Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-08
Democratic Pension Boards.

Democratic Pension Boards,
A Washington special in the Louis
vile Courier-Journal thus gives fur
Their evidence that President Cleve-
land is determined to carry out the
policy of recognizing all the Pen
sion Examining Boards and making
their membership wholly Democratic:
There is at least one man in Office here
who believes that Democrats alone should
get the pluns Judge Lochren, Comlnis-
sioner of Pensions has side-tracked the
old rulings governing the appointments OF
medical boards. Instead OF putting two
Democrats and one Republican on board
as heretofore, he will now appoint three
loyal sons of the Democracy. He thinks
this will strike at the very root Of the PEN
sion evil He is cognizant Of the fact that
this new department will cause a stir, but
he will carry out his policy with frnness
3This one thing the Democrats have COM
mitted themselves to do" he Is quoted as
saying, @to sift as far as possible the rub
bfsh which has been drifting into this PEN
sion cesspoCL The party has committed
itself to reform in this matter. and there
rs no better way to make start than by
having Democrats On these boards The
President will probably support this plan
OF reform. 1t is known that Secretary
sion department and 1t is In following out
this line of thought 1t is believed. that
Judge Lochren has taken his present stand.
It Is generally believed that Judge Loeb
rem took this step after consultation with
President Cleveland and Secretary Smith
Hence there is moro than ordinary sig
ni6cance 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-
electing him in 1892. Heretofore the
Pension Examing Boards "have con-
sis:ed 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
1875. Judge Lochren was a Union
soldier Of good record, but he Is now
merely the tool Of a conscript who
permitted his own substitute to die
in poor-house, and is now deter
mined to make the poor-houses the |
last habitations Of as many disabled |
Union veterans as he can force with |
in their walls
The New York Press and the Des |
Moines Register are united in the |
81 ~ hot ic
fact that the administration pro- |
poses to conduct a mercilesS campaign |
against the men that saved the ma |
ton. The Democratic party was the |
malignant foe OF the Union soldiers !
in the years when half the Democracy
was employed in shooting them do Hn
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.. Cleyeland's former term
a Republican Senate constituted
a 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 sueering |
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
ment is Democratic. The warfare on
the veterans is to begin in deadly
earnest. The Republican party, the
unfaltering champion and the friend
of the Union soldier, takes up the
gage of battle in his behalf. No
genuine Republican desires to see a
SINCE pension dishonesty drawn |
from the National Treasury; but the
party of Grant and Hayes, of Gar
field 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
of the benefits to which they are
justly entitled by the laws of a
grateful nation.