Milford chronicle., 1893-09-01

uient pensioner out Of the 1000 enumerated
for Delaware. Not one has been pointed at
bv the most virulent Of the Democratic press
as a fraud The act Of June, 500, was passed
10 cuver the cases of ali dependent veterans,
in order to keen out of the poorhouse the
men who had defended the Union With their
lives II was intended TO cover all those
cases of men who had suffered through
wounds or exposure or by Imprisonment or
BY famine or by diseases, bat who had been
unable to prove their claims previously for
want of witnesses. Under the administia-
ton Of President Harrison, when veteran
said that he could not prove his claim, he
was furnished with copy Of the roster of
his company and their present addresses:
and then, by correspondence here aud there
throughout the country, men were found
who had been associates Of the applicant
Even then many men failed 10 find the re
quifed number Of witnesses, so ruthless had
besn the TavaPes Of war. time and of disease
Under the direction Of President Cleveland,
Hoke Smith has stopped that siiEple but
just and generous system, and, instead, his
claimant is furnished only with the ad-
dresses of such men as he can remember
having served with him. But the act Of 1890
made i, possible for all such men, if they
suffered actual disabilities, to get a pension
undsr the dependent clause, Such WAS the
case Of Charles NostTaHd, who was suspend
ed from the roll last week, and Is COM
pelied, If he lives that long, to prove again
his right to his pension. His suspension is
indeed great hardship He was a capital
soldier He was physically ruined by ex-
posure in the army, but he could not prove
his claim. So the act ofJuue, 1890 came
along, and enabled him to get that which he
in Justice ought to have had ten years before.
He was helpless, absolutely dependent for
years before 500
Of course a mau who was not iucapacitated
from doing full days work. or who was
making a handsome living, or was making
money through business, was not intended TO
be covered by this act P. Neary. for exam
pie, who is getting as large a pension as
poor Nostrand got,is not proper sugject for
the charity of the act Of 1890, and the state
ment concerning him in these columns last
Sunday created a great deal of talk crit.
icism The action Of the Pension Bureau iu
granting pensions to such cases as that of
Neary has brought the pension system into
disrepute. Commissioner Loehren will not
add to the credit of the bureau by suspend
ing helpless men like Nostr4nd and contin
uiug rich aud robust men like NeaTy.
Judge LochTen is a Democrat. He has Just
decided that the medical boards OF pension
examiners must be solidly Democratic. Il
has been the policy hitherto to give the mi
norty party representative in the board.
For instarce, Dr. Ogle, DeLi ocrat IS on the
Wilmington boasd; DR.. Bishop on the Dover
board, and DR.. Ellegood on the Georgetown
board. Iustinctively a Democrat will grasp
all the Offices in sight aud then sit down on
his hind legs and howl because there are no
more Offices 70 snatch.
Senator Voorhees, is another sample Demo-
crat. He INTRODUCES bill last Tuesday for
the repeal of the Silver Purchase act aud
then spoke for two hours in laudation Of sill
yer and .denouncing gold. He likewise has
introduced bill TO extend the eiTcuistfd6- ut7
National banks by one tenth, but IN his speech
he abused National banks in uumeasured
language. Il is no wonder that his fellow
Senators laughed him in the face. Aud yet
this grotesqne hum5ug is the chairman Of
the committee on Fiuauce of the Ulited
States Senate. Sunday Star.