Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-20
4 HOWL FOR TANNER.

Before it was known that Gen. Ben
iamin Harrison had politely commune
Gated to Corp. Tanner the consuming
desire for a change i'll the pension
bureau, Republican paper away up in
Massachusetts wrote thus of the cru
mors'' of Tanner removal:
Not at all. On the contrary, Tanner has
proven an excellent fit. If any class of men
are better entitled to liberal treatment than the
soldiers and sailors of the late war. trot them
out. They certainly cannot be found among
the stay homes who are now bowling about
the useless expenditure of money for pensions.
Tame IS simply carrg5ng out the pledges
made 6y the dominant party prior to the eEc c.
ton and performing his a0ork well. Hurrah for
Tanner!
Certainly, "Tanner simply carried
out the pledges made by the Republic
can party, but the corporal did not
fully realize the hypocrisy of his own
party and could not comprehend that
he was expected to ''reduce the sur
plus'' and keep his mouth shut. He
did what he was appointed to do, and
then, like Blind Tom, he applauded
himself and all the taxpayers heard.
Then it was that Gen. Benjamin Harri-
son invited the corporal to go,
and to stand not on the order
of going, but to 'git!" When
this information penetrated the sane
tums of the old Bay State, the editor
who declared that ''Tanner was simply
carrying out the pledges of his party, -
and was safe, thus wrote of a cowardly
act:
At last weakly yielding to the demands of the
Democratic and Mugwump press, President Har-
rison has decid ed that Pension Commissioner
Tanner must resign or be removed. TWAS rep
resented to the crippled veteran yesterday by
Senator Hiso6ck of New York, that his liberal
Interpretation of the pension laws would inevita-
bly, bring scandal upon the interior department,
for which reason, peaceably if it could, but
fQTciEiy if force must be used, he would be COM
PEELED to vacate the Office.
This action on the part of President Harrison,
we respectfully submit, is the weakest kind of
trucking to a class of men who, by every means
within their power, sought to bring about his
defeat in the last election. It win do neither
him nor the party any good, and we are very
much mistaken if the commissioner does not
show that his removals. the outcome OF con-
spiracy Matched by Assistant Secretary Bussey
and others. tits to be hoped that Tanner VIII
not submit to this arbitrary action; that he viii
demand proof of the Encouragement charged
against him, and by so doing confound the men
who have been, ever since his, appointment
to office. scheming for his downfall. Tanner
was brave soldier, and he is an honest man.
If his place be made vacant, New York viii go
Democratic this fall, and the president would
only have himself to blame for the consequent
loss of power. Tanner being removed, why
would it not be in order to appoint to the place
Brig-Gen. Thomas S. Rosser, who made such
rampant, fre-eating speech recently, in which
he declared that one Southern soldier could whip
three Yankees. By all means, since crippled
Union veteran is not good enough for the place,
let US have rebel brigadier, to the end that the
If this be the outcome of Gen. Beuja-
min Harrison s administration in the
green, what will it be in the sere and
yellow leaf of 1892? He'll in the South,
Tanner rerating pensions and Bussey
shoveling out the taxes of the people to
dishonorably discharged soldiers-this is
Republican rule under Gen. Benjamin
Harrison.