Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-19
FROM GRANT
TO MKINLEY.
How AppOmattOx Paved the Way
For Manila and Santiago.
A NATION BUILT BY A PARTY.

An Ex-Copfederate veteran Talks of
How the Heart of the south was
Touched bv the Generous Words of
Grant, which the Republican Party
Has Made Good, Until we Have One
Country Agaln-A Rousing Soldier
Meeting in support of the Soldier
Ticket-Peace Mt Last Between phil
adelphia Factions.
Especial Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Aug. 15.-The beginning
Of American victories over Spain was
not at Manila, but at Appomattox.
When General Grant said to the beaten
and broken Confederates after the sur
render, Keep your horses; you will
need them to plow your fields" he
sounded the high keynote Of that con-
sstent Republican policy which has
resulted in making this nation a union
indeed, not a mere collection of COM
munities pinned together with bay
onets This has been brought strongly
to mind by two events which have
taken place here within the last few
days-the visit of the survivors of
Picketts division as the guests of Phil
adelphia Grand Army men, and the
meeting of the Pennsylvania Associa
tion of War W terans' clubs, for the
purpose of reminding the old soldiers
and their sons, to whom the war of the
sixties is only heroic hearsay, that
there is a soldier ticket on the Repub-
a - .Na
which deserves their votes as repre-
sentative of both the past and the
future of the country.
However they might appear at the
first glance, no two meetings were ever
more consistent with each other. Both
represented the comradeship of all true
soldiers who, in reaching out the hand
of gallant recognition toward all brave
men who stood in the opposing line, do
not forget the fraternity of men who
have slept under the same blanket and
faced the same fire. veteran of Pick
etts who left a large fraction Of him
self in Pennsylvania after that last
mad dash at Gettysburg and now walks
on crutches made this point very we'll
He was a typical back country Virgin
ian-neighbor, no doubt to that one
who shocked one of the hallboys at
the swellest hotel in Philadelphia by
appearing upon the ground floor after
midnight, in sock feet, with his sus-
penders hanging from his shoulders
and the ice water pitcher in his hand,
inquiring where the pump was-but he
is notable man in his neighborhood,
has been continuously justice of the
peace for 20 years, and served a term
| in the legislature. And while he might
not be up to date in some peculiarities
of modern civilization, he is full of
homely common sensa and useful
knowledge.
Experience teaches the observing
that there is many man who is liable
| to blow out the gas who is nevertheless
| fit to make laws for the directors of the
gas company. The squire said:
when General Grant started your
party on that high plane Of treatment
of our people he put us on our honor.
| We were down on our backs, and the
/ Republican party was throned in abso-
lutte power. In our anticipation It was
only a question how many of our lead
ers you would consider it necessary 10
hang You might have treated us as the
prostrate inhabitants of conquered ISL
ands, and you received us instead as
fellow citizens, and lived UP to your
proclamations that you had been fight
ing with us for four years only to
keep us in that relation. Much has
been said of the magnanimty, the gen
erosity the charity and so on of the
treatment of the south by the north
after the war, but IT took the present
war to call proper attention to the fore
sight and broad craftsmanship of the
Republican party in following the pol
icy it has pursued. Mckinley has
shown himself worthy of the example
of Lincoln and Grant. When he contin.
ued Fitz Lee at Havana and then gave
old Joe Wheeler the chance he Sought
to go out and get shot at under the old
flag he warmed our hearts and turned
a clinch on the good work of 80 years.
what do we folks think of Nc
Kinley? What did you think in "a
when II was tried to put somebody elsC
in Lincoln's place to settle the job? NJ
president since Lincoln has grown upor
the country after his election so fas
as Mckinley, and there are a lot of u:
down south who never voted anythinl
but a Democratic ticket who are mo-
only going to be for Mckinley mex
time, but who are for the ticket thai
represents Mckinley this fall. TIL,
party that has fought the war must b,
the party to settle the issues growing
out of the war. now as In 65. We ma,
be Just at the beginning of our troubles
and all the nations of this earth mus
be taught that this country stand
right behind its president, as the nortl
stood by Lincoln. His defeat woulC
have been worth an army to the Con
federacy then, and any doubtful sount
that would go out to the world from ou
voting places this fall might cost US an
other war. You--we-have one partl
in this country which has proved 1t
self capable not only of conducting
great war, but of gathering its fruit
and dealing with the questions whicl
follow, and the enthusiasm for its sue
cess in the elections this year is jus
plain horse sense. And So" h
added, with a sweeping gesture to
ward the room where the war vete
rams were declaring their loyalty to tn
Republican soldier ticket. 80 is that
I wouldn't give shucks for an old sol
der who wouldn't stand by another oil
soldier whenever he got a chance"
The War Veterans had a remarka
bly, representative and earnest meeting
by the way. On the roll call 81 coun
ties responded, and. before the presl
dent OF the association, Colonel Rober
B. Beath, finished bis opening address
a number OF others came IN. They wer
men whose names stand for something
too. AS a sample, take this comlnitte
on resolutions.
Hon George w. Hood, Of Indiana
chairman. Tbon,aa q San,nIa ot Al