Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-12

came to my knowledge ny resolution Q
the Legislature | apo a ID a commits
sion consisting of one " publican an
one Democrat, the Democrat being MI
Ewing of Lancaster. a grandson of Ol
Tom Ewing, and one of the cleanes
and most honora BILE young men in tn
State. That commission reported tn
grossest irregularities, which resulte
in this deficiency. but which can not b
chargeable TO the present administers
ton. There was also a deficiency o
S13, 600 in the Office of the Public Print
er, every dollar of which was occasione
by the Public Printer appointed by IN,
predecessor. and whose resignation
was forced 70 icqu st because of inet
ficiency.
Whatever mistsk1s this. administra
ton has MADE 1t has no concealment
but invites the closest and most search
ing scrutiny. An administration ma.
make mistakes in its appointments. l
it honestly believes that appointrs.nt
made are good ones and it aftetW III
turns out that they are not, the onl,
duty which rests upon the administra
ton is to dismiss the appointees from
the public service. prolonged applaus,
mingled with shouts of Were satisfied
with you, Governor.
1t can no longer be howled by Neal
and Taylor that Governor Mckinley
has paid no attention to State matters
He has spoken. 1t was Mr.. Neal him
self who laid down the gage of battle
and selected his own weapons and hi:
own ground. That he has seen fit tt
change them all is the most significant
feature of his campaign. Governor
Mckinley was content to let the record
of his administration stand for itself
without verbal defense on his part, and
80 it stood until Mr.. Neal attacked it
He will find the Governor ready for any
discussion that may be undertaken.
Only Working Five Hours Now.
Here is an actual conversation be-
tween an employer and an employe. il
Illustrative of one voters reason for sup
porting the Democratic ticket. The
employer is one of the leading mer-
chants in Chicago and the employe is
an 1rishman, as will be seen, that he
has had with him for some time. The
employer had been absent from the
city for short time, and upon his re-
turn he naturally asked Pat, who met
him at the depot, How are things at
homer To which Pat replied, why,
things are much better than when you
went away, as you recollect you went
away early in the spring" The en-
ployer said: II don't exactly under.
stand, Pat" Il will explain to you, u
said Pat. "You know that the Repub-
ican party has been for 10 these many
years reducing the hours of labor down
to eight hours per day. Yes. you might
say it has been fully 25 years at it-just
think how locg they were doing it-and
it was only yesterday that l was read
ing in the paper-and you know that
the Democratic party has only been in
power six months, and it was in the
paper 1 was reading there are
very few mills down East, or anywhere
else now, where the men work over five
hours day. Now 1 will just ask you
if this is not accomplishing more in six
months than the Republican party did
in 20 years"
THEY HATE UNION SOLDIERS.
Facts From the Records Which Do Not
Change and Can Not Be Denied.
Every civilized country in the world
today has some official system to pro-
vide for the support and care of the
men who have been wounded or dis
abled in its defense, or the widows and
orphan children of such as have been
killed in its service. These systems are
different according to the standing and
rank of the Nation and the general
character of its laws and the degree of
its civilization.
Revolutionary Pensioners.
The United States has never been
backward in this respect, and SO imme-
diately upon the formation of the
Union, over a century ago, laws were
passed to pay pensions to the soldiers and
sailors and marines of the Revolutionary
War, who were wounded, disabled or
diseased in the service of the Union,
and to the widows, their orphan chill
dren, and the dependent parents of
those who were killed in that war.
The amounts paid were gradually en-
larged, from time to time, as the pen
sioner's wounds or disabilities became
aggravated in intensity, the scope of
the law and the intent Of Congress be-
ing that when the Revolutionary SOL
70 liEyIv hn
should not have to pauperize himself.
but would be generously cared for by
the general Government. In looking
over. the debates of Congress in the
early part of the present century, one
finds many remarkable outbursts of
from the noted men of those
days, all in behalf of the soldier, his
sacrifices, hardships and claims on the
Government.
Pensioners of Later Wars.
So the survivors of the War of 1912,
the Mexican War, and the Seminole,
Black Hawk, Pontiac and other Indian
wars have all been provided for, and
never has the voice of man been raised
to condemn the laws passed in their be-
half nor the worthiness of the persons
benefited thereby. The last annual re-
port of the Commissioner of Pensions
shows that at the close of the fiscal
year 1892, there were eighteen widows
and daughters of the Revolutionary
War on the pension roll, and he gives
their names and addresses, as he also
does of the 1855 soldiers and sa lors of
the War of 1912 who are still living.
There are also about $4,000 Mex
ican War pensioners. During all
this period at no time had any
public speaker (much less any
public Officially the hardihood to
malign and vilify and basely lie
about these brave men and their wild
ows and orphans. Did you ever hear
anyone intimate that they did not con-
stitute Roll of Honor? Yet the Union
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