Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — CHEERING CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

CHEERING CLEVELAND.

The President’* Name Warmly Received at a Soldiers’ Reunion. [Auburn (N. Y.) Special.] The republican politicians are making a frantic effort to show that President Cleveland is hated by the old soldiers and all organizations of old soldiers, and yet in this city to-day, at a meeting of 150 old soldiers, the name of President Cleveland was received with applause. It was the annual reunion of the Nineteenth New York volunteers and the Third New York volunteers, and there were present 150 of the survivors of these organizations. The meeting was held in the drill room of the armory. One of the speakers was Col. John Ammon of New York. He spoke of what this country owed to the old soldiers and then gave the substance of an interview he had with Commander Fairchild of the Grand Army of the Republic, after the visit of the latter to Washington last winter in the interests of the soldiers. Col. Ammon said that Gen. Fairchild had told him that he visited the president while in Washington in reference to the pension bill. “Gen. Fairchild,” said Col. Ammon, “told me that the president had given him the most positive assurance that any pension bill which the G. A. R. men would unite upon and recommend would he promptly signed by him. [Applause.] Gen. Fairchild is a good, straight republican, but he told me this.” Col. Ammon also criticised Gen. Grant for the reflection which the latter in his book cast upon the conduct of Brig.-Gen. Tedley after the explosion of the mine at Petersburg.