The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-15
straw Bail Dudley's" Methods.

STRAW Bail Dudley's" Methods.
There are thousands OF old soldiers in In
diana, entitled to pensions under the
laws, who were unable to get them when
DUDLEY was running the pension bureau
as an annex to the republican machine.
Pensions went by favor in those days. 1t
was very difficult for democrats to get
them, no matter how strong a case they
made out. Pensions were granted in
hundreds and thousands of instances as
rewards for questionable services to the
republican party; they were given as in
ducements to needy democrats to abandon
their principles; and, in short, they were
allowed or withheld, to very large ex-
tent, upon the strength of political con-
siderations alone.
Since GROVER CLEVELAND became presi-
dent, and that grand veteran of the union
army, Gen. JOHN c. BLACK, became COM
missioner Of pensions, there has been a
radical change in the methods practiced
in that branch of the government. 1t has
been conducted in the interest of the true
soldiers-the men who went to the front
and did the fighting-and vast number
OF them who had been denied their rights
under the corrupt and disgraceful admin
istration of DUDLEY have been placed on
the pension roll-which GROVER CLEvE-
LAND has insisted shall be kept roll of
honor" These old soldiers had been
told that if the democrats came into
power the payment of pensions would
be stopped; that the confederate
soldiers would be pensioned, the rebel
debt assumed, ETC., etc. Their experience
under a democratic administration has
opened their ewes, and many of them who
have received from the democrats that
justice which the republicans had denied
them for years, propose to vote the demo
cratic ticket next November for the first
time in their lives.
The notorious and INSCRIPTIONS DUD-
ley, whom the truly good Ben HARRISON
has chosen as his personal representative
on the republican campaign committee, is
attempting TO counteract the effect OF this
by writing to pensioners who have been
placed on the rolls by the democrats that
they are entitled to more money than
they are receiving. He is using the
knowledge gained while at the head of
the pension bureau in the prosecution of
this dirty but entirely characteristic
scheme. Communications OF this char
acter are being sent to all the Indiana
soldiers who have been pensioned under
CLEVELAND, although the great majority
Of them had been unable to get penny
while Straw Bail DUDLEY was conducting
the pension bureau.
The following letter, from a veteran
soldier at Attica, shows just how this
game is being worked by DUDLEY:
To THE EDIToR-Sir: / tried for fifteen
years to get pension but could never get my
claim allowed. While DUDLEY was at the head
Of the pension bureau he rejected my papers
seven times. When BLACK got at the head Of
the bureau / applied and now draw S24 a
month. Now DUDLEY is 2 lawyer (?)at Wash
ington. He whites me that am entitled to S31
a month Why did he reject my papers when he
had the power TO grant me pension? Now he
knows have got pension and he thinks by
writing to me that he can bride me to vote the
free-vhisEy ticket
Take warning, all you soldiers that have got
your pensions under CLEvELAND's admins
tration, and vote for the man that is friend of
the soldiers, but is down on those that demand
pensions but have no right to them.
Yours, for CLEVELAND,
GEORGE ]. Wolf.
Attica, Ind, Aug. Z.
We warn the old soldiers of Indiana to
be on their guard against this rascally at
tempt to mislead them. Every veteran
who was denied his rights by DUDLEY,
and who has received them from BLACK,
will understand that when the former
tells them they are entitled to more money
than they are receiving, he is lying to
them for the purpose of influencing their
votes II they are entitled to more than
they are now getting, they can safely de-
pend upon the administration which
placed them upon the pension rolls to
give it to them, while they have nothing
TO hope for from such fellows as DUDLEY,
who denied them their rights for so many
long years.
Every democratic paper in Indiana and
in the country should cooperate in the
exposure of this villainous scheme of
Straw Bail DUDLEY to deceive pensioners.
Down with monopoly taxes
MR. BLAINE is home at last, and the