Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-08-26
WASHINGTON LETTER +.
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mi.tee has only succeeded il
locating five OF the governors
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Blair, Of
| Michigan; &irkwood, of Iowa
| Fletcher, of Missouri, and
Sprague, OF Rhode Island but il
expects. with the assistance OF eth,
srs, to tind more OF them. Ii any
reader Of this paragraph knows
the address OF any ex-governor
who held Office during ,he period
of the wax, IN addition to thoot
mentioned above, lie will confer {
favor On the committee by sending
It at once to the chairman OF the
q. 4. L. encampment committee
Washington, d, {.
Subscription DO ls have beer
opened here for the fund for the
erection of monument to The
memory Of The late Senate,
Plumb. No man ever occupied 6
Iseat in either the Senate or the
House whose work was more de-
servlng of being remembered, and
no man ever ia Congress was
readier than Preston B. Plumb tc
take up the fight of the under
idog. He already has an enduring
monument in the hearts of his
countrymen whom be served SO
well, but that is no reason why
another monument. visible to all
the world, shall not be erected TO
his memory.
Democrats have been fond OF
assailing Commissioner Raum's
management. of the pension bu-
lreau, but none of them have dared
to go into details, although the re-
cords Of the department are as
open to the inspection of Demo-
Gratis as they are 70 Republicans.
The figures show that while the
business of the bureau has about
| doubled ir all its divisions since
| the present administration came
into power, the total cost for clerk
hire and other expenses have been
but little more than they were IN
der the Cleveland administration,
while the average cost to the Gov
ernment for each pension certii-
cate issued is less than one-halt
Iof what it was under Cleveland.
70 be exact, the average cost OF
|each certificate issued under
Cleveland was S24 "a against Sill,
| 10 under the present administers
lion. The average cost Of disburs,
ing money is also less under Com,
missioner Raum than under Black
Facts like these outweigh ell the
lies ever uttered, and 1t was be.
cause he knew OF them that Secre
.ary Noble said he regarded Gen
Raum's administration of the
Pension Bureau as most efficient
J an opinion which the President ii
also known to hold.
4 Representative Holman's at
tempt to explain and apologiz'
for the course of the Democrat
majority in the House in maxim!
I, appropriations during the las
session came near being the destl
of the old gentleman, who ha
been confined to his bed. eve
} since his most remarkable state
ment wss printed. No wonde,
the task he undertook wss ss fa
as explanation is concerned ali i'm
possible one, even for u youpi
: man, and Mr.. Holman has passe,
the term OF years allotted to mar
G The old gentleman is improving
and he hopes to be able to G
home this week.
: The President became tired O
y Canada's game of playing fast ant
]. loose with the canal tolls question
and wired Secretary Foster t.
j issue the retaliation proclamation
D which was prepared before tn
: President left Washington. Thl
5 will probably bring the Cansdial
Government to its senses III shor
order.
: Representative Bynum, of In
J, diana, does not regard the demo
q cratic outlook as enthusissticall,
as other prominent democrat
pretend to do. He has just re
turned from two weeks visit t,
i New York, and this is the way b
o talks about it: at would be IN
possible for any one not famiIis
with New York politics 10 judg
q OF the situation there, whether b
g remained there two weeks or tw
months. [ don't pretend to pre-
Dict. New York democrats sa
!, things are all right. / do not know
1 Mr.. Bynum is in the same doubt
r ful state of mino about his ow,
? State, Of which he says, 81 thin,
9 Cleveland viii carry the State.
must be remembered, however
= mark the "however") that th
Victory in Indiana is usually wo
Q during the last two weeks of th
s campaign. The difference be
y tween Mr.. Bynum and the aver
. age democrat who talks for publ
{ cation is in this case that he hs
:. spoken according to his homes
n judgment, while they talk as the
lyish.