The National tribune., 1895-01-17
GOOD RESULTS ALREADY APPARENT.
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fulness to the Union veteran, nothing
gives us more satisfaction than the re-
suits already apparent of the urgent
advice given them last Fall to vote SOL
idly for the Republican Congressional
candidates against all opposition oppo-
nents. They responded splendidly to
that appeal, and the effect has been all
that we could have hoped for.
There is not politician from the At
lantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes
to the Gulf, but what fully understands
and frankly admits the entire signifi-
canoe of that display at the ballot-box
of the aroused wrath and strength of
the veterans. We see and hear of it
everywhere. The newspapers that for
years teemed with villification are now
silent or apologize. Many of them are
trying to bring forth fruits meet for
repentance in articles as blunderingly
Mandatory as they were formerly blum
deringly defamatory.
In Congress the soldier-hater is dumb !;
the shrek of the pension-roll purger is
no longer heard in the land. The Rep
resentatives from the North and West
are full of righteous indignation against
those whose malignant vituperation pre-
cipitated the cyclone. The Representa-
tives of the slums of New York and
Boston and of the Solid South are re.
garded as the Jonahs who wrecked the
party ship. The men who we're wrecked
"make no bones" of talking this right
out in meeting" This comes out more
unreservedly at the Friday evening ses-
sions of the House, which, under the
rules, are devoted to considering private
pension bills. During the last session
these meetings were aggravating farces.
The attendance was always very small,
and at any time that there appeared any
likelihood of favorable action on bill,
Kilgore, Enloe or someone of that ilk
was sure to stop all proceedings by rails
ing the point Of /" No quorum"
At this session the attendance has
been much larger, and the interest ex
hibited very decided. Much feeling has
been shown against the mo quorum "
quibblers. There is no justification for
these bubbles; they are purely malici
Gus, since the House merely sits as
Committee of the Whole to consider the
bills presented to it by the Committee
on Invalid Pensions, and those which it
decides to report favorably must after
ward be considered by the House in
regular session, consequently the number
present need not necessarily be more
than those who are actively interested
in the success or defeat Of the bills at
this stage of the proceedings.
Last Friday evening Mr.. Springer,
Democrat) of Illinois, asked favorable
action on the Senate Bill to grant pen
sion OF 500 month to Gen. John A.
McGernand, of Illinois, when VIM. A.
Jones, of Virginia, who represents the
district in which Fredericksburg and
Spottsylvania are situated, raised the
point of "No quorum" The usually
mild and gentle Springer felt the break
ing up within him Of a Sangamon River
of Wrath, but be restrained himself to
saying:
want to appeal to my friends, especially
from the South, not to intervene objections
of this kind. If you will look at the records
of the next Congress you will find that only
10 Democrats come to that Congress from the
Northern States; and if ihis policy is to be
pursued none will come from the Northern
States TO the next Congress. Applause.
appeal TO the gentlemen TO lay aside their
feelings about matters of this kind, because
know, while they are honest in it, il is mis-
interpreted in our portion of the country.
The people there do not look upon ii in any
other light except that of hostility to the |
Union soldier. 1t is not done in that way, |
but il is conceived in the spirit of economy. |
1t does not come to our people in any other |
light than one of hostility and of offense TO |
them. Renewed applause While you are |
doing this to protect the Treasury, you are |
doing great injustice 10 your party friends |
and TO distinguished officers of the Union |
array, and the country generally regard it |
as making an attack on the great aud dig
tinguished defenders of the Union cause
lApplsuse.
The irrepressible LATE Pence (Popu-
LIST rose In dire Indignation, but Jones
had him ruled out, until Jerry Simpson
came to bis aid and secured him the
privilege of speaking, when he eulogized