Show IE SISTERS SCHOOL plaqn Ma I r Closing Exercises of St Mnrjnegade cademy Yesterday The jUlle Depart Pro gramme C It1tl e G A R of action and utterances have West Jidorsed by the Tribune j and more Decently by the Des Moines G A R Posthe Tuttle being presentin set resolutions which are calculated to cause I a blush upon the cheek of every right minded citizen be he soldier or civilian Democrat or Republican Two of the said resolutions framed by the said Tuttle Tut-tle read as follows Resolved That a proper regard for common com-mon decency and for the dignity of the official offi-cial position he now fills should have caused Grover Clooland to see that ho cannot expect ex-pect to be kindly greeted by Union soldiers after his attacks upon them their wives and their children in his malicious vetoes of 119 pension bills in which with satanic glee he BO grossly insulted every Union soldier and it would seem tp us he should have sufficient selfrespect not to attempt to crowd himself him-self before the gaze of those who utterly and unalterably despise him Resolved That if Grover Cleveland and his friends insist upon using the prestige of tho Grand Army of the Republic to obtain an audience that he send a substitute and if possible tho person who represented him in tho army during tho war While we respect I re-spect tho office he fills we must still be allowed al-lowed to say that we have no kind feeling for its present soldierhating occupant Here the President of the Great Republic Re-public is charged with lacking common decency His public acts of sworn duty are characterized as malicious vetoes of pension bills in which he with satanic glee insulted every Union soldier not only impugning his motive but twitting him with sending substitute to the army and insulting him by suggesting that he send that substitute to St Louis if he the soldierhating occupant of the Presidential office must crowd himself before the gaze of those who utterly and unalterably despise him The violent and indecent language of these resolutions betrays Tuttle as their author and clearly indicates their partisan parti-san motive and purpose The purpose of the attack is to prostitute the G A R organization to partisan ends in the interest in-terest of James G Elaine who not only hired a substitute but was mean enough subsequently to beg his city to refund the money to him unlawfullywithout a shadow of right in law or equity And this indecent assault is made upon President Cleveland whose Administration Administra-tion has done more for the soldiers than any previous one Tens of thousands of pensions long delayed by Republican Administrations have neen promptly granted under Cleveland to worthy i veterans whose claims had been in I many instances rejected finally under Republican rule Never before were our pension laws so liberally administered The veterans know this the whole country knows it and yet a few blatherskites like Tuttle and the New York Tribune for partisan ends insult traduce and threaten with insult and injury the President of the United States because he is a Democrat and has respected his oath of office I Truly whom the gods would destroy they first make mad |