San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. '94.

department. or the POtOmac, VI. a.
r., who have gone to the annual
encampment at Pittsburg from
Washington carried with them a
document that will be heard from
by the Cleveland administration,
and what is heard will not be
pleasant, either. That document is
a resolution adopted iby the De-
partment of the Potomac, asking
that some action be taken by the
encampment concerning the whole
sale dismissal of union veterans
by this administration, in viola
ton of the general law as we'll as
OF the civil service law, both of
which say in plain language that
other things being equal union
veterans shall have the preference
in government employment. The
resolution was adopted in eXecu-
tive session and will not be made
public until it has been submitted
to the encampment, but | happen
to know that it is both vigorous
and pointed.
This matter of the discharge of
union soldiers somewhere in the
neigh borhood of two thousand of
them have been dismissed from
the government service since
March 4, 1888 will not be allowed to
rest with the G. A. r. Many of the
men dismissed are not members OF
that organization, and for that
reason an independent organiza-
ton has been formed, composed
entirely of union soldiers who have
been dismissed from the govern
ment service by the Democrats,
which will act as an auxiliary to
the G. A. r. in bringing their I'M
Just treatment to the notice of the
public, and in attempting to get
justice for themselves. This Or
ganiZation has held several meet
ings, and is in possession of the re-
cord of every veteran dismissed,
but it will not decide what action
it will take until it is known W hat
disposition the G. A. r. encamp-
ment will make of the resolution
sent from Washing ton, as the de-
sire Is to allow the G. A. r. to take
the initiative.
The recent action of the sugar
planters of Louisiana, in deciding
to act with the Republican party,
recalls a prediction made by ex-
governor Yarmouth, who was in
Washington during the fight over
the sugar schedule in the Senate.
He told ex-Speaker Reed and Re-
preventative Dalzel, OF Pennsyl-
vania, that If they would agree to
make a dozen protection speeches
in Louisiana he would promise
that at least three Republican
memb ers would be elected to the
House from that State. Neither Of
them made any promise. In fact,
the prominent Republicans, while
willing to give all men cordial
welcome to the Republican party,
are rather disposed to leave these
Louisiana sugar planters to work
out their own political salvation.
They have not forgotten the efforts
which have been made time after
time by the Republican party to
make these very same sugar plan
ters see that their prosperity, as
we'll as that Of the country at large,
was dependent upon the success of
the Republican party, nor tie
manner in which those efforts
were received. The sugar planters
took all the benefits they could get
from the Republicans and cOntin-
ued to work and vote for the
Democrats. Now they are getting
paid for being blind to their own
interests and the average Republi-
can believes in letting them do
their own weeping. How the
Louisiana Democrats in Congress
take the move may be gathered
from this plain language used by
Representative Meyer, the only one
of them now in Washington. at
may mean that Republican dele
CATION will be sent to the next
House from Louisiana and that
Republican Presidential electors
may be chosen in '96. This move
ment is no more than might have
been expected. The Democratic
Congress has dealt shamefully
with the great interest of Louis
lana after repeatedly promising to
sustain it. The party has received
strong and consistent support from
the State for many years, and the
first time it secures complete con-
troll of the government it proceeds
to inflict upon Louisiana the hard
est blow she was ever given by
legislation. We have not only
been dealt unfairly with, but have
baan decieved in a word, buncoed.n