Show THE REPUBLICAN IU5500 The Republicans of three of tho Western West-ern States held their State Conventions yesterday and the unanimity with which their respective platforms reiterated reiter-ated the jingo utterances of Blaino of tho day before differing only in phraseology phrase-ology points out tho fact that Illaino is again in harness for tho Republican nomination nom-ination and his lieutenants have received re-ceived orders to toot in chorus with his exalted horn thy tho way of novelty tho Ohio Republicans inserted this following fol-lowing in their platform ItuiUlrrax that to tho Union soldier ami sailors In the lato war wo see n elubt that can not bo computed sod it la the duLy of the Government to Kraut pensions and establish es-tablish homes for nil such as art disabled or in want and with equal larneatiiosu wo condemn tho heartless nnd wholesale vetoes by President Cleveland of tire private pension pen-sion bills recently passed by Congress It would bo a waste of space to notiio this Bluff only that in another plato they arraign tho President for tire largo appropriations appro-priations made ono of Our largest of which is tho item of pension money called for by bills Introduced by Democrats and fcicneel t by him iiureabing widows and dejiendentB pensions to tire amount of 0000000 early Tho DLMOUIAT fully exposed tho hypocrisy of the plea thai tho vetoing of certain pension bills was heartless but as tho Republicans can find no material of better strength this must bo again exposed All until bills were for tire benefit of men who had submitted sub-mitted their claims to tho Pension Department De-partment uhen it nut ill the liunili of Jlejiulllcam anil they were Ly II Jlrpnb licaHiUliniiiiilralioii t Iowli out iii north less In order to hao a means for picking pick-ing flaws in the Presidents action tlnsu name claims w era introduced in Congress Jtepublicans knowing that no possible construction of tho law would permit of their approval by tho President only on thus score of charity and ho could not 10 charitublo with tho peoples money line Republicans thought they nan a chance to catch tho soldier vote by whooping on this matter but the recent aclion of the great majority of this Grand Army Kn campmcnt at San Francisco in voting down a general pension law proves that tIre soldier clement is composed of men who arc as deeply read In oliticnl science as the professional politicians who sought to spring this trap and the Republican party is welcome to all the BtiotiKth it can gain from that kind of a plea Tho crow the ancient and unsavory crow which the Ohioans bolted on the Pajno matter must have been distasteful dis-tasteful to men who prato so much of imlcpcntlonta and pride Til their actions They were compelled to 1 placate Ilalstead and dared nol offend Logan They made their cry on the subject sub-ject very like this nAly appointed corporal cor-poral who rammed his head in an empty cask and called out his awn name with the corporal attached to drink in tho melody tho sound unaware that the whole corps laughed at him Tho Ohioans called out Pajne and boodle but they now find thai Ihe vvholo political i > world laughs nt their action ac-tion nnd Ilalstead 1 will damn them for their faint elulorsel1ent whilo Logan Dim will pass them by in contempt Tho Iowa and California Republicans followed itt tire salllo Key and this similitude of ull to tho key noto of Jingo Ulalne proves that they are again about to try tho experiment of forcing him on tho American people Judged by the emptiness 1 empti-ness of their platforms and tho magnitude magni-tude of their promises they will have arc a-rc > ettion of previous experiences in loss |