Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-10-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(ouR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. }

Secretary Carlisle ought to feel
ashamed of having lent himself to
the trumped up charge against MIR.
Morton, the republican candidate
for governor of New York, of hav-
ing violated the alien contract la
Dor law, knowing when he did so
that it was done for no other pur-
pose than to attempt to array the
labor organizations of New York
against Mr.. Morton, and that no
attempt was really to be made to
convict Mr.. Morton of the absurd
charge, the idea being merely to
keep the matter open until the
election. The facts in the case,
which were promptly stated by
Mr.. Morton as soon as his atten-
ton was called to the matter, are
plain enough for even the most
bigotted democrat to see. The
man in question is an Englishman
who was employed by Mr.. Morton
as domestic servant class ex-
pressly excepted by the alien con-
tract law, and a class in which
white male Americans are seldom
found-while he was in London,
and who returned with him in
that capacity when he came home.
Had Mr.. Morton not been the
candidate for governor of New
York the case never would have
been heard of. AS it is, the bring
ing of such charge is an acknowl-
edgement by the democrats other
desperate condition in New York,
and it is not likely to influence the
vote of any intelligent man against
Mr.. Morton. On the contrary, it
is more likely to make him votes
among men who are too honorable
to countenance diShonOrable meth
ods on the part of the democratic,
or any other party.
From North, from West, from
East, aye, and from the South, too,
nothing but good news comes to
the Republican Congressional cam
paign committee. The people are
thoroughly alive to the necessity
of putting an effectual stop to
democratic legislation before it has
brought the country to evan a
worse condition than it now finds
itself in, and they know that the
first step needed is to put the re-
publican party in control of the
House, and unless all indications
are at fault they are going to do it
next month.
The figures contained in the
annual report of the commissioner
of pensions, for the year ending
June so, '94, tell story of the
manner in which the old soldiers
have been treated by the demo-
cratic o fficials that ought to make
every democrat blush with shame.
The commissioner covered into
the Treasury the enormous amount
of S25, ,205.712,65, which remained
unexpended of the money appro-
priated for pensions by Congress,
while there remained unacted up
on in the files of the Office applica-
tons for pensions and for increase
of pensions to the number of 619,s
027. During the entire twelve
months covered by the re-
port only 39,095 new pensioners
were added to the rolls, while for
death and other causes 1881
were dropped. 1t adds to the
bitterness of the story to say that
only 40, 14S of the large number of
applications remaining unacted up
on were filed during the year. And
at this very minute a large por-
ton of the clerical force of the
Pension Bureau, which should be
at work on the unacted upon ap-
plications, are putting in their time
on work that has no proper con-
nection with pensions-trying TO
elect democratic Congressman.
Every old soldier who votes the
democratic ticket endorses the
pension and other policies of the
administration.
Oh yes, this administration dis
penses reform in great big chuncks
all the time. 1t was democratic
reform that carried five members
of the Cabinet to Batavia, New
York. incidentally to hear anoth-