| Show CLEVELAND AND THE aloir FOR the second this thia year the I 1 grand army of the republic ra na an pr or has been brought into disrepute it by ft a few of its bigoted members at a grand demonstration held ol at wheeling west virginia last friday about members of 0 tho the grand army who participated in it refused to pass under the portrait of president cleveland suspended from the window of 0 a newspaper office the entire columns mado made a detour and dropped the colors in passing the picture we think that it is about time these ridiculous proceedings were stopped if the straight up and down policy of 0 president ident cleveland is 13 too much for them thein for th alio sake ot decency dont let them show their petty spleen president cleveland lies has undoubtedly displeased some of the G A R by ills his pension vetoes yet not once has he vetoed a bill but what lie did so BO on pure principle the new york tribune recently gave room to a series of letters written by some of the members of this organization condemning the actions of cleveland in this respect and endeavoring to prejudice the veterans of the war against him but the following extract from a well written letter to th the chicago times by its ito washington correspondent plainly gives tile the lie to many assertions contained in those letters ile iia says bays letters from grand army men rope repent t the th old accusations that la in big pen vs va loeb the b president insulted old soldiers by the he terms he ha used bud and several of these correspondents mention nion lloa shirks and coffee cobee coolers co olera in quotation marks as specimen 0 a amens of u the offensive nal nfl phrases used by t tha to pro president 19 ident la in life his messages mesi agGS the writer of I 1 ahl h Is lately had bad oc cablon to road all the presidents pension vetoes and he ha could recall no uie ua ol al these terms or any terms them but bill to do the grand army lie be reil read all the he ve toes over again in a search for the ithe tio luiU Bee in not one of theme messages Is fi thera any such language the ho Ereal preil dant dent nowhere uses any terms as whee coolers bounty bounty jumpers or liny any other terms than those of the highest respect when speaking of soldiers as aaa a whole or of any olais class of soldiers old lors when be ba vetoed bills 0 a p penilton n a ion men who deserted men maa who cover told d the tha same story alory twice about their in aa who wore wora at their home at the lh time liar 0 of the battles they bey said th they y were in men man who wore shot by fedi federal eral prison guir lizards a for t orylan lag to escape tio be used tan lan giago thai wn was not complimentary to those individuals but be did not cot evan tea la in regard to worthless classes that ara kr rp r slanted in every army ani that a vet ew old bid told ter knows were ere well wall represented la in the federal armies especially to ward the end the mn mm who tty say tb president has haa called feder federal I 1 soldiers loot cor hio fee coolers or shirks tell lell lie ile and the newspaper that prints these letters tappo approvingly v in gl and all over aba con boua n try rs fg willfully and wantonly circulating 13 I 1 that hat it 11 knows unless it buffen from laala invincible to be ilea lor for l or heavens lake cannot aba grand army men who are ar qua lag with I 1 the be president preal dont because lie be vetoed bills bill to pension men who deserted and men who never saw law service ler vloe and wen men who plainly invented their alleged ill S man in bolt who are i an n incubus coeany to any army cannot the grand army mon men la in this quarrel confine themselves to lb hatrul struth ut will the heroes of camp douglas and the patriots patr lol who guarded P prison I 1 lean camp at elmira and the men wh glinted lor for 1000 or 1500 and never go got to the he I 1 front please mop no lying about wits what the president said eald it afi impossible to R ap pp ties that the iba real soldiers who went t to 0 the front andl and fought are guilty ol of such alyin lying thy they 0 are o the the last men in the wor world to 0 come cam C to the delenie tense of iha be me men 1 1 whose private release bills have hava been V vetoed by the president |
