The evening times., 1896-08-10
|APPHl|NG TO y[TERlhs
Nations Defenders Urged to
Rally Around Mckinley.
DANGERS or THIS CRISIS
Membersofthe U Union Veterans Patri-
otic League Issue an Address-Com-
binations Which Now Threaten the
Integrity of the Country
Again Needs the Soldiers Help.

viving soldiers and sailors who served 10
the Union army ana navy during the war
OF the Siebellion by the Union Veterans
Patriotic League, OF which Major Gen.
Daniel E. Sicsiesis presideDtand Major GEN.
William B. Franklin ami Major Gen. Horace
Porter vice presidents, has been received
10 this city.
1t is signed by large number of promi-
nent officers of the Union army. many o.
whoIu are residents OF Washington or well
known here. Among the stgners are:
Daniel E. sicklcs major general United
States army.
Horace ortcr, late ma Jor genera Uuited
{ States volunteers.
Franz siseI. late major general United
States volunteers.
Oliver o. Howard. major general United
States army.
James 3. Naeley. late major general
United States volunteers
Arson G. McCook, late major general
Upited States volunteers.
Powell Clayton, late brigadier general
United States volunteers.
James 4. O'BeirDe, late brigadier gem
eral United States volunteers.
Frederick D. Grant, son OF Ulysses 8.
Grant, general United States army.
Harris on Dingnan, late colonel New
York volunteers.
Hilman A. Hall, late major Sixth New
York cavalry.
! H. H. Wells, late hrigadier general United
States volunteers. afterward governor OF
Virginia.
Harry White, late brigadier general
United States volunteers.
Elijah A. Morse, late private Massa-
chasetts volunteers, now member OF Con
gress.
Redfield Proctor, late colonel Vermont
volunteers, now United States Senator.
Allan Rutherford, late brigadier gen
eral United States volunteers.
N. j. Foote, Int major New York vol
unteers. now residing at,washington.
THE ADDRESS.
The address IN as follows:
Comrades: Your country is again In
peril In the present Presidential cam
paign dangerous combinations again
threaten the integrity OF the govern
ment. Misguided men oonspire to bring
reputation, iishonor and financial ruin
upon this nation once saved by Your
ylaor.
..Tbe men who once answered the call
to put down rebellion and save the Union
have lost none OF their love for the country
and their devotion to the flag they fought
TO uphold, and they see in the present sit
uatton an attempt to tarnish the good name
OF the republic and break down its most
cherished institutions.
THE Stars and Stripes symbolic to
those who offered their lives in its de
/. feDse a country united and powerful,
respected at home, hODored the word
over Tor its power, its justice, and still
more for its integrity, honesty and fair
dealing.
Comrades, you believe in liberty under
law, in public order, in the maintenance
of our courts OF justice, and in national
honor and good faith. You are unalter-
ably opposed TO the red flag OF anarchy
and mob rule. We believe that you re-
sent with earnestness all attacks upon
the executive and judicial departments
OF our government and commend all
measures which yindicate the supremacy
OF the law and restore public order when
endangered.
MANY OF our geat leaders have been
mustered out-GraDt, Sherman, Sheridan.
Mcclellan, Thomas Hancock, Burnside,
Garfield, Logan, Dix, and many others
have gone to their reward. We're they
living they would he united with US in
this crisis as they were in the days OF
the war. 1t remains for us, their COM
rades, who followed where they led to
guard the good work tkey upheld while
living and to preserve afl they helped US
TO gain for our country.
WHAT WOULD BE LOST
"Should this dangerous and revolution
AIRY political conspiracy againA the finan-
cial honor and integrity OF the govern
ment succeed, every pensioner, every de-
positor In savings bank, every policy
holder in an insurance company, co-opera
tive bank and building and loan associa-
ton and assessment insurance society
would lose one.half of what is due him by
being paid in 50-cent silver dollars. The
price of everything the workinsnan buys
would be doubled, but he would kave TO
struggle and wait long before he secured
any substantial increase of his wages.
"FeeliBg assured that in this crisis you
the Union veterans of the late war, are al
most unanimously united in favor OF an
honest government and a faithful adher
ence to the principles for which we Con
tended, we appeal to You to lay aside all
partisan differences, to prefer country t
party now as you did in the dark days
Of the civil war, and rally to the sup
port of our gallant coinrade, Major Nc
Kinley, the first private soldier who has
! ever been nominated for the high officf
of President OF the United S)Rtes, who
stood shoulder to shoulder with you in
many memorable battles, and for two
long years carried his muskct and shared
the toll and danger which fell to the 10;
Of the men in The ranks who defended the
Union; and who today stands for the main
tenance of thc good name and honor d
the country
A CALL TO ACTION.