Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-06-09
THE SOLDIER HATERS.
RENEWED EVIDENCES OF BIT,
TER ANIMOSlTY.
Tho Old Rulings Governing the Appoint
ment Of Pension Boards Have Been
side-Trncked and NOne but Democrats =
Are Now In 1t.
Democrntic peu.,op Board..

Democratic Pension boards.
A Washington special in the Louis
vile Courier-.Iournal thus gives fur
ther evidence that President Cleve-
land Is determined to carry out the
policy of reOrganizing all the Pen
sion Examining Boards and making
;heir membership wholly Democratic:
There is at least one man ia offiee here
kho believes that Democrats alone should
get the piumS Judge Lochren. Cominis-
noner OF Pensions. has side tracked III.
I'D rulings governing the appointments OF
medical boards Instead OF putting two
Democrats and one Republican on board
- heretofore. he will low appoint three
soya al sons OF the Democracy. He thinks
his will strike at the very root OF the pen-
'ion evil He Is cognilant OF the fact that
his new department will cause a stir. but
he viii carry out his policy With iii mness
This one thing the Democrats have COM
United themselves to do" he Is quoted as
laying, "io sift AS far as possible ths rub
bish which has been drifting into this pan-
lion cesspo t. The part has committed
tell to reform IN this matter. and there
Is no better way to make u start than by
having Democrats on these boards The
President will probably support this plan
of reform. 1t Is known that secretary
SHAtn "dHJs u HOUs6-CIeUnl ing III the ems
,ion department., and 1t is In followin cut
lhis line Of thought, IL Is believed. that
Judge Lochren has taken his present stand.
II is generally believed that Judge Loch-
zen tooe this step after consult lon with
president Cleveland and Secretary Smith
Hence there Is more than ordinary sig
nifcance In the announcement
President Cleveland has never for
given the Union veterans for defeat
Ing his reelection in 1888, and they
will never forgive themselves for re-
slecting him in 1892. Heretofore the
Pension Examing Boards shave con-
sisted OF two Republicans and one
Democrat, or vice versa, but here
after the members will all be Demo
Gratis" So says the Courier.Journal
special, and it truly adds: "There is
more than ordinary significance in
the announcement"-to the Union
veterans who prevented the Demo
Gratis from destroying the Nation
during the long and bloody struggle
between loyalty and treason in
1870. Judge Lochren was Union
soldier OF good record, but he is now
merely the tool OF conscript who
permitted his own substitute to die
m a poor-house, and is now deter
mined to make the poor-houses the
asst habitations Of as many disabled
Union veterans as he can force with
Ia their walls.
The New York Press and the Des
Moines Register are united in the
statement that lit is an undoubted
fact that the administration pro-
poses to conduct merciless campaign
against the men that saved the ma
ti0n. The Democratic party was the
malignant foe OF the Union soldiers
In the years when half the Democracy
was employed in shooting them do xn
On the battlefield, while a large ma
jority Of the other half was talking
treason in the rear OF the loyal
armies. 1t has been their foe during
all the years OF Republican govern
ment at Washington, but it has been
powerless until now to carry it's
hatred into effective action. Dur
ing Mr.. Cleveland's former term
Republican Senate constituted
4 bulwark for the veterans which the
Bourbons could not storm. The
Democratic executive repeatedly
manifested his enmity and his con-
Tempt toward them in his sneering
pension vetoes; but the Democracy
was able to do the veterans compare
lively little harm. Now, from the
only President elected since the war
who never bore arms in the nations
service, down, the Federal Govern
lent Is Democratic. The warfare on
the veterans Is to begin in deadly
earnest. The Republican party, the
champion and the friend
OF the Union soldier, takes up the
gage OF battle in his behalf. No
genuine Republican desires to see
sing,e pension dishonesty drawn
from the National Treasury; but the
party OF Grant and Hayes, OF Gar
6eld and Harrison will resist by
every means in its power the pur-
pose Of the Democracy to rob the
veterans and the families OF veterans
II the benefits to which they are
Justly entitled by the laws Of
grateful nation.