St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-25
FOREVER Misunderstood.
Lochren,s Queer Experience With
the Goddess or Justice.

LOchren,s Queer Experience With
the Goddess on Justice.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Pe \sion Com
missioner Lochren : experiencing a
great many Of the drawGccks that per-
tain to greatness. He suspends pensions
that in his view have been granted i'll
his judgment without the forms of law,
and finds himself engaged III a
lawsuit with a great man from
Michigan. Then statesmen in the house
and senate rail at him. Prominent
Democrats join teams with Republicans
to discredit his policy. Then congress
bitches a condemnatory clause upon an
urgency deficiency bill and passes it,
compelling him to change the system he
has adopted to protect the treasury.
Then the court renders an adverse de-
cision to his policy.
lie accidentally appoints some rep-
utable Southern physician who was a
surgeon in the Confederate army, OIL an
examining board, and before supdown
he IS assailed all along the line from
Bangor to San Francisco by his Grand
Army comrades, who sarcastically ask
it the man who was in the
First Minnesota charge at Gettys-
burg has surrendered finally to the
hated minions of Jefferson Davis. He
then lnstructS his subordinates to
give the preference to physicians who
did not serve the Confederacy, merely
to prevent criticism. One of his depu-
ties misunderstands the orders, and
issues rule that no Confederate sur
geon need apply. Then the whole state
of Texas climbs up OH the Lone Star
ear and howls for rage, and every eX-
Confederate i'll the land joins III the
chorus of "Shame! shame!"
The lame, the halt and the blind
appeal TO his sympathies; the widow
and the fatherless pour into his patieht
ear their tale of woe. The slick claiIii
agent smiles blandly upon him. and
strives to loot the treasury as he smiles.
Members of congress denounce his
policy on the floor of the house, and
haunt his private Office to advance the
claims of constituents or coax him for a
clerkship for friend.
Then there are chickering's, and jeal-
ousieS, and envies, and Strivings after
promotion among the employees in his
Oluce. EuOTlS OI honest men TO secure
hearing delayed and hindered by dis
honest clerks. Pools and rings outside
the bureau, with tentacleS inside, to 0ts
watched and thWarted. ~
In the midst of it all sits the judge
calm as summer morning. that
same old pipe, so we'll known
at the HeMfepin county court house,
filling the enveloping atmosphere with
the blue haze of the substantial comfort
of my lady Nicotine. He listens judi!
claliy. decides promptly, and pursueS
the even tenor of his way without 4
word Of hatred or re proach for any one
OF the ten thousand annoyanees which
assaiI him.
Does any one doubt that he is the
right man in the right place.? Let the
douDter cease to doubt. He does. not
know the art of the politician. He has
no silent partner on the outside getting
through pensions. He has 10 entangling
alliances ofAanY character ready to
explode scandal bomb under his chair.
The rumors of a change in the PEN
sion bureau have ceased to be coined by
ambitious newspaper men. They have
discovered that there is no use lying as
long as there is no election pending.
Judge Lochren will continue to run the
pension bureau, after his own fashion,
subject to the laws of the land, upless
Mr.. Cleveland shall conclude to call him
to higher and more responsible posi-
tiOn.