The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-07-24
WHAT M,oILLIouppY SAYS
or DR.. BIand's visit 90 the pea
Cloud Agency.


Cloud Agency.
The Commissioner Of Indian Afaira has
received an official report from Agent Nc
Gillicuddy at the Pine Ridge, Dakota, Ia
dian Agency, giving the reason why be re-
moved DIR. +. A. Bland, Of this city, from
that agency.
DR.. Bland Is tho editor Of publication
issued here, and devoted to Indian affairs.
He is well known.
Agent McGillicuddy says that DE-. Hand
appeared at the agency about III o'clock on
the 29th Of Juno last, aud len attended by
an escort of Indian police at about 100 p.
m. the same day.
He Did Not Leave willingly.
For days before Bland arrived there had
been uneasiness among the indians. Tho
Red Cloud faction Of the Indians, which IL
opposed to tho policy Of the Government In
dealing with them, began TO talk Of com.
missioner from the Great Father NJ Wash
ington, who was coming 10 mako all things
right. Bland was regarded by the Indians
as having powers plonipotentiary and ex-
traordinary in fixing things at the Pine
Ridge Agency. The nearer DR.. Bland APP
preached tho agency the bigger was the talk
about what he was
Going 10 no Among the Dissatisfied
Indians.
Red Cloud and about forty Of them went
out to meet him. The Indians who support
the Governments system became very un.
easy. At last the great commissioner
came In escorted by Red Cloud and his fol.
lowers. He was seated In tho wagon OF
Todd Randall, white man living on tho
reservation. Instead of reporting at once
TO the agency as Is required Of all stran-
gers, DR.. Bland went to mess-house.
Agent McGiIlicuddy sent for Him.
DIR. Bland was greeted with cries from the
Indians Of, Heres the Great Fathers COM
missioner" "Now we will have a new
agent" At o'clock DIR. Bland appeared
ut tho agency. He showed Mr.. McGilli-
cuddy letter from the Secretary of tho In
terror instructing officers and agents Of the
Department to allow him every oppor-
tunity to visit his friends among the In
dams, but also advising them that
He Held No Official Position In the
Department
and was not authorized to represent it in
any way, nor to interfere in tho affairs Of
the agency. Mr.. McGillicuddy told him
that his presence ct the agency was dis
tufbing factor and that he must leave. He
| pointed out what had been tho result Of
the course that DIR. Bland had pursued.
| The latter refused to leave voluntarily,
L
| the escort of Thunder Bear and six privates
| Of the Indian police, and accompanied also
by Red Cloud,
Bland Was Taken 20 Nebraska.
Mr.. McGillicuddy says that he supposes
| DR.. Bland will content himself with suing
him for $4,000 damages and publishing him
in the newspapers. Bland in the fremont
House in the city Of Washington told Red
Cloud, says Mr.. McGillicuddy, winter be-
fore last, that that chief had sufficient
provocation for killing him McGillicuddy).
Bland is opposed to the policy of the Gov.
eminent and an adherent of the old tribal
system. He is interested in lands with
Todd Randall. McGillicuddy recommends
that
Randall be Removed From the Res.
ervatiOn Also.
He also says:
This man Bland, ultra and visionary in his
ideas, is one OF class OF individuals OF the
Guiteau stripe, men in whom It Is dif11cult to
l. determine where eccentricity leaves on and
i einsanity begins-men who are dangerous In
civilized communities, and doubly 30 In the
Indian country, and particularly 90 as coming
from Washington, as Washington is known as
| the Great Fathers Home, and the Indians ma
turally regard all persons coming from theie