Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — The Vetoes Are All Right. [ARTICLE]

The Vetoes Are All Right.

[lndianapolis News.] The republican clamor against the president’s veto of a number of private pension bills is neither reasonable nor likely to avail the party much. Everybody knows the facility with which personal and private legislation can be pushed through congress by adroit lobbying and shrewd management of a well-paid agent among the members, with little or no knowledge in any but a few confidential operators of the truth of the case. The president’s vetoes, so far as we have had an opportunity to examine them, show good reasons for withholding his approval. Some of the applicants present no valid or legal claim. Some are fraudulent and some are apparently an exhibition of “cheek,” pure and simple. The fact is, that the existing laws cover all the meritorious eases, with rare exceptions, and the volume of new pensions poured out of the commissioner’s bureau every day is conclusive proof that the cases of deserving claimants are not neglected. It is well enough for the tax-payer that the careless or hasty action of congress is supervised by as vigilant and cautious an eye as the president’s.