The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-10-15
PRIVATE SOLDIER
WRITES WITH REFERENCE TO
CONFEDERATE VISITORS.
He Also Tells of the Heavy Pensions
the Gold standard Generals Draw,
who will Appear Here in the
Near Future.

Editor News Democrat: Well, the ex-
rebel battalion from the Valley Of the
Shenandoah, in Virginia, headed by
Mark Hanna's band, has been marched up
and down the streets of Canton, and up
under the plastered arch Of art triumph
ant. And the presidential candidate of
loyalty and charity has told them how
honored he was by their presence, and
gush in prose and gush In poetry, well
punotuated with the rebel yell, has
vibrated all the air. And the Woman's
Relief Corps, Of Canton, devoted also to
loyalty and charity, had prepared and
spread magnificent Confederate dinner
for the invading hosts in jeans and but.
ternut, and members Of an Organization
kn own as McKinley's Post Of the G. A.
r. ALSO devoted to the perpetuation of the
glorious deeds of the loyal soldiers Of the
Union in fighting rebels have stood In
blue uniforms on our streets, as Repub-
lican campaign club and lifted their hats
as the ex-rebols marched by with the
rebel yell, triumphant.
Verify, these be glorious days. Only a
few brief years ago these same devotees
to the heroes of the Lost Cause were
boisterous in their venom against these
same rebels, and 1t was fav )rite senti-
ment of Mckinley, that was repeated on
every stump in this district, that while
all Democra were not rebels, all rebels
we're Democrats.
Who has chanGedY Surely not the ex
rebels. l last heard the rebel yell almost
thirty-two years ago, ana It was never
before heard on the streets of Canton
until yesterday. Let me ask what these
same G. A. X. men, so-called, would have
said, mad delegation of ex-rebels called
upon the Democ nominee for presi-
dentY Would not these same bogus
patriots have exhausted themselves
morally, mentally and physically In
denounoing the movement as an outrage
against LOYALTY and patriotismY These
same bogus patriots, only last spring, in
their official capacity, denounced the
erection of monument in Chicago in
honor of the Confederate dead. Now
they organize to pay tribute to the living.
Who has changed, and what has caused
this change? Is the Grand Army Post,
to which Mckinley belongs, no longer
devoted to charity and loyalty, or does its
loyalty to the stars and stripes consist in
devotion and banquets to the men who
carried the stars and bars on so many
battle-felds Of the Confederacy?
Oh, where, pray, tell me, where has
that spirit of loyalty gone toH Has it
gone into Confederate hearts, shat are
won't to come to Canton at So. 80 per
heart (gold standard trust money!, to
return again In full venom and vigor
after the election, or has the spirit of
1865 gone glimmering forever?
BIT bark! Did you hear the forces on
the other side, that are coming to Can
ton in the same desperate British causeY
Yes, we have heard the slogan The
Big Generals are coming to Canton
They are coming in General Alger's pri-
vate palace car. This is not 49, so
snap and no Confederate breakfast will
De begged from charity. Oh, no. Gen
eral Alger has realized about So, 900, 900
since the war in the great Lumber Trust,
and he can we'll afford little expense
to tote the so-called Union soldiers
aorund the country, when he has Mark
Hanra's pledge in writing for cabinet
office (secretary of war; in his private
box in his home safe.
So General Siokles is coming to Can
ton. Sickles, who has made about $s,-
500, 900 since the war as corporation
lawyer of New York trust; Siokles
that Tammany took up and sent to con.
gress, and who afterwards betrayed
Tammany, and became a sycophsnt of
Grover Cleveland, and who is now one
Of Growers cringing cucokos Sickles
draws $4,000 per year pension while we
have soldiers in Stark county who were
worse disabled than Sickles in battle,
and who are paupers, today drawing ths
beggarly pension of $3.50 per year
General Howard Is also coming to
Canton and he has also been rushed over
the West, talking the continuance Of the |
present terrible times to the pauper
soldiers, who have been ruined and |
wrecked by the tens of thousands by the
same damnable British gold policy. |
Howard Is also one of the very shrewd |
In money matters, and the treasury Of the
United States (now bankrupt) yearly
gives out So, 900 pension to Mr.. Howard.
Of course he was a good soldier, and so
we're million others, and we have SOL
liers right here, within sixty miles of
Canton, worse disabled in the war than
Toward, who get but $17 month, or
1904 per year. Does General Howard
,ome to Canton to teach the great humane
of equal and exact justice to all
nen, when he gets s.. 500 per year, while
nen equally as valiant and brave and
Who are ruined in health by war and
uined in fortune by the villainous gold
only get miserable pittance.
When General Howard or General
sickles hear from the men who fought in
he ranks, in Novemb ber, they will ascer-
ain that the true patriots of this republic
lave a higher and better appreciation of