Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-06

himself Veteran" not only aired
himself, but made fool of himself,
in last weeks Signal. From his man.
ner one doubts very much as to his
being veteran, and ten to one it will
come very near the mark by CHASING
him with those that meyer saw the
front, and who is seeking to draw a
pension, or does draw pension, up
on false pretenses.
His references to the Democratic
administration are too foul and low
for decency to notice, and are so at
variance with the spirit of true SOL
dier that the writer of the rot should
not be classed with them.
This government, whether under
Republican or Democratic admins
tration, will always look after the
welfare of the men who went to the
front to emperil their lives that the ma
tion might be saved. Nosoldier who is
entitled to pension under the laws
need fear for the safety of his pension,
no matter what party is in power,
and he who tries to prejudice the SOL
dier against those in authority is no
true friend of the soldier and is simp-
ly trying to use him as tool.
The government to-day is paying
more money for pensions than ever
before in its history, an amount
which sums up over one hundred and
fifty millions annually, more by far
than is paid in pensions by all the
other nations upon the globe combin-
ed, including the pensions paid to
royalty.
And the present Democratic ad-
ministration, within the past two
years, has issued more pension GER
tificates to deserving soldiers than
any other previous administration
has done within the same length of
time. This does not look very much
as being unfriendly to the soldier.
While this veteran (O is slurring q
Democratic administration for the
appointment of a southern man to q
cabinet position, he should remem-
Der that it was Republican general,
who had become President, who set
the example, by placing in his cabi-
net confederate of the most pro-
nounced sympathies for the southern
people. Those living in glass houses
should not throw stones.
But to show how unreasonable
veteran" (O is we append the fol-
lowing:
God has way to afflict the nations
Of the world, and when He wants to
affiict the government of the United
States the old Democrat party can be
used for that very purpose. Revenue
is needed to boom free trade, so as
to help Johny Bull and other nations
to find good market for their com
nodities. The pension machine run
by Hoke Smith and company in cut
ting down pensions of the men who
saved this government from distruc-
tion, is to increase the revenue to
give respectability to the old Demo-
crat party that endorsed secession, and
some of them said 'shoot down the
Lincoln hirelings wherever you find
them.n
Soldiers, of the G.. A. R., and sons
of veterans, let us buckle on the arm
or once more with forty rounds of
cartridges in our belts and with our
votes at the ballot box, send Hoke
Smith and his minions SO far to the
rear that coming generation will
scarcely know that there ever was an
administration in this country that
sympathized with secession and hated
the soldier. I speak of this party as
| do because it is controlled by the
southern wing; as it barks, SO the
northern tail is compelled to wag.
The Signal, in noticing the rot of
Veteran" (?) thus hounds the soldiers
on, but Democratic veterans are not
to be hoodwinked by such silly twad-
die:
"In another column appears a let
ter to the Signal signed "a Veteran. :"
An old soldier wrote that letter and
although it's terms are very plain, yet
it is only intended as an expression
Of intense indignation which is SO
strong that it can not be circumscrib-
ed or bound. The course of the pres
ent administration toward the soldier,
is such as to arouse them and call
forth a righteous wrath from the
veterans. They have pointed way
of expressing it, not only by the pen,
but by the ballot, and will be heard
from In future elections