The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-21

circulate IL, know that IL Is n lie, but
are anxious to ride again into Office on
the back Of lie, since truth no longer
refuses to carry them.
desire TO say here and now TO our
republica friends, surrounded as / am
by the bronzed democratic veterans of
the war, and the democratic fathers
and mothers and wives and sisters of
the heroic democratic dead, that these
illustrious dead are our dead as well as
yours; that the honored living are our
fathers and sons and brothers as we'll
as yours, and that their comfort and
care and welfare are as dear TO us as
they can be to you'll
And shame upon the demagogues
who seek to trade upon patriotism, so
often the last ditch of the undeserving,
and whose love for the soldier never
manifests itself except in political
campaign.
Nowhere between the rising and set
ting of the sun, in all this broad land,
in office or out of office, is there sim
gle man who marches beneath the flag
of democracy, but is in favor of giving
the most ample pension to every de-
Serving VeUtTdu WHO HctuS III.
And now, IL there is any man here
VINO believes In paying pensions to the
undeserving who do not need them. let
him stand up and make himself known.
Why should we democrats be op-
posed to generous and honest pensions
to the deserving? To the shattered
members Of our own bouseholdP The
charge that we are is the wilful false
hood of the dispairing demagogue, and
is beneath the contempt of every man
who wore blue.
1t is projected into this campaign by
the same men who said that the cleo
tion of a democratic president meant
the payment of the rebel debt; that it
meant the pensioning of the confeder-
ate soldiers; that IL meant the re-en-
slavement of the negroes; that IL
meant the notification of the XIV and
XIV amendments to the constitution;
that 1t meant the taking away of PEN
sions of all union soldiers, and the i'm
mediate destruction Of the government
itself.
All these things were TO come to pass
between the 4th of March, 1886, and the
3rd of March, 1889, while Grover Cleve-
land was president You know that
not one of them came to pass You
know that each Of them was a miser-
able falsehood.
So. too is the charge in 1898 that a
democratic administration proposes to
deprive the battle-scarred veterans OF
their pensions, because II intends to
make the pension roll roll of honor,
and pay honest pensions to the deserv-
ing without asking the politics of the
pensioner
If there ever is party in this coun-
try, organized to take away the pen
sions of the soldiers, you will see il
enter the field three years from now,
and it will be marshaled by the same
Bourbon republican demagogpes, who
to-day are lying about the democratic
administration, in the hope and expec.
tation of seducing democratic soldiers
from their allegiance.
Let me say to the old soldiers of all
| parties: You have nothing to fear from
the democratic party, founded in the
hearts and consciences of the people
but keep your eyes upon the Bourbon
republican leaders. They are anxious
to deceive you out of your votes, but
beyond those votes they have no use
| for you .t.
These republican politicians, who
| have raised this pension outcry, hay,
no more use for you, after they foo
you out of your votes, than they haG
for Mcclellan, ami Hancock, anG
Thomas, and Morgan, and Steadman
and Corse, and Slocum, and McCook
and Ewing, and Wiley, and Rice, ant
Rosecrans, and all the long roll O
democratic heroes, whom thcy revilet
and denounced without limit as trai
tors, when they were candidates fol-
| public Office on OF advocated the sue
| cess of the democratic ticket
| And now letnue give you a specimen
of the love of those sleek republican
politicians for the soldier and his faith.
er or mother and his widow and his
orphan. One Charles w. +. Dick,
Chairman of the Republican State Elk.
ecutive Committee, has entered into
partnership with one Henry ID. Phillips,
a pension attorney, of Washington, d,
| C., under which Mr.. Dick agrees to put
the circular of Phillips in the hands oi
every soldier, every deceased soldiers
| widow or father or mother, and every
! deceased soldiers minor child, or guard
ian in the state of Ohio.
4 In this circular are sixteen questions
with blanks left for answers The an
swers will show the military services
| of every soldier who responds, and
what right toa pension the other re
spCndents have, if any, and what right
to a pension or an increase of pension
the soldiers may have.
4 Five two-cent stamps must accom-
4 pany each answer.
There are at least 400, 600 men, WON
en- and children in Ohio to whom these
blanks can and will be sent. Suppose
that one-half of them should fill out
the circular, and it is likely that mum
Der will, If 2they are not warned by
what am now saying, and enclose the
stamps, what will the pension agents
harvest be?
The mere ,trihe of $4,000. Only $50,
900 for the privilege of filing up Mr.
Henry ID Phillips circular and return
ing it at their own eXpensel
The opulentipe pension sharks have in
vented good many schemes for work
ing the soldier and the widow and the
orphan, but this is the worst of all Of
| themi
just how the partnership fund is tc
be divided DON'T know, but it is fan
to suppose it will be divided even,
This will give $4,000 to Politician
| Dick and $40, 900 10 the opulent pension