Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-04-16
q. A. n. ADDREss.

impudent and vindictive address
es ever issued to an intelligent,
law-abiding class Of men, and en-
anating from n loyal source, will
be found in the associated press
dispatches Of the 10th inst. We
refer to the address Of the Nation
al G.. A. r. committee to the sur
viving 100000 union soldiers and
sailors Of the late war. While we
owe a great debt Of gratitude to
the men who left their loved ones
and jeopardized their lives that
ours might truly be the land of
the free and the home Of the
brave" while with flowers moist
ened with bitter tears, we strew
the graves of those who fought
and died that we might live and
prosper, yet the patriotism Of ev-
cry true American heart would
impel us to endure the same pri-
vations and meet the same heroic
death which they did, should oc-
casion demand it. The horrible
and sickening details of the war
of the rebellion are familiar to ev-
cry child of the United States who
has arrived at the ago of under
standing. But the conflict was
ended and peacedeclared nearly 30
years ago. The confederate army
was vanquished and it surrender
ed Internationally. Peace was
declared and the south was
compelled to accept the terms of
the proclamation. SO 1t ended;
and under the stars and stripes,
stained by the blood of our fathers
and brothers, we took up the olive
branch-the symbol of peace.
From those ruins sprang one of
the strongest political parties that
this country has ever known. 1t
was born in distress, lived in ex-
travagance and died in disgrace.
Its strength was found in the feel
ings engendered through a nation
al calamity. Following the close
of the rebellion there was organ
lied the National Grand Army OF
the Republic. The full strength
of this organization was given the
republican party in its infancy and
the republican party in turn bowed
to the demands of the G. A. r.
The loaves and fishes were divided
for a while, but in time the
"bloody shirt became an offense
and the magic spell which it sc
long produced was broken. The
lG. A.. r. became domineering anc
exacting and the ire Of the ther
powerful republican party was
aroused; trouble followed, the
breach widened, the thieves fel
out and honest men got their dues
The republican party was wreck
ed and the G.. A. r.. relegated t,
obscurity. We give below a por.
ton of the G. A. r. address il
order that our readers may full,
appreciate the last desperate eff
fort of this once powerful ally o
a once powerful party:
= 1T is to our interest to all vot,
one way and one ticket, then W.
are simply the controlling force il
, politics, and our vote means some
, thing and subserves the great Oh
, ject of all elective power-our mu
tual protection and advancement
IL is the great study of the COW
ardly stay-at- homes and speaks t.
= divide and destroy the soldier vot
by its suicide, setting one of u
> over against the other. They stu
, diously keep us out of their clique
and rings and out of their conven
. tions, too. They all pretend +
> love MS, and yet they all despis
, us because we are poor. We ar
not in it a little bit, and it is ou
own fault, because we do not unit
and cast a solid vote, all one way.
In these days of curtailing o
: denying pensions; defaming, de
grading and depreciating the mel
who saved your country, and rele
: eating us to the rear everywher
to make room for draft-sneaks ant
, towards and their sons, it is higl
time we meet with our sons ant
: agree on a common platform ant
, hurl our vote once in a solid mas
to subserve our own interests only
in 1896. The interests Of the me.
who saved the union cannot antag
/. onize its welfare. Let US deman
our full share in all convention
and on all tickets, township, city
state, county and national, or de.
stroy the party that shall deny i
TO us, no matter what that part
is. Let US send out our ultimatur
to the cursed demagogues an
D millionaires who have been ridinI
rough shod over us in the nam
, of the flag they deserted in Tia.