The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-21
SOLDIERS NOT IMsr clLss.

Governor Mckinley, who voted
against the only pension law asked for
by the Grand Army of the Republic and
wantonly ignored the claims of old
soldiers In appointments for post-mas-
ters, inspectors and other offices within
his control, while serving in the United
States Congress-, and who while chair
man Of the committee on rules refused
to let the army nurse bill be taken
from its place on the calendar and
passed, as 1t was finally done by the
last Democratic Congress, now sets
himself up as the special champion
of pensions.
In his Akron speech, which he is re-
peating daily and will continue to re-
peat from now until election, he gets
off clustering TRADE against the ad-
ministration and promises that when
the Republican party returns to power,
the prom ise of Lincoln and Grant and
the people who upheld them will be
again the sacredly observed law of the
land"
Governor Mckinley forgets to state
that IL was General Grant, Republi-
can President, who vetoed the first
pension bill. He forgets to state that
the Republican party, though
in control of pension legislation tor
twenty-five years, after the war, passed
no law that the veteran disabled on the
battlefield could avail himself of,
because he was required To prove q
hospital record he never had.
He forgets to state that Judge
Judge Lochren has uneartheu the
claims of 100000 veteran soldiers whose
injuries date back to the war, three
fourths of whose claims are completed
but were "side tracked" by Commits
siouer Raum, to make votes for Harri-
son, by the indiscriminate loading up
of the pension soils under the depend
ent pension law.
But If Governor Mckinley forgets
these things the veteran soldiers do not
forget them. Judge r. II. Cochrane,
himself gallant soldier and comrade
of Judge Lochren, Commissioner of
Pensions, who, last year, represented
Ohio on the National Council of Ad.
ministration of the Grand Army of the
Republic and was reelected to SINH
lar position at Indianapolis, In aspeech
delivered at q soldiers and sailors
reunion in Ottawa county showed him.
self Republican honest enough
to properly characterize the attempts
Of demagogues ITO stampede the boys"
90 IL bhCy WClC q hOtu VI NNOuiCg Va q
pack of imbeciles." OF President
Cleveland and the administration of
the pension Office, he says:
81 believe the president Of the undi-
vided United States respects the men
who made it possible for him to hold
that high Office. You may not know
that two of his brothers were our COM
rades, and he, too, would have been,
but for the fact that they insisted and
duty required that he remain to care
for a widowed mother. don't believe
he would permit any man to control
the pension department who does not
respect the soldiers. know that par
tisan criticisms and harsh judgment
have driven many of our best public
men into an early grave. know that
attempts have been made by dema-
gogues to fan into fury the prejudices
OF the old soldier; and l know that in
every case it was an attempt to stampede
the boys as If we were herd of cattle
or pack of imbeciles. The laws gov
erning pensions stand on the books.
They must be enforced and obeyed."