Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — G. A. R. [ARTICLE]

G. A. R.

Logan Virtually Expelled for Not Paying His Dues—Bolting from Blaine—A Bepublican Grand Army Man Fires Hot Shot Into Logan and Blaine. [Albany dispatch to New York World.] The following letter has been sent by Mr. H. C. Hunt, a member of the Orand Army of this city and a well-known Republican, to a friend, also a member of the G. A. R.: Dear Sib : I have been known to you for many years as a most uncompromising Republican, and I am now going to surprise you by stating that for the first time in my life I cannot support the nominations of the Republican party. If there is an organization in the world to which I am attached it is the Grand Army of the Republic, and when I see that they are trying to .use it for Surely political and partisan ends, I believe it i time for an honest Grand Army man to rebuke such attempts to lead us like cattle to the shambles by either voting against the candidate or not voting at all. There is another reasontwo in fact. Onr party has nominated a man for Vice President whose record as a Grand Army man is not very creditable to our organization. He was virtually expelled because he thought so little of it as not to pay his dues. Then, again, for the first place on the ticket, our /party has nominated a man who has been assailed as corrupt by the very best elements in that party; and this very day there is no Republican paper or orator to offer the slightest defense to the charges brought against him. Therefore, for this election at least, 1 shall vote for the reform Governor—Grover Cleveland. Yours truly, H. (L Hont. ' - - - ■ ■ -■<**' l ,<*<l ’ If Cleveland was a good enough man for Mr. Blaine’s friends to make Governor of New York, perhaps some Republicans may think he Is a good man to make President.—ijoscoe Conk ling.