Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24

The absurd invention that the United
States Pension Bureau has been surrcpti-
tiously used to make Republican votes in
Ohio and Indiana is fairly exploded by
the official couutcrstatcmcnt of the Act
ing Commissioner of Pensions. 1t has
been rehearscd, with glaring eyes and up
lifted hands. by Mir Schurz in his speech
cS. and howlcd to the skies by the Dem
Ocratic and Independent papers yet it is
intrinsiCally ridiculOuSs The old soldiers
need no promises from the pension depart
ment to secure their votes for the Repub-
lican ticket. They know who has been ON
their side in the matter of granting pen
sions; and in no State has there been any
danger that their votes would be given to
the man who, though in the prime of life
during the war, never shOuderCd Il mus
ket or said a word or lifted Il finger for
the cause of the Union or to the man
who denounced them us LinColn'S hire
lingS," and stabbed them in the back
while they We're facing rebellion or to
the party of Southern brigadicrs. But
the fact that Commissioner Dudley
had resigned his Office and was taking
active part in the political canvass was
been industriously circulated by the men
and journals who are hard up for reasons
to explain the obvious fact that the gen
craI canvass is going against them
They will continue to circulate it. The
disproof of the charge will make no differ
encc. They will apply to that or
to the contradictions of various other
Slandcrous inventions ON their side, the
simple method in such constant use by
them, of declaring it to he false They
will say that Acting Commissioner Clark
lies that the figures which support his
statement are dOCtOrcd that the men who
would do the things alleged would OF
course lie to cover it and that the Sccrc
tary of the Interior and the President of
the United States, to whom the request for
information was made by Mr.. Eevcrctt =.
Wheeler, are promulgatng falsehood, in
permitting the statement from the pen
sion bureau To be made public.
/ This method is ii very easy way to get
along without facts or arguments The
logic of it is simple. Mr., Blaine is, Il
priOr, IA thief and IL liar. Every state
ment and circumstance, adduced by him
self or his friends in his favor, is lie.
The people who support HIM are liars on
fools, The only honest chaste and pure
men, worthy statesmen, truthful orators
and true rcfOrmcTs, are Grover Cleveland
cNcn-mulc-and-M orcy letter Barnum. anc
George William Curtis, Boss Mclaughlin
Carl SchurZ, S9JJ Thompson, Boss Me
Lean, and their coadiuturS of the Demo
cratic and Dcmocrtic-anncX press. with
these, rests all knowledge aud insight. and
it will die with them Their assertions
are absolute truth-thc goal of mcuphy-
clans and philosophers. Everybody who
docs NOT accept them "a, such is originally
and essentially corrupt, or "dcmorulilcd'
by support of Blaine. Consistency I,
nothing. Previous good character an,
standing ANA service are nothing. patm
otism is nothing. Protection is a fraud
\ change is everything, Hulrah for tn,
cause of moral reform, honest forgery
and truthful SANDER! Perhaps this meth
cd is going to win. Wait "A couple of week,
or so, and see