Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-10-20
A TRUMPTED-UP CHARGE.
Encouraging News-SwindIing veter-
ans Democratic Reform.
From our regular correspondeni.)

Carlisle ought to feel ashamed of hay-
| ing lent himself to the trumped-np
charge against Mr.. Morton, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor Of
New York, of having violated the
alien contract labor law. knowing
when he did SO that it was done for
no other purpose than to attempt to
array the labor organizations of New
York against Mr.. Morton, and that 10
attempt was really to be made TO con-
vict Mr.. Morton of the absurd charge,
1.-THE idea being merely to keep the mat
tN open until the election. The facts
in the case. which were promptly
stated by Mr.. Morton as soon as his
attention was called to the matter, are
| plain enough for even the most bigot-
ted Democrat to see. The man in
question is an Englishnan who was
lemployed by Mr.. Morton as doines-
| tic servant-a class expressly except
ed by the alien contract 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 candi-
date for Governor OF New York the
case never would have b. en- heard of
AS it is, the bringing of such charge
in an acknowledgment by the Demo
Gratis of their desperate condition in
New York. and it is not likely to in
f1uence the vote of any intelligel t
man against Mr. Morton. On the con-
trary, it is more likely to make him
votes amorg men who are too honor
able to countenance much dishonora-
Bile methods on the part of the Demo
cratic, or any other party.
From North, from West, from East,
aye, and from the South, too, nothing
bit good news comes to the Republi-
can Congressional campaign commit
tee. The people are thoroughly alive
to the necessity of putting an eff-ctual
stop to Democratic legislation before
it has brought the country to
even a worse condition than it
now finds itself iii, and they knowthat
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 Jane 50, 1894, tell
a story of the manner i'll which the old
soldiers have been treated By the
Democratic officials that ought to make
every Democrat blush with shame.
The commissioner covered into the
Treasury the enormous amount Of
S25, eos. 7I2.65, which remained unex-
pended of the money appropriated for
pensions by Congress. while there re-
NAMED Enacted upon in the files of
the Office applications for pensions and
for increase of pensions to the number
of 6Io,o27 During the entire twelve
months covered by the report only 80, !
| oS5 new pensioners were added to the |
rolls, while for death and other causes
1881 were dropped. 1t aids to the
bitterness of the story to say that only |
40, I4S Of the large number of applice
lions remaining Enacted upon were
filel during the year. And at this |
very minute large portion of the !
clerical force of thu Pension Bureau,
which should be at work on the unact-
ed upon applications, are putting in
their time on work that has no proper
connection with pension5-trying to
elect Democratic Congressman. Every
old soldier who votes the Democratic
ticket endorses the pension and other
politics of the administration.
Oh, yes this administration di. :
penses reform in great big chunks all
the time. 1t was Democratic reform
that carried five members of the Cibi-
net to Batavia, N v, incidentally to
hear another member of the Cabinet
Secretary Carlisle-deliver an address
on Robert Morris, but principally to
try to help along the lettering Demo
cratic campaign in that State. AMI it
was also Democratic reform that caus-
ed the Cabinet party, which included
number of ladies. to allow them
selves to be hauled from Washington
to Batavia and back again in the pri-
vate cars of two railroad maynates,
furnished gratis by the railroads and
even provided with refreshments,
liquid and otherwise, at the expense
of the ever big hearted railroads -5g
hearted in their dealing with officials
who can be used by them.
A great mary people are asking
whether an off, opinion rendered
| by Solicitor Reeves, of the Treasury de-
partment, will result in a flood of pa
| per money. similar to the s'ret dog"
and ''wild cat" currency of state bank
days. The opinion is thai any coun-
| ty, the constitution Of the State in
which it is located permitting has the
legal right to issue interest bearing
bonds in any denominations it may
see fit, and that such bonds are not
liable to federal taxation 1t is believ-
ed that under this opinion, unless
| it is upset by the courts. a county
could issue bonds as low as 81 each
and make the interest SO low that they
could be used as currency. thus prac-
tically issuing its own money, which
would be a little more than even the
widest Populist in Congress has ever
advocated, to say nothing of its
knocking -out the law which imposes
tax of 10 per cent on all currency
other than that issued by the Govern
ment. law which Congress at its
last session very positively declined