Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — V. HOVEY’S SPEECH. [ARTICLE]

V. HOVEY’S SPEECH.

OLD SOLDIERS READ. j ■ ■ ■ [istory of Pensions—How a Repub- I i Oongr*** Treated the Veterans. 1 lowing are extraoti from Gov. Hovey’* at Boiton, Aug, 8,1890: :e who fought last, in the rebellion and nnDufiiot of 1861-65, lands and life pensions i refused, with billions of »oree ox publio j and a surplus in our treasury that the in1f our statesmen bat been unable to exhaust! I i the oanseof this niggardly and parsimonlict of ourirepresentatiTes in oongress? tribute it to nothing but envy, hatred and i of gain. The banks of deposit of the States, which now hold many Bullions of without paying interest, do not want the demoved for any purpose. The shipping ine clamoring for mor* ship* and ‘‘subsidies’’ l by the government The river and hurdlers in oongress are devising schemes for g and swallowing up many millions to en- • constituent*. us by veterans, with hundreds of thoq,i nines, have been sent to oongress, and have ted in the oeliars of the capital unread, alls constitution declares that "the right to hall remain inviolate. 1 ’

he honor ol presenting to the present eon- ] Itions ol nearly ev#ry grand army post in 1 id States, representing uesrly 600.000 veter- : ing lor the passage ot s lsw in conformity i e resolutions (for ssrrlee pensions). , so petitions were wholly unheeded and a bill ulatsd and reported by the Invalid pension ie of tbs house, whioh entirely ignored the if the petitioners, the hill reported being d by a caucus of the majority, prevented « o pension legislation. ' , ' . t :*nt sot of congress will bring some relief to i in the asylums and poor-houses, of onr nd to many helpless widows, but it wilt one, not even those who are now reeelring f - pensions, except those who will take the c ith prescribed by the second section of that tis called sMisabillty act for the purpose, 1 1, of disguising its real character. It is a *nt b'it Rwo>iM We I ««r. *->->-« .——t-