Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-09-17
APPEAL TO CIVIL
WAR VETERANS
Self Respect COmpaIS SundeTlng
Of Political Ties.
GOOD ADVICE TO COMRADES

One Pension Bill Vetoed on a False
Pretense by a Republican Governor
and Another Defeated by Act Of SEN
ator slsson, Republican Candidate
For Auditor General.
Veterans of the Civil War are be-
ginning to take notice For years the
Republican party. especially in Penn
sylvania, has considered the soldier
vote one of its principal assets. The
veterans themselves have encouraged
this fraudulent pretense, and profes-
sing to believe that the war of the re-
bellion was a conflict between the two
parties, have with practical unanimity
defeated such grizzled veterans as
Wellington Ent, w. w. H. Davis, Rich.
ard Coulter and others for the reason
that they we're nominees of the Demo
cratic party.
without going into details the fact
that fully half the troops of Pennsyl-
vania enlisted in the Civil War were
Democrats is susceptible of proof. It
is an undisputed fact that Democrats
in Office have been more generous to
the veterans in dispensing favors than
Republicans. 1t was a Democratic
state senator, Hon ]. Henry Cochran,
of Williamsport, friend and neighbor
Of G. LaRue Munson, the present nomi-
naa of tha nauoaratfc va,t.- TO- g,,-
tice of the supreme court. who first
introduced into the legislature a bill
providing for a state pension to vet
Grams of the Civil War and a Republi-
can governor who vetoed It. During
the last session of the legislature
every Democrat in the house voted for
a state pension bill, which was smoth-
cred in a senate committee named by
Senator Sisson, the Republican candi-
date for auditor general this year
Truth travels with a leaden heel"
according to the proverb, and facts
tardily make their way through preju-
dice, but the veterans are coming to
understand that it Is the Democratic
party TO which they must look for jus
tice. They are growing old and there
are not as many of them as there used
to be. But their needs are increasing
as their years multiply. and the politi-
cal records of the state admonish them
that it is time to look to their real
friends. That they are following this
Dstnral impulse is proved by the fol
lowing appeal to the Civil War Vet
erans," which has recently been sent
out to his comrades in Blair county by
a battle-scarred veteran of Altoona:
Comrades-There are times when a
, mans self-respect compels him to cut
asunder the political ties which have
bound him, and vote for his dignity.
his manhood and his pocket. Such
time is at hand.
You all know how the nearly unani.
nous vote for a soldiers pension by
the state Of Pennsylvania was defeat
ed by the veto Of the governor of the
state, on the false pretense of there
not being any money to pay the
amount appropriated, and those of you
who have kept In touch with the treas
ury report Of the state know that there
was at no time less than twelve mil
lions surplus in the state treasury.
while the amount appropriated was
only about five millions.
At the last session of the legislature
another pension bill was passed by
the house, and sent to the senate,
where II was buried in the recesses Of
the senate committee on finance.
Senator Albert e. Sisson was and is
president pro TEN. of the senate. AS
such president he made the committee
on finance and when the house bill
granting the pensions was sent to the
senate It went to Senator Sisson in
the regular order, and by him was re-
| ferred to a committee that he had
created. Ali attempts TO get him to
have 1t reported to che senate for ac.
tion failed-hence he is responsible
for It being defeated the second time.
Senator Albert E. Sisson is now the
candidate of the Republican party for
auditor general. II Is well known that
the Republican management OF the
party Is against soldiers pensions by
the state. AS the law prohibits them
from running Governor Stuart again
they now propose TO reward Senator
Stsson for killing the PENNSYLVANIA sol.
diers pension bill by electing him to
the Office Of auditor general
II you. the soldiers and their sons
vote for Senator Sisson and elect him
as auditor general II will be a plain
declaration that you don't want a
acted
If you defeat Senator sisson, as You
have the votes to do, the next legisla-
ture will pass your bill
II Is squarely up to the soldiers ana
their sons. Elect Sisson and your bill
| Is killed forever. Defeat SissOn and
your bill will be passed by the next
legislature. What will you do?
A REPUBLICAN SOLDIER.
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