The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-12-16
DIR. T. s. DABNEYS DENIAL
TWO LETTERS ON THE RECENT PEN
SION OFFICE APPOINTMENT.

The New Medical Examiner Claims That
He Never Was in ANY War, Never Was
at Andersonville Prison and Never Did
Guard Duty Anywhere.
WASHINGTON, Dec 15.-Medical Exam
iner Dabney, of the pension office, contem-
plates suit for libel against certain news
papers who persist in libeling him as muir
derer and traitor Action is liable at any
day. The annexed correspondence on the
subject would seem to dispose Of Dabney's
maligners:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
"UNITED STATES PENSION OFFICE,
"WAsHINGToN, Dec emher IL, 1886
ITO Goodspeed Post, No. 295, g. A. r.. Depart
ment of Kansas:
al am in rece ipt of your resolution of De-
cember 4, which reached me yesterday, and
of numerous resolutions, letters, ETC., from
various parts of the United States, relative
to the appointment as member of the board
If examining surgeons in this Office Of DIR. T.
S. Dabney, of the city of New Orleans, La.
Your resolution is as follows:
""That we beg leave to enter this our most
earnest protest against the appointment Of
one DR.. Dabney, Confederate, of Anderson
vile prison fame to a position on the board
of the medical division in the United States
pension office; that we regard the appoint
ment as an insult to every loyal man and eX"
solder of the Union army, and more than an
insult and outrage to the remnant of the
living survivors to that earthly hell, and
especially to the dead; that, as post COM
prising representatives of ex-soldiers (Union)
and prisoners of war, Democratic and Re-
publican parties, request that the appoint
meut Of said DIR. Dabney be revoked at once;
that copy of these resolutions be sent to his
excellency the president of the United States,
and the Hon. John G. Black, commissioner
of pensions Washington, D. c.
"Dr. Dabney was appointed to the office he
now holds in this bureau after examination
and certifcation by the United States civil
service commission more than thirteen
months ago upon my selection He then was
and now is citizen Of the United States
and on equal footing with every other citizen
There We're no preferred applicants for the
place to which he was appointed. He has
since discharged all the duties Of his office in
an able and efficient manner as shown by
the reports to me of his superior officer, the
medical referee He has shown himself ca
pable and honest. He Is in harmony with his
lawful superiors in their views of duty and
government. These things fill alike the re-
quirements of sound government, of public
policy and Of existing law. DR.. Dabney may
remain in public office, so far as l am con-
cerned, while these conditions exist
"The foregoing statement concludes the en-
tire law of the case; but that you may not
mlSapPreD'ho inc "lsuoih oI nus spp0in1-
ment' ana 'yOu may Kno" VINO ana "hat
tnis young man IS ana mas Oeen' ana 1nabyou
may Kllo" tnaD tue rec,Gals OIL your reSoiu-
Ciohs are hoS CIue' ana Cna0 your your uehuLcia-
tions Is leVelea al one VINO IN looo was Out a
chllu, ana VINO never Sa" Une place you men
Gioh lAhuersohViiiel' appehu certain papers
ior your cohs'ueraOlon, ana ca your aI6eh-
tlon. IN conclusion 10 Ins luoC Cna1 V4s Union
soiuler mas suILereu no narul aC Dr' Lapneys
nahu7 Ill HIS yeur Ut IloIe ol ser vice, as Ihe