National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-27
BRUTAL AND oowARnLY.
An Attack ON the CommissIoncr OF re
sIOns.


leading editorial appears in the Indianapolis
Sentfnei ofihc 18th instant headed "Pouslons and
Politics" II Is brutal and cnlumnious attack
upon the private and public character Of Colonel
w. w. Dudley, our courteous industrious and
capable Commissioner Of Pensions. The Senfind Is
probably the most INSCRIPTIONS and malicious
Bourbon pNrer in the whole country. Its chief
owner and leading editor are old wings, who
nave been living on crow so long that their entire
digestive machinery is diseased, and being in
chronic state Of fermentation and eruc,ntion,
everything cmanating from them about pol
itical opponent Is sour and fctd As n sample Of
the Seniiners utter lack Of honesty and integrity,
and its DIT gnnd capacity TO garrote md kniie ana
tingnishcs the assassin and Nihilist, an incident
may be related of the 1880 campaign. The Sentinel
jumped, with
HUNGRY HYENA's EAGERNEss
at the luscious rrpa,t afforded IN that Morey
forgery morscl Of carrion-thrt foul vlllniny per.
netrated on the nmentod Garfield. Daily howlcd
tic Sentinel, prooaimng this Infamous and reptile
libel on Garfield Though the fac simRe printed In
NE Demociatic press proved II tobe a forgery, and
though Garfield solemnly pronounced II forgery,
nc SMmd all the mOro furious grow in It's
demoninc proclamation of tho gcnuinencss of that
stupid counterf, Ting. Finally, When the scOnn-
utels were caught md weakened, and tho reaction
had come. and the honest heart nnd level head Of
ihe country were donouucing the stupendous
bourbon fraud. the Sentinel had pointed ont to il
lNuisputable proof of the forgery. The Sentinel
editors virtually admitted they were convinced
that y was forgery, but with s,old Indifference to
public boleyo Garfield wrote 1t, aud we're going to
make 1t SLICK live can" Now, as to
MS DIATRIDE AGAINST COLONEL DUDLEY.
The gist of i is that Colonel Dudley is an OK.
treme Republican, and that he resenls The attempt
to impose on the country the imputation that SEN
ator voorhees, sthe nc plus Mira "soldiors ricnd;'
and, to avert this impending calamity, that the
Colonel secretly lets Republican Congressman
sneak In and open communication with soldiers
who have filed their claims through Democratic
congressman, and thus steal
THE DEMOCRATIC THUNDER.
The Sentinel makes the following allegation: "As
soon rs Dudley runs across claim which has
been filed by Democrat he holds Il BBel.
can sg sa ior or see member from the
SION SION -nlg' John smith, with a large amount of
arrears! is about 10 10 allowed, thereby giving the
Republican member day or two previous
hciary In advance of the Democratic member.
OF course this is preposterous calumny Colonel
Dudley has no more knowledge of the claims filed
ny Democratic Congressman than has the narrow
and malicious minded editor of the Sentinel These
claims come ~ IN their order through the regular
channels and take regular routine course on the
official records. Nobody but contemplate liz.
notamus, unable TO com prchend the vast and com
pick business Of the Pension Office, with its bee.
DlVe OF iOO clerks, could BIO gully of so gross an
nbsurdity as the suggestion that the Commissioner
of DIMENSIONS, sitting in his public office,
CROWDED WITH PUBLIC business,
End surrounded with callers from o n. m. to an.
m, could peep into every pending claim of tile
quarter of million of them before his office and
discover the occasional one " filed by a Democrat"
were, the dramatic fool of the Sentinel should have
SAID ana send ior or see Republican Con.
gres man ana let this other fellar" get his work
Ill ahead OF the unsuspecting Democrat
THIS Is, INDEED, PATHETIC SPECTACLE
for the unwashcd rural Bourbon. But nobody will
indulge broader grin Mt the SenHners stupid ma.
llgnancSy than these same Democratic, Congress
men. The Sentinel quotes pretended letter from
an anonymous masquerading as a soldier who
had been taken into Senator Voorhees, embrace,
but whose success in his pension case, he claims
was first announced to him by u Republican Cor.
gresham. The soldiers name is very convent.
enty withheld and The Septiners yeracity is saved
never was such an instance. Like the Morcy
letter of fraud, which the Sentinel championed SO
phraseoogy verbal proof OF Its fraudulent coneoc.
ton. twas composed in Senate committee room
or in the sanctum of a Bourbon paper.
THE SENTINEL" CLOSES AS FOLLOWS:
1.-THE soldiers of Indiana know that in Senator
voorhees, they have friend watchful of their In
terests and ready TO advance their welfare Just
now Commissioner Dudley is asking Congress to
pose is to enlarge the capacity of the Pension
Bureau as political machine, especially for car.
rying Indiana at the next election, and 1t will be
we'll for Democrats in Congress to watch with nm.
firing vigilance his maneuvers.' The reference
TO Senator 10 -, voorhees, yearnlng to advance the
with the stab at Colonel Dudley for asking Con.
gross to give the Pension ONCE clerical force
ulOng the settlement of the claims
pending before that bureau. Not content with
impugning Colonel Dudley's motives in asking the
| additional clerical force the Sentinel virtually
OPPOSES THE INCREASE OF THE FORCE
This is equivalent to denying to thousands of sol.
diers and soldiers widows the pensions TO which
they are entitled. Denial now may be denial far
all time, for they are dying off one by one like Mi
humanity Every soldier who has a pending
| claim in the Pension Office should feel that the
Sentinel Is his worst enemy It sabs him in the
| dark, while protesting friendship. The ring of
| claim agents oppose Congress giving to Colonel
Dudley this extra f!rce. Why? Because 1t is to
Element of claims just as long as possible. Arc
Senator Voorhees, and his organ. the Bourbon SEN
| tinel, the attorneys. of the claim agents? When
| the question comes before Congress of giving the
Pension Office all the additional force asked for
| and so greatly needed, the soldier will nj once
discover his true friends Those who oppose this
additional force, upon whatever pretext, are
THE ENEMIES OF THE SOLDIERS
and their widows. 1t cannot be successfully on
posed on the pretcxt Of economy, for il will cost
| no more to employ thousand clerks five yenrs
than Ave hundred clerks ten years. 1t Is as broad
as Il is long, The pending claims should be ex-
speedily allowed. The additional force Is needed
| 10 push these examinations to a close. The pres
ent force is Inadequate That is the whole matter
| in nutshell. The asinine insinuaton that Colo.
mel Dudley wants this extra force of several hun
dred clerks for n political machine with which TO
| carry Indiana Is Just about foolish enough for a
| five hundred more clerks were given Colonel
| Dudley they would be appointed about pro rata
| from all of our forty States of the Union They
would be hard At work here in the close and
tainly, they would be grand acquisition to In
diana's Republican "machinel" Perhaps ten or
fifteen of them would be from the great State Of
Indiann--about one to each congressional district
Colonel Dndleys unsulled record as a citizen and
patriot soldier Is ndamant against such libels as
this in the Sentinel