Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-26
SOLDIERS RESENT AN INSULT
Veterans at Lincoln Indignant at the
Bryanite Misrepresentation.
STILL LOYAL TO THEIR OLD COMRADES
Men who Marched and Fought I'm the
Same Grand Army with Me-
kinlcy VIII stand
by Him.

LINCOLN, Sept. ESPECIAL Some
thing is likely to drop II the threats of a
few Lincoln old soldiers are carried into
execution. There was recently organized
in this city an "Old Soldiers Bryan Club, 81
comprising eighteen veterans of the civil
war and number of much younger men who
we're in swaddling clothes and knicker-
bockers during the late unpleasantness. This
! organization has had the efIrontery to rep
resent to the newspapers throughout the
state that the membership comprises los
soldiers all residents OF Lincoln. At a
recent meeting of this club resolutions were
| passed condemnatory of the campaign now
being made by Union Generals Alger, Por-
ter. Sickles, Sgel and Mulholland and Cor
poral Tanner. The resolutions went on to
say that they had no right to make a stuml,
ing tour, despite the fact that the free sill
yer candidate for the presidency is making
one of the most gigantic campaigning tours
ever entered into by any candidate for any
office in the United States.
One of the members of this Bryan Sol
diers' club" was never a member of the
! Grand Army and could not be admitted to
| membership, owing to Irregularities in his
discharge papers. 1t is now threatened by
| this organization that they propose to meet
| General Ayers party at the train on the
| that their presence is not wanted in Lin
| coin, and warn them to refrain from any
public speaking within the limits of the
| capital city of Nebraska. "One of the best
| evidences said an old soldier today, "of
| the fact that these Bryan soldiers do not
| know much about the war is their implied
| ignorance of the character of the men
whom they would warn. The generals who
have faced rebel shot and shell on so many
battlefelds are not the kind to be awed and
| intimdat6d by men in buckram who pro-
| pose to dictate the sort of campaign speak
ers who will be permitted in Lincoln"
Should this expressed resolve be carried into
effect on the night of the 29th something
will, doubtless be heard to drop, inasmuch
as hundreds of old soldiers say they will be
on the ground to see that the union gen.
erals are respectfully treated"
MISREPRESENTS THE SOLDIERS.
| KEARNEY, Neb. Sept. 25.-To the Editor
| of The Bee: The World-Herald of the goth
nst. has a list of old soldiers which it is
said will vote for Mr.. Bryan, and that paper
| is rying to convey the impression that the
| old soldiers of Buffalo county generally are
| against their old comrade in arms, William
| Mckinley. | want to correct that impress
sion. AT this time fully three-fourths of the
| old soldiers of this county are for McKin,
| ley and Hobart, and in my humble opinion
| by November 3 many who now think they
| will vote for Bryan will line up with their
comrades and vote as they shot, for good
government, good money, good times and
| good men, as against sectionalism, repudia-
! tiOn, fifty cent dollars and that class o:
men who think local authorities are bet
ter judges than the president" as to when
| the national authority should be invoked to
suppress riot and disorder Notwithstanding
| the interests of the general governments
may be involved
| The WorldHerads effort to coddle the
| boys" as shown by the quotations in The
| Bee of the oath inst, under the caption
Then and Now won't wash. When it
| "cussed" them in 1892 it was after the eeC-
| ton the coddling process comes now before
the election. Then it was sincere; now it Is
| not. The World-Herald's list of old soldiers
| is not correct, several whose names appear
! in that list are well known Mckinley men
others are nonresidents of this county, and
two or more, it is said, not soldiers al
| all. Now that the Bryan boys have gone
on record, those who stand by their old
| comrade and their principles wish to go on
record also, that they may not be put in
false light and to that end list will
soon be furnished giving the names of the
| old soldiers Of Buffalo county who will vote
| for Mckinley and Hobart. In this campaign
of principles, protection and patriotism, the
brainy business elements in the democratic
party put country above party and vote for
| Mckinley. In such contest very few OF
the boys who wore the blue propose to be
found among the stragglers
d. A. DORSEY