The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-05

showing that at least 1900 persons in
Ohio drawing pensions under the Disa-
bility Act Of 1850 had been suspended
since the Inauguration of Cleveland. He
concluded as follows:
"The whole policy Of the Pension
Bureau seems to have been changed
from one of generous treatment of those
who saved the Union to one of the most
revengeful. On Friday last Senator
Cullom, of Illinois, presented unique
memorial to the Senate of the United
States. 1t was an appeal to Congress.
signed by about 300 ex-soldiers of Illi-
nois, who asked Cangress to take steps
to shield the ex-soldiers from the spies
and detectives working in the secret
service of the Government, who travel
about in concealment and disguise in eli
localities, consulting and cooperating
with such citizens as have been distin-
guished for their antipathy to those
who fought for the flag. A large gang
OF these skunks have been operating in
Ohio for months past, and are, 80 l am
informed, working under the personal
supervision and direction of this same
Colonel w. A. Taylor. Lest some
Democrat, or Taylor himself, perhaps,
who never tires of referring to his SOL
ier record, may fail 70 give the exact
extent of his services to his country I
have taken the pains to get the record
from the War Department The mus
ter and the rolls of Company A, One
hundred and fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, have upon them
the following record:
Taylor, William A., private; born in
Perry county, Ohio, age thirty years;
occupation, attorney; enrolled May .,
1864, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, by Lucius P.
Marsh, for 100 days. Blue eyes, light
hair, light complexion; height, feet
10 1-2 inches. Mustered May 8,
1864, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, by Lieutenant
ii. +. Hazen, as substitute for Ed
Merkel. Mustered out with Company
August "a, 1864.
Ed. Merkle, am told, was Zanes-
vile brewer. The number of pieces
of silver or quantity of merchandise
that Taylor received for being hi s sub
stitute is not stated. The sole service
that this man Taylor, who went to the
front for pay rather than for patriot
ism performed, was guarding rebel
prisoners at Camp Bradford, near Bal
timore, for about thirty days.
The circulars sent out by Pension At
torney Phillips, upon examination, are
found to deal with legitimate pension
matters alone. In them no reference is
made tc politics They represent only
the ordinary methods adopted by pen
sion attorneys in securing business.
The circular has the approval of the
Pension Bureau, and no one but will
full Liar and base traducer of character
like Bill Taylor would have imagined
that Major Dick had anything what
ever to do with it. Old soldiers in this
city are indignant at the shameless at
tack made upon Major Dick by Candi-
date Taylor. They recall the fact that
in many instances Dick has been of
great assistance to deserving veterans
In obtaining pensions, and that he
never accepted stamps even to cover
the postage of the letters he wrote. The
old soldiers are rising up and denounc-
ing Taylor for his unmitigated lie in de-
claring Charley Dick to be ''swindler"
and shark" Mayor Dicks character is
known by his fellow-citizens of Sum-
init county, and Taylor, whose charac-
ter has been quite unknown to them,
will find before the close of his cam
paign that he has done himself much
harm and Dick but little if anv