Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Page 4

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GOOD ENOUGH.

Tin' city election in Imluiuanlis •■i m .silay was a glo'rious victory, »t alone for the Kepublichilpart) hut for all true friemls of good - .vounnient and decent and hon.>t polities. The Coy gang, the "tost reckless aj\d utterly. {mij -a-unolessly corrupt political • ique west of the Alleghany •ourAaius, have heen thoroughly i-itoes! out. The Republican Mayor has Teen re-elected- by a _ x'atlv increased plurality. The • ;v Clerk has been regained, and tie city council is Republican in ! x>th branches. ( It was a gr6ftt victory nnd tmlj prophetic of greater ones to . fol«>w. ■: mapolis is a ‘‘hand-writing on the vail,” piophetic of what is surely >ming, in 1888. The great advantages expected , .. accrue to the Democratic party from the visit ot Cleveland, are manifested in the shape of greatly iuereased Republican majorities in Indianapolis. We do not endorse quite all. of the sentiments and opinions expresaed in the communication •ended “Man Worship,” but for i he most part it meets our approved, and is interesting reading, Jn my case. An exchange remarks that “it is wonderful how quickly soma people make the discovery, when they tie asked to pay for their paper, i hat they don’t want it any longer .r can’t afford to take it.” And our • •xchauge might have added, how •><‘on.lhey find out after reading he paper for years, perhaps, that they don’t get it more, than half he time and don’t read it when a* The President’s non-partisan (?) swing around the circle is an occasion for the exchange of a great • cal of strictly Democratic tally. At Indianapolis lie had fine words for Hendricks, but ire mention of Morion. At Terre Haute he laiuU < d Voorhees but overlooked the • Grand Old Man;” “Dick” Thompson, who sat by the side o of Yoorhees. It may be remembered in ; Parity, however, that Mr. CleveI uid knows very little about the ally great men of this country, ad cares less. His own greatness is sufficient for him, and overshadows all others.—Logansport Jourtxfil. Rensselaer is one of the finest little towns for a pleasant place of 4 .-sidenee, we know of anywhere, . ad that is saying considerable.. • >ae of its very greatelt advantages i-i this respect, is our public school, *. hich is maintained at a standard ...f excellence far above the average in towns of the size of. this. In -'Act we don’t believe that there .re many towns in the state which aruishbetter educational facilities in their common schools, no mater what their size and wealth lav be. This item is one of the i|gi§ importance to country peodo who are thinking of moving nib seme town or village, for the ; uke of better schobfihg pflviregek Uan they ean obtain at home.

The President's Pension Record.

Facts and Figures Showing what Lies Have Been Told in hie InterestSpecial to ttw la-lianapoli* Journal. Gettysburg, Bept. 27. -The following letter from Mr. Hdwaril McPherson to Senator Allison will be read with interest by all classes of readers, and especially by the ex-soldiers of the union: Gettvsbuyg, Pa., Sept. 10,1887. n;.ii. Wn. 0. .Vlli-«a. l)uliu<|in\ lu.: My DearHii'—The “statement” to which you ask my attention, respecting “President CleyclandjS official ive<ml on bniou soldicr>,'" copied from the National \ iew, a Washiiigtou (1). C.) weekly paper, hears the maiks of preparation fora purpose. That purpose is i tb show that the Cleveland admin-1 iktration is more entitled to re-1 spect and confidence of the Union ; soldiery of the country than the : administration of either Grant, or , Hayes or It seeks to j make the impression that Cleve- j land has been more liberal and more just to the soldiery than | either of his predecessors. And it claims, in terms, that Cleveland has approved seventy-seven more private pension bills than Grant and Hayes combined, and 127 more than Arthur. The “statement” is false both in its asaertions and its suggestions. Hirst—As to its assertions: The [ pension story of the Forty - ninth Congress is this: I'eupitm bills pnv-ril in two sessions PC* Hills approxcu tnrtievelanil MIS sWlls vcioeit by Cleveland ..lzl liitis Kmdiik-. tun shy lapse ot time wittiouf _ Llevi-laliU’s approval 15! 4mi*- ,, po*-*wtixtwi»)- dovolana 1Tntfil #«* Of the bills'passed, 717 were in the first session of that Congress and 202 in the second session. Of bills vetoed, 101 were in the first session and 2H in the second. Of bills become laws without* the President’s signature, 134 were in the first session and two in the second. , . ■, - The “pocketed” bill was in the first session. I make up this table from the Congressional Record, the United States Statutes and other data, and believe the figures to be exactly correct. The truth, therefore, is that President Cleveland “appioved” about two-thirds of the bills passed, “vetoed” over one-eighth, and “dodged” as to the remainder. Second—As to -the suggestions of the statement: Its purpose is to contrast the Grant, llayes and Arther pension records with Cleveland’s, to the advantage of the latter. Now what are the facts about those administrations? Of 423 pension bills passed under t-lie Grantrsdministration, Grant vetoed eight. Two because the claiments’ names v r ere then on the pension roll. Another, because the clause in the act about the miuor children of the soldier had no meaning. Three jwere vetoed because the names of the claimants were borne ou the army roll as deserters. Another, because the name of the pensioner was not correctly given. And the last, because the soldier’s company was not correctly stated? He signed 485. This is Grant’s record on pension vetoes. What are Hayes’s and Arther’s ' vate pension bills were passed. He approved them all. Under Arther, 73G private pension bills were passed. He approved them all. Cleveland’s4pprovals were but GGB out of 242 passed, and are thus 120 less than Grant’s and Hayes’s combined, sixty-eight less than Arthur’s, out of a total 153 greater than the former, and 213 greater, than the latter. The contrast is what might have been expected in advance of investigation. Grant, Hayes and Arthurjwere all actually engaged in the suppression of the rebellion, -and were in full personal sympathy with the armies of the Union. [ Cleveland’s record'as President is not out of Harmony with siveness as a citizen during the ! struggle. It is true,,as claimed, Cleveland I signed the widows’. increase bill and the crippled soldiers’ increase i bill. It is also true that lie signed [the Mexican war pension bill, which awards" a service pension as distinguished from a disability : pension to the soldiers of that-wai. But it is also true, that within ten days thereafter he vetoed the, bill i which proposed application of 1 substantially the same principle to the army of the Union. His , friends have the floor to align that i extraordinary discrimination aiagainst the Union .soldiery with this extraordinary pretension of friendship for them. i it is a part of the 'same programme to claim, also, that at this date there are more Union soldiers

in the service of the government than at any previous period This ought to be true considering that the laws inherited by this administration from its prtdecessors distinctly direct that the preference shall always be given, other things lieitig equal, to the honorably discharged Union soldiers. If not true, this administration must have steadily violated the law. But in view of the proved misstatements touching pension bills, and of what is known concerning the methods adopted in filling those places of appointments to which the civil-service law was constructed not to apply, and as to v.ich therefore, there was held to be no limit to the discretion of the appointing power, I am warrant* <1 in saying that until the last claim be clearly proved by publishing lists of removals and appointments made, it must suffer from the disci edit thrown on its twin. Undoubtedly the Pension Office is doing u great deal of work. Congresb intended that it should, when the additional agents and clerks liberally given -that office to meet the new and increasing demands upon it, left the chief without excuse for delays. Had the Commissioner of been less vigorous in administration, he would have been simply derelict in duty. But the fact that while he lias been granting many pensions to Union soldiers, and widely advertising lit, his own immediate chief, and indeed the whole administration have been engaged without advertising it,dn “making fin average” by providing comfortable and responsible Department positions for large numbers of representative Ku-klux of 1885’78.-' This has certain elements of fitness in it. An administration which was made by the Ku-klux a possibility in our politics could hardly be expected to be indifferent to the aspirations of the agents who chiefly brought it into being. In this respect, also, there is a contrast between Grant and Cleveland: Grant did release from the penitentiary near the close of their terms of imprisonment some of the Ku-klux leaders who professed repentance and promised obedience to law. But he did not invite them to share with him the administration of the government That crowning act of indifference to malignant crimes, against citizenship was reseived for an administration which contains within its circle department chiefs not one man with the imputation of having actively helped his "country in its -hoer—of peri i, anti which now, ludicrously enough, seeks to ,pose as the special friend of the men who snatched it from the brink to which, in zeal for slavery, the Democratic party had hurried it. I. Urn, very respectfully, Your obedient servent, Ed-ward McPh ebsox. Look to your best interests and buy your school books at the post office. Cheap! Cheap! I buy my stationery direct from ! the factory, buy cheap and sell cheaper, try me.

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