Show PRESIDENTS PRESIDENTS' WIDO WIDOWS WIDOWS' WS' WS PENSIONS PENS A dispatch from Indianapolis asserts that members of the Grand Army of the thc Republic in Indiana are ure exceedingly excited and angry because of the prospect that Congress will pensions to Mrs 1 Harrison Hanison and Mrs Irs McKinley as widows of decea deceased ed Presidents It is alleged that the Grand Army posts post throughout the State are passing gassing inflammatory in in- I resolutions denouncing tile the proposition tion and all who may vote for it Y We Ve have the greatest admiration and respect for fot- the old veterans of the Civil war So has th the country Congress appropriates annually for their benefit in pensions a sum stun about equal to the tile yearly cost of the entire German military establishment including ng pensions and Germany maintains an army of three-quarters three of a million m men n on a peace footing Rut Hut the question of what it costs to ref remember remember re re- re- re f member our aged soldiers ex-soldiers aside we must suggest suggest suggest sug sug- gest that these Indiana Grand Graid Army men might be bein bein bein in better business We Ye do dot riot not remember that they offered any objection when the widow of Gen Tames James A. A Garfield was was pensioned and it does seem seeni inconsistent that now they should create a disturbance disturbance dis dis- dis when it is proposed to deal in like manner manner man man- ner ncr with the relicts of their two old comrades in arms General Benjamin Harrison and ana Major Wil Til Wilham William liam ham McKinley The movement is altogether in ill bad had taste will shock the country and will not re redound redound to the credit or standing of its ith authors an and azid promoters |