 W0To we'll 0ApToS56u ny
General E. s. Bragg, of Wisconsin, who
80 tenderly loved Cleveland "for the
enemies he had made" and who was at
all times during his term Cleveland's
special friend and adviser. Bragg sus-
tanned Cleveland in his veto of the De-
pendent Pension bill and in a speech in
the House on February 27th, 1887, de-
Tended Cleveland's veto in the following
remarks about Union soldiers, his former
comrades:
"Who were the majority of those
men," asked the valorous Bragg, "that
found themselves in the service of the
United States from December, 1854, to
February, 1855, that Congress should
set up nights to pass pensions to provide
for them. They were tie scum Of the Garth.
They lie down and open their
mouths for teat to suck, and it does
not much matter what animal has the
teat so long as they can suck anything
from IL"
What Democratic Leaders ayiAbout It.
In view of Cleveland's record and
words, and the reasonable conduct of
his running-mate General" Adlai E.
Stevenson, as q member of the Knights
of the Golden Circle during the war, is
it any wonder that thousands Of Demo
Gratis who were brave Union soldiers de-
clare they can not vote for them? 1t
was only the other day that Demo
cratic soldier and gallant officer pro-
pounded this question, and surely Gen
eral William 81. Slocum, of New York,
is known from one end Of the country to
the other:
81 would like to know" asks General
Slocum, show any soldier can vote fol
two men, both drafted on the same day
against man who served his country
ss Loyalty as Harrison did in the time oi
peril%
It was another Democratic soldier that
propounded this question:;
Are the Democratic soldiers going tC
vote for Cleveland because the CHIEF
spokesman of the Democratic convention
aaS platform, the Louisville Courier
journal, denounces them and theil
wounded, sick, helpless, aged and infirn
LOoters, PerJurers,
Coffee coolers, Robbers,
Camp followers, Agrarians,
Red nosed patriots, Thieves and
Loafers?
Thousands of soldiers have heard ani
many Democrats openly applaud the ad
vice of General Daniel E. Sickles, o.
New York, prominent Democratic
leader, in his speech at the National G.
A. r. encampment at Washington. d
c., on Wednesday evening, September
21st. He spoke at q camp fire and con
cluded his remarks as follows:
"You are going home now, and ther'
is something want you to take HON,
with you. Ponder it; teach it to you
children; tell it to your neighbors. 1t i
this truth. That the people of tn