The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-22
day soldier, ana 70 huother on account
1oS his second enlistment for longer

Gay S0itflcE, dIfl kD MtICttttf uti NtSUuHt
o. his second enlistment for longer
q The total. strength OF the union,
armies at each 81 the yarions stages
.of the war is ALSO known. II reached
the highest point in the spring OF 1868,
just before disbandrnant when there
were nominally more than 1000, o0d
men ina the Service. The effective
strength OF the armies, however, was
.nesrlys million lessrA
1T is simply ridiculous for the pen
sion commissioner TO put forward
such figures as those which he uses "a
cover and excuse still further political
enterprises in the way Of governmental
bounty. ..-...l..
What is definitely. and exactly
known, on the authority Of Gen.
Raum himself, is that now, twenty
six years after the close. Of the war,
and thirty years after It's beginning, the
bureau Is granting pension claims at
the5rate 900 3 syearzaas many
new pensioners in q single year as there
were deathsIin the union armies from
wounds y battle and all other causes
during the entire war. IN x. Sun.
3ia53ss
The aScREWS" ON.
The Role Assumed by Harrison in Hi
Struggle for REORGANIZATION.
When Secretary Of the Treasury Eos.
ter forced vacancy in the New York
collectorship to give Mr.. Harrison q
chance for amnesty from Boss Platt,
the republican farce began to develop
its motif, as the theatrical critics say.
In his struggle for denomination Mr..
Harrison is playing what he thinks a
leading but the republican bosses
are having great sport with him. He
was high and mighty enough with them
after his FIRST accession to power. He
kept hts dignity III Indiana kid gloves
in dealing with them. The capital !
his self-sufficiency was very large in.
decd Now they are talking the
starch ont" of him. One by one they
are bringing him 10 terms. The en-
thusiastic Blaine resolutions adopted
in republican meetings in Pennsyl-
vania and elsewhere are not nearly as
spontaneous as they seem. 1t is true
that among republicans Blaine is re-
garded as a very great man and Har~
rison as avery small one. butthe Blaine
boom" is being, worked to bring Mr.
Harrison to realizing sense Of the
fact that self -safficiency and kid
gloved arrogahee,a however natural in
b man of the intellectual stature Of
five feet two, are out of place in a
person who 10 hastling fora renemi-
nation. Mr.. Harrison may know
well enough that he has such q
..'cinch' on Mr.. Blaine. that the latter
cannot possibly go into the the conven.
ton as candidate against him. But,
sharpened as his political faculties are
by his own ambitious. he cannot fail to
realize that it will be all over with his
chances If the opposition to him holds
together on Blaine long enough to
deliver its strength to some other can.
didate. In organizing q Harrison ma
chine Of office-holders to force his re-
nomination, he has lost sight Of the in
terests of powerful republicans who
are now preparing TO teach him that
there are other interests in politics to
serve besides his own. They are Civ
ing him a lesson in reciprocity" Al
though he is the grandson of one Har.
risen and the great-grandson of an
other, they are getting ready to show
him that his ss.ss
Family pride.
Must be denied, $50
And set aside. sgaMas
And mortifed. q. .f5
They are telling him as plaihiy as Il