The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-09-20
Exit Tanner.

lnd anapoils sentinel.
Corporal Tanner made speeches for b.
Harrison and protection to home indus-
try in this and several other states last
year. He usually began his speeches
about this way: "Fellow citizens
have lately been in Minnesota. 1t has a
cool climate and found that great
majority Of the people were republicans
In Indiana the climate Is warmer, and
there are not SO many republicans. 1t Is
= curious fact that republication -four
shes In cool climates and Democracy in
warm ones. Tennessee has warmer
climate than Indiana and il has more
democrats. Texas is warmer than Ten
uessee aud is overw whelmingly demo-
cratic. He'll is still hotter than Texas
and they are all democrats there
This profane ribaldry was usually
greeted with 'grcat applause" Tanners
regular exorlinm was repeatedly printed
in the new wspapers, was generally COM
could hardly have failed to hear OF II. n
showed that Tanner was foul-mouthed
biackguard. unfit TO associate with gen
tlemen, and grossly improper person
70 be inirusted with any Office OF respoD-
sibility or power. Nevertheless, one Of
the first things Il. Harrison did after he
became president was to make him CON-
missioner Of pensions, although this is
one of the most important offices under
the goyernment-a good deal more so
than some Of the cabinet Offices.
The fellow has made disgraceful rec.
ord. lie has brought scandal and re-
Iproach upon the administration. Gross
favoritism, shameful exiravagance and
nasrant corruption have characterized
his management Of pension atIsirs. lie
has shown Al utter disregard OF the pro-
lprieiie- and the decencies Of his position
an grotesque inability to comprehend
the Obligations it imposes upon its in
lcumbent.
Tanner has finally gone. His reeigna-
lion WAS sent 10 the president yesterday
aud promptly accepted. Tanner says
that he resigned because ''the differences
which exist between the secretary Of the
interior and myself AZ 70 The policy to BE-
pursued in the administration Of The
pension bureau have reached q stage
J, which threatens TO embarrass you to a.
'|ex,ent which feel you should not b
: -lcslled upon to suffer-" The president
In his reply, says be does "not think |
y Unnecessary to discnss, in this correspond !
! -lence, the csuses which have led to III
-lpresent attitude of affairs IN the pension
: -office." Tanner, he says, has been kind
ely and fully advised OF his views upo
. most Of these matters. The presiden
adds that 1t gives him pleasure to o.
ylthat so far rs he Is advised Tanner's pei
y|sonsI honesty has not been called 1
alquestior, and to renew the expression &
: Ihis personal good will.
eI Tanners resignation was not, 9
). course, voluntary. He resigned becaus
,-Iit wss the only alternative TO dismissa
.tIIIis retirement, under the circumstances
e Idoes not, in the slightest degree, reliev
4 the administration Of the disgrace Of hi
. glappoiuiment. which was made with "a
a utter incapacity. II does not mitigat,
} lin the least, the scandal Of the revoliin
n frauds, or Of the open and shameless
L tIprostitntion Of the machinery Of the per
! sion bureau to the service Of Dudley
III Lemon and other disrepufaLle pensio
! brokers. Il. Harrison appointed Tan
ner with his ewes wide open he retaine
him in Office long after his reckless an
criminal methods Of administration hs
q becn exposed to the country; and h
:. finally dismissed him for that's wha
= the enforced resignation amounts to-
J only when popular Indignation At hi
!. conduct hsd reached such . pitch tha
! his furthur retention was simply impos
! sible. The stigma Of Tannerism vii
!. cling TO the administration until th
end. although Tanner himself has bee
, sacrificed.