Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — "COWARDS AND DESERTERS" [ARTICLE]

"COWARDS AND DESERTERS"

The Name. Northern Democrat. Apply to Union Soldiers When They Talk Their Beal Sentiment*. The following extract from the Raleigh News and Observer of Sept, 16 is an account of a speech delivered in that city by ex cfongroasman J. fi. Murphy, of lowa, Sepit. 15. It seems from this that 1 he northers Democrats fully agree Union soldiers, and don’t hesitate to say so when they think they are out of hearing of the old soldiers themselves: “The speaker next called attention to the infamous pension system. It now amounts to $150,000,000 per annum. In a few years more at the present ratio of increase itiwill reach the limit of our revenue. It teas a shame that we should have to put our hands in our pockets to pay pensions to a. lot of cowards, deserters and bounty jumpers.” J. H. Murphy was a member of the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth congresses from the Davenport (la.) district, a native of Massachusetts, and posed in his candidacies and while in congress as a friend of the soldier. This is the way be talks when he thinks he is alone with the southerners and is mivileged to ex' press ms rem semimfccu.