Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — Cleveland and the Old Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland and the Old Soldiers.

General Sickles was too gallant a sddier in war to be a hypocrite in time of peace. He knows what the war cost him; he has had bis personal share of tbe suffering, the privation that the men who went to tbe front endured for the Union cansp. It was in an outburst of honest indignation that ho said In Washington: ___. “Yon are going home 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 people of the United States w|li see that no man is ever elected to an office of profit and trust in this country who opposes the payment of pensions to the soldiers of tho Rebellion.” Gen. Sickles it a Democrat; but he always has been first of ail a patriot. It is only natural that the brave old soldier should despise the candidate who, In vetoing bills for the relief of tbe wiJ ows of soldiers, was capable of making the women to whom he denied bread the targets of his fatuous wit. For such a person loyal veterans can have no sentiment except disgust, and it is difficult to believe that any Union soldier, or any one who has a feeling of gratitude toward the veterans who fought that a government of the people, for the people, and by the people, should not perIsh from the earth, can support the ticket of Cleveland, the stay at home, and Stevenson, the Copperhead.