Show 1 DISGRACEFUL ATTEMPT Tho Republican press has frantically caught at opportunity afforded by the Cleveland and Grand Army incident The local Grand Army Committee at St Louis has invited Mr Cleveland to be present at tho Grand Encampment to beheld be-held next fall in that city The Republican Repub-lican press and party wirepullers have promptly worked themselves into a state of seething indignation at the idea of the Grand Army welcoming Cleveland In other worda it is perfectly awful that a Grand Army Encampment should receive a Democratic President The specious argument advanced is that Hthe Grand Army does not propose to lend itself to any political scheme If a welcome accorded 3Ir Cleveland by the Grand Army is a political scheme on the Democratic side of the fence then refusing refus-ing a welcome is necessarily a Republican Repub-lican political scheme And why it may very naturally be asked should not the Grand Army welcome a Democratic President Is the Grand Army to be looked upon as a partisan Republican organization If so now is as good a time for the Nation to know it as any But wo do not believe tho Grand Army is a partisan Republican organization organiza-tion We do not think the Nation regards re-gards the organization in such light and we are confident that the organization organi-zation itself will promptly repudiate repu-diate this undeserved stigma the Republican party managers are endeavoring en-deavoring to fasten upon it The Grand Army is a National institution Its roster is the Nations roll of honor Its veterans are both Republicans and Democrats and the organization i a source of pride to both political parties alike There can be nothing farther from the motives of the Grand Army than political partisanship partisan-ship and we sincerely and confidently trust that the present disgraceful Republican Repub-lican attempt to vitiate the purposes of the grand and glorious organization will be so sternly and so thoroughly frustrated by the Nations veterans as to preclude all future efforts of a like interested inter-ested nature |