The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-09-13

1859, and he says ever since he has
been there, not single application
of that kind has been refused, but
always granted, the same as other
roads in the State have done.
The following copy of letter sent
to Mrs. H. S. Edgerton, Matron of
the Soldiers Orphans Home, will
explain itself:
February 9th, 1870.
Mrs ID. s. Edgerton, Matron Soldiers' Or
phans' Home, Xenia, Ohio.
MADAME:-It was supposed that the enclosed
passes mad been forwarded to you long before
this. But to-day they were found, having
been mislaid.
Please find herewith (24) twenty-four blank
passes signed by the President
Yours, respectfully,
H. M. BRONSON, q. I. A.
Mr.. Collier, in 1868, may have ap-
piled to Mr.. Williams and been re-
fused. This we have no means of
knowing. But Mr.. Sloane says he
never applied to him for transporta-
ton either by letter or otherwise.
The very first affirmation of the
Telegram is a falsehood. Mr.. Col
lier did not say shat IN 1868 he ap-
piled to Rush r. Sloane twice for
passes, DC" He did not state the
time as reference to his letter will
show. 1t will be perceived that the
main stress is laid upon the year 1868
when "the whole pass business of
the road was in charge of Mr.. J. C.
Williams" But to those who under
stand the matter it will appear a most
feeble denial from the fact that it
sOas not TIL after 1858 that the work
was undertaken, and of course no
application of the kind was made
during that year. 1t was during the
session of 1868-69, when the Legis-
lature was in the hands of the De-
mocracy, that an effort was made to
get an appropriation for the purpose
of providing sn Orphans Home for
deceased soldiers children. The
effort failed or account of the op-
position of the Democracy; and
then the work was undertaken by the
soldiers, and Chaplain Collier ap-
pointed to canvass the state to Sc
cure by private subscription, what
the State should have provided. Mr..
Sloane's denial, as above, refers to
the year 1868, and as no application
was made that year, he could easily
make the denial as the Teleqram
gives it.
Mr.. Collier commenced his work
early in the year 1859, and it is rea-
sonable to suppose made his appli-
cation at the time of making it to
other roads-before he commenced
his mission. Mr.. Bronson "took
charge of the General Ticket
Office IN august, 1862" &C., and
the denial on his part refers to mat
ters occurring subsequent to that
date. But here is a period Of seven
months of 1869, not embraced in the
denial, and in which Mr.. Collier had
asked and been refused. The denial
therefore amounts to but a feeble
evasion, and should Mr.. Sloane make
a denial over his own signature, he
would be speedily convicted by
Chaplain Collier with more direct
testimony. Sloane dare not deny 1T.
As to the note of Bronson covering
the passes to the Matron of the Or
phans' Home, it can readily be ex-
planned as a dillatory act forced upon
them, after refusal, by a knowledge
that that road alone, of all the roads
in the state, was pursuing niggard-
ly policy toward the orphan children
of deceased soldiers. But it does
not disprove the fact that the appli-
cation had previously been refused.
Sloane gains nothing by such a de-