| Show demand A STIRRING ADDRESS all are advised to vote together axt sib lcy is coming special to ane ENQUIRER J april 10 to present indications and sen ciment wilt be mixed at tha twenty birot annual soldiers reunion to be hel durine june next today there is over the ot the national committee james L dalzell inan IVi iliam A Sien feer secretary an address to the soldiers Sol diera ot the union or their docs the opening paragraphs are aa follow comrades Com radea inasmuch as the donatiu t n and laws of die grand army of the republic forbid any partisan political m men of all B coman bih that organization it becomes mary once more for survivors of tho I 1 aion army to take the initiative io kat political campaign of so near nt and come fr beliber de liber ahon and decision in their areat an nuil council of the national reunion thia year to be held in june the men w io bavei the government atwould be a A torin its it is ditth time for us to get together formulate nr and make our demanda accordini to the of 1890 very imperfect as mr potter in the chapter so far as the alon of soldiers eol diers is concerned there are vet Bury iving not lefa anan anion soldiers eol diers bailers bailors and marines by t ie laws of increase the jwj millions of men at the doss of the war he moat virile and prolific men of generation have doubled their numbers many beart ago and it ia a estimate est imata to add to the ka COO voles we cast ourselves the K of our aona who have reached ir making a grand abere cate of our political efting force now not beag than votes out of a t al ot 18 that will ha cant in as i of course moat of our votes are n he north and as anio puts new york pennsylvania and in liana furnin Led out of a total 0 floo sent to the war and from t aso went at the cloeo ol 01 the ef liers in the great hey will de c ie the result in it is well to re that ohio alone furnished soldiers sol diera to the war while calif ania nevada oregon nebraska nor ido kansas buwa minnesota and I 1 iv farni hed less than w york contributed mere than all NW N W by the west is angely recruited from the ranks in i i h the controlling factor in every ate west of the ohio as well aa eget of united they and their doaa can dictate the stoics of conventions and chions ct ions it ig only aben ane split up al a l scatter and bill each others votes caa lioi them for vanona cartiea that t i ir anie is cancelled and counts botu e in the erand audit it IB our inter to ruet to all vote one way and on ket then are simply the control i K force in politics and our vote something and Buba erves the u pat object of all elective power our ignal uro action and advancement it is he reat study of the cowardly at bomea and sineaka to divide and the vote by ilg eui cido M tint one of us over against the obber T isy keep us out of their c buee and rinzs and out of ther con fley all pretend to lore uy a i I 1 yet they all despise us because we all nur WB are not in it a little 1 it aad it is sur botn fault because we i not unit and cast solid ballot all lewak in ibele days of or pensions defaming degrading a 1 toe men who saved ur country and relegating ns to the r tr to P ak cowards and their bons eons it in h time we apet with our bona and r e on a common platform and harl ur vote ouie n solid masa to ur on if only in i the ol 01 the men who saved the inon cannot antagonize antaR onize ita welfare t us denand den and our full ahard in alac n stirns and on all tickets township rv county aej national or atie eliell deny it to us no matter what the party ii let us send out our ultimatum to the cursed demagogues and millionaires who bare bean riding roughshod over us in the name of the flag they deserted in xit let na teach conr sons before we M bacue to meet tha cowards who left a to do the fighting while aber 1 at home coining our blood into money and who for thirty yeara have been filling us with the east wind we must unite we must bdeau ont the loyal men ot the north will tote with ug it is for thiis purpose we ahall here in june and let every state be represented there by brave arne men |
