The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-24
TIE aF1sRnooN PROCEEDINGS.
DIR. Floods Scathiug Arraignmsnt of the
Cleveland Dynasty.
Special 10 the Scranton Tribune.

Special TO the Scranton Tribune
HARRISBURG, Pa, May 23.-It was 2
o'clock before the convention got down
to business after the uoon recess. The
intervening time was taken up by
songs from male qnartette from
Philadelphia eulogistic of Hastings and
Lyon, and by stirring strains from the
Harrisburg city band. Chairman Eve.
rett Warren, of the committee, on per-
manent organization reported the name
Of DR.. Theodore l.. Flood, Of Crawford,
for permanent chairman, the minor
temporary afficials to be made
permanent He also reported W. j..
Schubmehl as the Twentieth senatorial
districts representative in the list OF
honorary vice presidents. and W. s.
Millar, In the list Of honorary secre-
taries. This organic ition was accepted
unanimously. DR.. Flood, when es.
corted to the platform, spoke brilfly,
having first received a humorous in
PRODUCTION by the retiring presiding
officer, General Wagner, to the effect
that this was a Flood convention. Dr..
Flood smoke at length and was repeat
edly applauded. his apt illusions to
the past notabes of Pennsylvania Re-
publicanism eliciting spirited tokens
OF 81 probation. Ia the course of his
remarks he said:
The treatment our old soldiers, the wild.
ows and orphans of soldiers, has received
at the hands OF this Democratic admins
| tration, deserves the rebuke that is com
ing from all parts Of the land. The histo-
rian Of these times will not find patriotism
as the guiding spirit Of President Cleve-
land in selecting his present secretary OF
the interior Mr. Hoke Smith was in sym
pathy with the south IN her struggle with
the north against the union. 1t is asking
too much for human nature like his to ex-
ercise fatherly, rs we'll as q judicial care,
over the old soldiers who fought against
his cause, and pay them more than
one hundred million dollars in pen
sions every year. Mr.. Smith is not
| great enough to administer the pension
bureau to the satisfaction Of the people
who love the American Union. We do
not ask for the endorsement Of fraud, OF
| the concealment OF dishonesty in securing
pensions for soldiers; but we do hold that
every soldier whose health was broken.
whose body was MANNED by the service he
rendered his country In the war for the
Union should receive pension, and that
the widows and orphans Of soldiers slaiu
in battle, or incapacltate0 by disese con-
,cted in the army, should also receive q
pension, aud a patriotic administration
should see that 1t " done.
Mr.. Cleveland could have found an old
soldier in the Democratic party with
sufficient ability to perform the functions
Of that Office and by appointing such
man he would not have insulted more thar
900 900 old soldiers. 1t Is terrible charg,
to make, but nevertheless is 1t not true IL
the light of what we knowItoday, that th,
fires Of patriotism in this administration
burn low In the interior Department. IL
this commonwealth more that 70,0O0 old
soldiers with 100, 600 sons of veterans, will
see toit In November that their ballot
viii be an additional rebuke to this'unjus
treatment
Consider that thirty-four years ago th
Democratic party was In control Of tn
government. The president and botl
! houses OF congress were Democratic, bu