Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-31
MAKES NO APOLOGY.
Candidate Bryan Has Nothing to
Offer the Old Soldiers.
They and Their Friends win Not Assist
in Putting In Power = Party That Wnl
Lower the Value of the Ma
tons Currency.

Mr.. Bryan, popocratic candidate for
president ON the issue of degrading the
American dollar to the value of so cents,
has spent the last two weeks racing
over Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michi-
gan, where he delivered 100 so-called
speeches on political questions.
One class of people-the pensioners
turned out largely to hear what he had
to say on one subject, which deeply
interests them, viz, the kind of money
in which their pensions are to be paid
II he and the popocrats come into
power next March.
At the last official report the number
of old union soldiers and soldiers
widows who drew pensions from the
government in money Of the value of
gold residing in the three states of
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, in
which he delivered those scores of
speeches, was as follows:
| Wisconsin pensioners. ..,,,...........,..N,73S
| Minnesota pensioners ..................16.203
Michigan pensioners ,25S
Total old soldiers. ..........."" .2O2
The amount of pensions paid to them
per year is close to S14,000,000. Most
of these men have sons of voting age.
Many have brothers that did not serve
in the army and brothers who have not
applied for pensions. Most of those
brothers have sons who are voters. They
have also sisters who have voting sons.
Take these 10000 soldiers in the three
states named, with voting sons, their
brothers and sisters and their voting
sons, and they will cast November 3
not less than 100000 votes.
Every one of these voters is bitterly
opposed to having the pensions of the
old fighters for the union cut down so
per cent. or any other per cent. The
! old vets are uncompromisingly hostile
to being paid in deprecated, half-value
money. Fifty-cent dollars don't go
with them, however it may be with GER
tain men of doubtful morals who want
them for the purpose of foisting them
on their creditors from whom they got
| good 100-cent dollars.
If their comrade, Maj. Mckinley, lie
elected president the old vets feel per-
fectly certain they will continue to be
paid in good, full-value money, as they
have been for the last 20 years.
But If Bryan, the confederate and
popocratic candidate, is elected on the
issue of changing the money standard
from gold to sixteen to one 50-cent free
silver dollars, will not that be the kind
of money in which their pensions will
thereafter be paid? Because, IL it Is,
that would cut down their value one
half below what they now are or have
been for many years.
1t was natural, therefore, that these
old union soldiers and their sons.
brothers and nephews were anxious to
hear what the popocratic presidential
candidate might have TO say on this
very important matter to them. He
well knew they were quite anxious to
have him explain how he proposed to
have them paid in good, full value
money when the popocratic platform
and scheme propose to pay all other
classes Of creditors bad, half-valuc
money for the good money due them.
What did Mr.. Bryan tell them2 Moth
ing. What explanation did he make
None. What coincidence did he offer
them? None whatever. What apology
did he make for advocating a scheme
that would defraud them out Of one
half the value of the pension money
congress had voted for their support?
He offered no apology or excuse to
them. He treated them and their PEN
sions with silence and neglect or con-
tempt. Yet he wants them, though no
friend of theirs, to vote for him and
against their own interests and their
true friend and old comrade. Maj. Nc
Kinley. He has raced up and down and
backwards and forth over those states
on a special train since the LIST of Octo-
Der, making speeches In favor of cheat
ing creditors, and that Is all the salts
faction he gave old union-savers and
their voting relatives and friends. And
he has done this same thing in all the
other states where he has spoken ever
since he was nominated.
How many of the old soldiers and
their voting relatives propose to sup
port such man for president, and vote
for popocratic candidates for congress
and candidates for the Legislature, to
make United States senators next win
ter, to pass law debasing the Amer
lean dollar to the value OF SO cents, and
have these sixteen to one dollars, worth
so cents, thrust on the old union de-
Tenders as good enough for them and
their services2 II the old soldiers and
their relatives are human in feeling and
are actuated by sentiments OF right.
fair play and honest dealing W. ]. Bryan
will not receive the vote of any Of them.
No, not Of one.-Chicago Tribune.
Bryan,a Audnoitv