Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Soldiers Crowded Out; Snubbed by Beveridge 1 ' Major W. W. Robbins, president of the Persimmon Brigade, late* of company G, 21st Ind., and company D, 118th Ind., and a member of Major Robert Anderson Post G. A. R., says in regard to an attempted interview with Senator Beveridge: "I do not feel that it was a personal affront, since I visited the senator in behalf of others. It is the 4,000 veterans of Indiana who were affronted. .1 believe, and for this reason I. have prepared a statement, telling just what occurred, so that the veterans of Indiana may judge for themselves. “I cannot conceive for what purpose Senator Beveridge would desire to address the old soldiers, unless to make promises, for truly he cannot commend himself for anything he has done in the past for the veterans. “I was one of two members of a committee which waited on him when he was here last winter. Our mission was to present to him a petition bearing the names of more than 4,000 ex-soldiers, asking for the enactment of a dollar a day pension law. "We, the committee, waited for an hour and a half before we were admitted to his presence. We presented to him the petition of our comrades, and after glancing it over, he said it would be necessary for use to secure the influence of the president, the vice-president, the committee on pensions and the speaker of the house if we expected to succeed. “We told him that it was for this very purpose we had called upon him—to ask him, as our representative, to secure such influence and help us in our efforts. “Just then his telephone bell rang and he asked us, the committee, to step into the hall just a moment, while he answered the call. “We did so and remained there for an hour waiting to be recalled to his presence. But we were never recalled and finally went away without further recognition from him. But while we waited he and his page ushered politicians into his room from the reception hall. “But now that he seeks his personal advancement by reelection, he desires to address my comrades. There is a great difference between then and now. Last winter he could afford to push aside the representatives of more than 4,000 soldiers, and let them wait in his hall like schoolboys for a summons that was entirey forgotten in the more pressing business of greeting politicians. Would Senator Beveridge care to explain this action to the veterans he now professes to desire to serve?” Comrades, you now have the fruits of Senator Beverjdge’s services for years. You have received no favors. And you now have the pledge of Mr. Kern, nominated on a platform embodying a plank declaring for dollar a day pensions that was written by the editor of this paper and placed in the platform by the chairman of the democratic central committee of this county. —Delphi Citizen-Times. The above, as noted, is taken from last week’s issue of the Delphi Citizen-Times, published by A. B. Crampton. .Mr. Crampton is a veteran of the Civil War with an enviable record for service; having served four years as a member of 48th Ind. Vol., wthout a furlough except when he veteranized. He was color bearer of his regiment and came home as Captain of his company; and is Past Commander of the Grand Army Post at Delphi and stands high in the estimation of Grand Army circles. As he states, he wrote the pension plank in the democratic platform. That plank reads as follows: “We favor the immediate enactment of a pension law by Congress providing for a pension of not less than one dollar a day for all union veterans of the Civil war,” and the convention that adopted this resolution named John W. Kern as candidate for United States Senator. Capt. Guthrie, himself a soldier of the Spanish-American war, is in hearty sympathy with this plank, and if elected to the legislature will vote for Mr. Kern for Senator. One year of action from Senator Kern will be worth more than twelve years of promises from Senator Beveridge. '

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Next Sunday morning the subject of the sermon will be “The Arm of the Church.” In the eventhe pastor will use the stereoptican to illustrate a sermon on “Korea ” Everyone welcome.