Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-28
Democratic Campaign Slander Book.


This campaign book issued by the Demo
wonderfully constructed assimilation Of
blindness and Misrepresentation So many
of its statements prove on inspection to be false
that no reliance can be placed on ANYTHING
found in it, In issuing this book the Demo
cratic committee has endeavored 10 Hood the
country with a mass of misleading material
to break the force, if possible, OF the crush
ing effect Of the truth regarding the present
Democratic administration The chapter on
the pension department is an attempt to ex-
cuse Pension Commissioner Black for his
slanderous utterances against his predecessor,
Gen. Dudley.
These ISLANDERS were promulgated in Blacks
first report, and when called on by the senate
to substantiate his charges that Gen. Dudley
had granted pensions On political grounds, he
failed ignobly, and only succeeded in proving
his own ignorance of the work of the depart.
ment and in proving the falsty of his own
charges against Gen. Dudley. When asked
for specifications he was unable TO give them,
but after weeks of ransacking produced a
list of twenty-seven cases out OF the two hun
dred thousand adjudicated by Gen. Dudley,
snd claimed that these twenty-seven had
been granted for political reasons though he
confessed that he knew nothing of these
cases when he first uttered his ISLANDERS in his
official report The investigation of these
twenty-Seven cases by the senate committee
disclosed the fact that number of them
were Democrats in one of the cases Gen
Black asked TO be allowed to Withdraw the
papers, and admitted that he had found
that the pensioner was Democrat
In most, if not all OF these twenty-sev
cases, he finally had to admit that the
proof seemed sufficient for the granting of a
pension, and he would have baen obliged TO
treat them Just as Gen. Dudley had After
this inglorious breaking down and virtual
confession of having been malicious sian
derer, one would naturally conclude that
Pension Commissioner Blacks boomerang
would be hidden away and no more heard
from his side of the fence. But this chapter
reterates Gen. Blacks original ISLANDERS
with calm confidence in the peoples ignor-
ance of current events, and gives a large
number of affidavits which, it claims, const-
tute the proof of the charges, and would not
be considered by the senate committee.
These affidavits are ex-parte statements OF
Blacks examiners and could not be accepted
been called before the committee to testify
but for the fact that Commissioner Black
refused to give the committee the names and
addresses of those affidavit makers that they
might be examined. This naturally led to
the impression that the affidavits we're
cooked up for the occasion and that Black
did not dare to have these examiners appear
before the committee to be interrogated in
regard to the part they had played in Blacks
special act of slander manufacturing
The chapters on administrative Mendac-
ity" and "Absenteeism" do not scare the
present National administration for its
faults in both these lines as they would were
this book to be labeled The Truthtellern ~
The other chapters of the book contain the
usual quota of Democratic campaign false
hoods and prevarications and are not worthy
of the amount of attention some of the news
papers are giving them.