Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-18
FIGHTING Records
Of the Rival Candidates for Gov
ernOr of Ohio.
KIlBOURN AND NASH SOLDIERS
Official Records Of Inc TWo-The Hero Of Six
teen Battles and Three Breyeis as Against a
hIneJ-Oay Soldier and big hOunly-Whom
Will tho Soldier Vote OF Ohio Select - tho
Soldier or The Coffee COOsrp

Curious to ascertain the war records
of Governor Geo K. Nash the Repub-
lican candidate for reelection In Ohio,
and that, of his Democratic rival, Col.
James Kilbourne, we copied from the
official records the past week the sub
Joined histories.
OF course, our Washington readers
will accept this as piece Of news
merely but our Ohio patrons will at
tach a deeper significance to the mat
ter The Republican party has kept
itself I'm power by the two great shib-
boleths Of
Love for the Union Soldier"
"Enfranchisement Of the Negro"
How much the Union soldier is loved
by the present Republican Administra-
tion the columns Of The Globe, with
names, dates, persons, etc, have truth
fully shown up. But we, nevertheless,
accept as n standard truth that the
great mass Of Republican voters prefer
a Union soldier with a record when
there are honOrs to be conferred. An
choring our faith i'm this belief we
first reproduce the soldier record Of
Col. James Kilbourne, the Democratic
candidate for governor of Ohio. Here
it is. from the official records ON file
I'm the War Department:
"Col. James Kilbourne; enrolled
July 49,, 1862; was appointed I'd Lieu.
tenant July 22 1862; was appointed
lst Lieutenant Dec. 8, 1862; was ap-
pointed Captain Dec. 81, 1862; was
mustered out with Company IL, 95th
o. v. l.. August IA, 1865; appointed
Brev. Major U. S. Vol to date July 2S,
1865: appointed Brew 1t. Col March
81. 1866, to date July 28, 1865; appoint
ed Brev. Colonel April g. 1866, to date
July 2S, 1865, for faithful and meri-
torious service during the war.
Engagements the Enemy
Richmond. KY, Aug 80, 50; Jackson,
Miss, May IA, 1868; Vicksburg, Miss,
siege, May to July T. 'G8; Vicksburg
Miss, assault, May 19 and 20, 1868;
Big Black River, Miss, July 6, 1868;
Brandon. Miss, July 10. 1861 Hicka-
hala Creek, Miss, Feb. 10, 1864 Gun
town. Miss, June 10, 1864; Harrisburg,
Miss. July 13, 1864; Tupelo Miss, July
IA. 1864; Old Town Creek, Miss, July
Is, 1864; Little Harpeth, Tenn, Dec.
10. 1864: Nashville. Tenn, Dec 15 and
16. 1864; Pursuit of Hood Dec. H.,
1854, to Jan. I. 1865; Spanish Fort,
Ala. March 26, 1865, to April 8, 1865 20
For meritorious and gallant services
in front of the enemy Col. James Kill
bourne received three brevets He
participated i'm 10 battles, sieges and
assaults, and as became a man, sol
dier, and a gentleman, saw the thing
through and fought to a finish, being
out, It will be observed, Au-
gust A. 1865, or four months after the
memorable surrender at AppomatOX
where the chivalrous Lee surrendered
his untarnished sword to the victo-
riOus Grant Having
Fought for the land his soul adored,
For happy homes and altars free"
the Confederate chieftain, bowing to
superior force and equal valor, gave up
the unequal struggle and the veXed
question which separated the sections
was forever settled by the highest tri-
bunal Of mantle arbitrament Of the
sword.
Where was the Republican candi-
date for Ohio during all these four
years of bloody war? Was he at
Vcksburg when Kilbourne led his
i'm the assault? Did he parti-
cipate i'm the one or the other Of the
battles Of Nashyille-or did he, single
handed and alone. pursue the fleeing
Hood?
Not much, the slow fire Of patriot
ism did not burn i'm the breast of the
candidate for governor of
Ohio until all the great battles Of the
war had been fought out by men Of
the Kilbourne stamp In the last call
for "9O-day' soldiers, the Republican
candidate for governor Of Ohio took
the biggest bounty he could get, and,
with a knowledge that the
war was over and with the hope that
he would never see a live "rebel' or
hear their dreadful battle YELL he
shouldered his musket and went into
camp guarding disarmed "JOhnnies' %
Such is the record of the loyal
Union soldier" whom Mark Hanna,
and GrosvenOr will ask the
people Of Ohio TO honor in preference
to a man whose soldier record is SUI
perior to all four combined. Nor has
the Democratic candidate begged, play
ed for nor engineered the procurement
Of letters from commanding generals
curing any deficiency in his record or
boosting him as a valiant soldier Ia
et al.
Colonel Kilbourne is as modest as
he is brave, and, like a true soldier
and Democrat, lets the official record
speak for itself.
How many brave and heroic soldiers
have we not seen manufactured since
the war by letters Of generals, when
the said soldiers were candidates on
the Republican ticket for Office? Look
lt the absurd and ridiculous figure
these letters and manufactured stuff
made our President cut before the real
soldiers who know what fighting is
They made Commissary Mckinley feed
the men in line Of battle and issue ra-
tionsl There never was and never
will be such a situation I'm war! No
wagon in modern war
fare has ever been within three miles
Of the fighting line except by an acct
dent, and then certainly not for the
of ratiOns Hence Com
Mckinley, three to ten miles
in rear Of the fighting line, issued no
rations unless. indeed, he put a few
hardtack I'm his pocket, and, leaving
his wagons and neglecting his duty,
the intervening distance to
feed a single soldierl
So It is with the other manufactured
records Of certain heroic Republican
chiefs, whom we have seen strut their
brief hour as candidates for governor
Of Ohio and disguised the real soldiers
with after the war" letters from re-
nowned generals who knew them not
on the field Of battle. but learned to
Tread their political pulls in civil life
and hence these letters.
But here is our Ohio Democratic