Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-26
RAUM MUST GO.
But Not Until lie is Investi'
gated.
ALLEGATIONS OF A GREAT SCAN.
Hf DAL. 7
Harrison's Remarkable Pension Com
missioner.


inglv bad luck In his management Of
the Pension Office. BY his appoint
ment and removal Of Corporal Tanner
he allenated host of old soldiers who
had voted for HMM 1885,. He appoint
ed General Green B. Raum In Tanners
place, and now he Is threatened with
the biggest scandal that has disgraced
his administration.
We speak whereof we know when we
say that while Raum was Commis-
sioner of internal revenue more than
$4,000 dollars of money was paid by
distillers in Chicago and elsewhere to
officers of the government in WASH
ington.. We expressly refrain at this
time from asserting that this money
was received by Raum. What we do
say is that Raum knew who paid the
money, what it was paid for and who
got 1t.
We assert that Green B. Raum is
thoroughly familiar with all the meth
DDS by which public offices are used
for the private enrichment of men who
hold them. He lived in an atmosphere
ofcorruption while in the treasury d -
partment. Is it any wonder that the
same atmospher now prevades the pen-
sion Bureau?
Green B. Raum was appointed COM
m'ssioner of internal revenue by Cen
O. ! Grant aud was continued in office
by that great North American hy-
poe 'te and humbug, Ruthford B.
Hayes. ID E B a.
HAYES found as soon as he got into
the White House that the whisky
2uds which had been partially ex-
posed during the last year of Grants
administration were still going on and
that some of his friends in Cincinnati
and elsewhere would have to go to Il e
penitentiary if the prosecutions were
followed up. He took care that they
were not followed up. ak =
Ali the facts In regard to these things
were laid before him by that honest
man, John d. Henderson, of st. Louis
Hayes froze Henderson out of the
White House and they have never
spoken since. a.
Hayes wanted a commissioner who
would not hurt the thieves who had
rs ped exposure and he found him in
CIR n B. Raum, Of Illinois. But it cost
the robbes something to enjoy the
j iendly protection Of the Hayes ad-
U nistration. .v. mi F.g. .la
There are some very striking indica-
tions that Green B. Raum prepares to
"work" the office of commissioner of
pensions for all it is worth, and it can
be made very lucrative office to man
who "knOws the ropes"
Does Raum know the ropes? We rath-
er think he does.
There was once an attempt at an in
'tiGation of the internal revenue busi-
ness by committee of the House of
Il oresentatives. The men who had
prid the money to the men in the
t-easury department were summoned
as witnesses. But the investigation was
stided withouta word of testimony be-
ing taken. Green B. Raum could tell
very interesting story on that subject,
we fancy.
While Raum was commissioner of
internal revenue he invested a great
DE- of money in minc', quarries and
other speculative enterprises and lost
goodly fortune. The Scand'a mine of
Colorado was one of these enterprises. |
1t is not too late for a committee of |
Congress 80 to inquire into all thcce |
mat 's. But no Republican commit
tee will ever do it, and long before the
Democrats regain control of the House
Of R2pr {sntativcs Raum will be- gone.
He cannot stay 10 the pension Of
fee.
His refrigerator business, bis private
pension agency, his sons pension busi-
ness, his close relation with favored
pension agents, are all becoming
known. ". .
He is trying to make money while the
sun shines. But Harrison and Noble
suspect his honesty and are wondering
who the next commissioner of pensions
will be.
The appointment of Raum was one
OF the most curious things that has
happened since March 4, 1889. It
shows what strength the old crowd
of Grant-Hayes politicians still pos
sess.
The wonder is that Star Route Brady
has not received some sort of an office
from Harrison.
Brady had the bad taste to be bold
and brutal, and to be found out. Raum
was sly and furtive, and escaped inves-
legation. But he knows how "busi.
ness' Is done, and he has been doing
it with all his might for some months
past. tz IS "a ee
How much he has made of course
only he and his inmates know. The
Republican members should pass
NJ. Coopers's resolution and find
out. 1854 WIS
THE .REFRIGERATOR BUSINESS.
Some time in March last the Nation
al Democrat .rned that the Claim
Agents. commissioner of pensions had
the controlling interest in stock COM
pany known as the Universal Refriger-
ating Comany, that stock was being
sold, that Raum was the president of
.he company, and that they claimed to |
possess patented process to refrigerate
without ice.
Since then careful Investigations have
been made by representatives Of this
paper, and the fraud has been exposed
from week to week in these columns.
The office of the company was the same
as that of "My Son John" No. Ills F
street northwest, while on Eleventh
street sample refrigerator was kept
running In full blast in order to show
subscribers to the stock how the patent
ed process worked. 's} n
This refrigerator was kept colder than
ice could make it with dry atmos-
phere, without any of the leakage,
drainage, moisture or dirt, usual to the
ordinary refrigerator, and to those to
whom It was expected to sell stock, it
was told that the entire expense of
keeping II in this splendid condition