Show THE G A It I > POLITICS I A bold attempt is being made to use the G A R organization to aid tha candidacyof Major MeKlnley During Dur-ing the annual reunion at St Paul a letter was addressed to all members of the G A R calling on them to ralty to the support of McKinleY to save the country from threatened anarchy and lawlessness The letter caued a greac deal of indignation among the members mem-bers but it seems that those who put fonth the letter are going1 to pursue their I plan of bending the influence of the I organization to aid McKinley General i D E Sickles Franz Sigel Russell A I Alger and others including Corp Tanner Tan-ner are to tour the country in General Algers private car and address the soldiers and others General Sickles says they want to shake hands wlith the soldiers and tell them to stand inline in-line as they did in 61 There are more than a million of them in the country says he and they can do alot of good for McKinley besides voting for him as a great majority ma-jority of them will do Speeches are to be made in Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Kansas Kan-sas Missouri Illinois Kentucky Ohio and Michigan Those who are in charge of the speaking tour have decided to imitate Bryan in one thing they propose pro-pose to have speeches made from the I rear end of the car at stations en route The aim and objects of the G A Rare R-are not to control or influence politics one way or another it is a nonpolitical nonpolit-ical association and this appeal to the members in the name of a duty owed to chat country for which they sacrificed so much is an attempt to enlist the noblest sentiments of the human heart under false pretenses and for base purposes We mistake the temper of the G A R mem of the west if they do not protest and in no uncertain terms against this attempt to betray their organization into the hands cG the very men who would fasten fas-ten upon the people forever the grid I standard which would make of them I slaves as much as were the black men from whose limbs Lincoln struck the I manacles We hope that every post in the west no matter which way the sympathies of its members may be will protest against this attempted debasement debase-ment of the organization to the furtherance fur-therance of political schemes |