Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — SICKLES STLL DEFIANT. [ARTICLE]

SICKLES STLL DEFIANT.

He Siashes Grover Vigorously at the in” for fir. Cleveland. Addressing his old com-: lades of the gallant Third corps to Washington he defended the pension tystem, which recognizes in a practical way the services which -the soldiers of the Union armies had rendered their country in its hour of peril. But he said “You are going Some now, and there Is something I want you to take home with you. Ponder it; teach it to your children; tell it to your neighbors. It is this truth: That the peopled the United States will see that no man is ever elected to an office of profit ana trust to of pensions to therohMereof the^toon.” That was a sabef thrust at Mr. Cleveland, who was never so merry as when hunting for half a reason to veto a widow’s pension. The report continues! “The general leaned on his crutches as he spoke these words, and the sharp, idiomatic, merciless sentence, clean cot as a paragraph of constitutional law, cut through the air like the slash of a cavalry saber. He rammed the words Lome hard, ag Captain Bigplow did the last charge of the Massachusetts battery of the' Third corps, and the effect was at instantaneous as when Captain Bigelow pulled the lockstring, v In a moment what was left of the old Third corps spoke with its old charging ring its opinion of the man whose only joke was ent at the expense of disabled veterans. ‘Three cheers for the man who mads that speech,’ cried Comrade General CSwr, springing to hia feet, and again the charging cry of the old Third corps rang out into the night of Grand Army place and rolled np to the White House/ 1 ..General Sickles was evidently right when he waved his crutch in the Chicago convention and declared that Grover Cleveland would never receive the votes of the men who fought to pre •eejrve the Union.