Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-03-30

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Notwithstanding q Indignant people aad
Congress have inteSposed and defeated IL
purpose a Pseti lent Cleveland and his
secretary, Hsls Snis6. - regards emitting
% the psnsicnsss from the rolls without hrss
giving sthem hearing, the dirty warfare
against the pensioaers continues. Certain
sdministsaiion organs continue their vitupef-
alton Of the pensioners and rail about frauds
without specifying cases. They have been
thwartsd BY strong public opinion but man
age to gasp out ridiculous statements devoid
the semblance Of truth and only indicative
Of impotent rage at being baked. The line
established BY Mason and Dixon doesn't
limi. these organs, they are found In the
North occasionally but . conspicuous exam
pie 10 furnished by Hoke Smiths own organ,
the Atlanta Journal. Its sentiments give IN
insight irto the kind of man to whom Cieve-
land entrusted his pet schemes for thinning
out" the pensioners. This paper reads in
some Of it, folumus as il Lee had just sur
rendered and inpotent rage must hnd
vent. We refer tc the issue Of March 9Th,
1894, in which the late Gen. B. F. Butler
Il referred to in Q. shameful acfostic that
includes the ep;thets brutal" "vulRar,"
coward" "knave," "sot," "venomous,"
"thisf," .lisr, )" "vilest Of scum" etc, afro
the admonition 'let Yankeedom boast Of
such heroes - thee" This same issue has
many words Of commendation for the hea-
thenish, inhuman act of DR.. Massey. This
oct was perpetrated at Milledgeville when
Sherman's army arrived there and some Of
the poorly clad mes took blankets which
had been left behind. by the retreating
rebels. Hoke's paper gives the following
account Of the dastardly deed for which it
lauds Doctor Massey:
The soldiers swarmed into the city and
nothing except the sick escaped them.
They entered Stetson's hall and seized
eagerly upon the smallpox clothes and bed
ding. and DR.. Massey was too good Con-
federate to make them any the wiser.
He had done very little active killing Of
the enemy, but he was willing to kill some
of the bluecoats in q roundabout way.
He was curious to hear the end Of the
story, for all he knew at the time was that
Sherman moved on to Savannah from Mil
ledgeville.
Years afterward he was appointed
government surveyor at st. Simon's Island.
He noticed number of negroes badly
marked from smallpox.
One Of them he had known in Milledge-
Vile informed him that = great many of
the St. Simon's negroes had gone to Savan-
nah to join Sherman and had found about
forty Of his men in the hospital there with
smallpox. Some of the negroes took it
there and some returned to the land and
there it spread among the blacks.
The doctor then for the first time had the
last chapter in his smallpox story.
General Sherman and his soldiers were
doubtless puzzled about the origin Of the
disease, but had they known the secret Of
Stetson's ball they would have had their
eyes opened long ago.
Thus it was that DIR. Massey gave an
army the smallpox.
This then il the deed done by fiend,
who "had done very little active killing"
such % he never do, yet was "good Con-
federate enough" to desire to innoculate an
army with smallpox. The statement OF the
Atlanta Journal 10 libel on the Confed-
crates who fought for their convictions and
is written in spirit similar to that Of DR..
Massey and his kind who would have de-
pleted with yellow fever Buffers army at
New Orleans. But Gen. Butler was too
smart for them and chiefly because of that
incurred the malignant hatred manifested
in Hoke Smiths organ.
To such has President Cleveland en-
trusted the pension lists.