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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
WARRINGTON. D. C, APRIL &c, 1894.
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

One Wh:es, is Not "Purged," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
0Rt s.c Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names Of 15.2A5
survivors and 2 .2S2 widows, alsss
something over 3.e0O cases were
pending at latest reports. This
makes a total of %, 497. or sew
eF-aI thousand mere mem than
the United States had in Mexico
AT any one time during the war.
These all receive either 50 or
$12 q month.
Among the names are those
of the widow of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. a New Yorker by birth,
who was AdiUtant-GeneraI Of
the United States Army at the
outbreak Of tlae war. and used
his position 10 aid tlae rebels la
preparing for tie struggle. He
resigned his position TO become
Adiutant-Genera Of the South
erR Ccnfederaey. and Officiated
as SUCH until fIRe rebellion col
IapsesI. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing pension since june
@, 1857.
The widow of Thomas J.
sSt0RewaH") Jackson, who
was next TO Lee the most popss-
lar commander of the rebel
armies.
The widow of Maj .-Gen. George
E. Pickett. who commanded a
division i'm the rebel army.
The widow of Naj. Gen. Gideon
J.PfIESw, who commanded a di-
vision in the rebel army.
The widow Of Lieut.-Gen. A. Il.
Hill. who commanded one of
the three corps Of Lees army.
The widow Of Sidney Smith
Lee, wIiO Was dismissed from
the Navy for "gOing ever 10 the
enemy" and afIerWard became
aCOsnR0d0re i'm the rebel navy.
Brighten. Jas. R. Chalmers,
Whe Was FORESTS chief IieH-
tenant.
Maj.-Gen. Dabney III. Maury.
Wh0 commanded the rebel
troerx az the battle Of Chicka-
Eaw Bayou.
Hos y. Ii. Maxey. late United
States Senator from Texas. who
has been drawing his pension
since May "a, 1857. He was a
Mai0r-GeneraI ia the rebel
army.
Hen. Jas. Y. George, Senator
from Mississippi, and who
served i'm the rebel army as a
Colonel. The number Of his
certificate is I7.2I4.
Hon. A. III. Colquift. Senator
from Georgia. whe was n Major
General i'm tlie rebel army.
draws a pension under eerfifs-
cate 10. 100.
The widows above mentioned
are Of men who we're edueafe<.
at tie Government expense. and
afteTward fought 10 destroy the
Government. They went on the
roll at once, while last April
there were pending the claims
Oils. 529 widows Of Union sol.
diers who had not yet been able
10 2eG 0xa lEle roll.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26
TwENTy-NrNE YEARS AGO.

Twenty-Five years ago yesterday the
formal surrender was completed of the
remnants of the rebel armies east of the
Mississippi. Joe Johnston, who had gath
cred together all that was left of the men
who had been opposing our armies in
Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, had
struck his last blow for the doomed Con-
federacy, at Bentonville, more than a
month before. Mobile, Savannah,
Charleston, Columbia, Wilmington, and
Raleigh had fallen in quick succession,
and the gallant Armies of the Tennes-
see, Cumberland, and Ohio, with long
array of battles and victories behind
them, were united for a crushing stroke
upon the last enemies who confronted
them. Johnston bowed before the in
evitable and raised the white flag of
defeat and surrender.
The whole country rang with applause
at the glorious termination of the work.
Suppose that then some seer, aecu-
rately forecasting the future, had told
those victorious Union veterans that 20
years afterward their "grateful" Gov
eminent would still be haggling over
their claims for pensions earned by years
of hardest service in the malarious
swamps Of the Mississippi, by chill
bivouacs on the icy peaks of the Cum
berland, by wading breast deep through
the cold rivers and morasses of the Caro-
linas, by desperate struggles with the
enemy at Donelson, Shiloh, Corintb,
around Vicksburg, Perryville, Stone
River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, the
Atlanta campaign, Franklin, Nashville,
and the March to the Sea. Suppose
that he had truly prophesied that long
after their sons had grown to manhood,
long after they had welcomed their
grandchildren, long after large portion
of the gallant host of which they were
part had passed to the tomb, tens of
thousands of their claims would still be
hanging in the Pension Bureau, and the
press of the country, then telling the
story of their achievements in glowing
language with striking headlines, would
be denouncing them as shirks, coffee
coolers, and mercenaries perjuring them
selves with false testimony as to services
never rendered.
What a miserable, dyspeptic old Jere-
miah such prophet would have been
regarded.
What a contrast it makes-the en-
battled host before which the last rebel
army surrendered, and the aged and
disabled remnant vainly pleading for
tardy Justice at the hands of the Nation
they saved.
Compare the plaudits of % years ago
with the sneers, the malignant defama-
ton of to-day.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

Col. w. p. HEPBURN, of Iowa, has
become very tired of the constant de-
feat of pension bills in the Friday-night
sessions by someone generally KiIgore,
of Texas-raising the point of "No
quorum" and he has given formal no.
tice that he will object to everything in
the House requiring unanimous consent,
until the soldier-haters abandon their
program. He began last Monday morn
ing by Directing to the approval of the
journal, and compelled the House to call
the roll and determine the presence of a
quorum before the journal could be APP
proved. This dose Of their own medi-
cine makes much squirming, as it should.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

BUSINESS is undoubtedly improving,
but very slowly. The shadow of the
Wilson Bill hangs over the business
world like a pail. The shelves of the
stores are empty of goods, but no one
wants to buy any more until he finds
out whether the Wilson Bill will not
deluge the country with cheap foreign
wares. Manufactures will not start up
for the same reason. There is, there
fore, no employment for workingmen
and no wages with which they can buy
what others produce.
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

NATURALLY the St. Louis Republic
has little admiration for Abraham Lin
coin. 1t begins an editorial thus:
Abraham Lincoln ranks with Stonewall
Jackson at the head of the strong and pie
turesque characters OF the civil war period,
but it is, nevertheless, true that when the
Supreme American does come he will be
quite different man from Abraham Lincoln,
or from Stonewall Jackson, either, for that
matter.
Why doesn't the Republic come out
frankly and say that JEFF Davis is its
nearest approach to Supreme Amer
CAM"
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1t is thus seen to be in the highest
degree unfair to compare the number of
pensioners with the strength of the army
at any time. The only true comparison
Is with the entire number of men in the
army, the amount Of fighting they did,
and the loss in killed and wounded and
the deaths from disease. When we look at
these we find the pension-roIl quite
moderate.
Let US examine few details of this
kind.
June 30. 1893, according to the Com
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26
THE NEW YORK TIMESs RAID.

The New York Times seems to have
virtually abandoned the fraud hunt i
started with so much sounding of trum
pets among the pensioners of New \ ORR
State. 1t viii be remembered that i
made a great flourish about having Sc
cured, In some mysterious way, The
names and addresses of some 5000 pen
sioners in the State, and was going tC
make systematic investigation of them
and publish the results. 1t mentioned
with a defiant air that wicked sheet;
representing the "deserters, cofee-c coolers
shirks, and pension sharks probably
meaning The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
had tainted it with being unable to sup
port its allegations with any instances in
proof. Now it "was going to show 'em,
so it was 1t started in with the towns
of Waterford, Gouverneur and Pots
dam, and It's industrious reporters gath
cred up every fragment of village gossip
that they could find relating to pension
ers residing there. We have given the
results in previous numbers Of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE. A more utter
failure to find any trace of fraud is not
on record.
Even the Times appears to recognize
this, for its last " Pension Supplement "
makes little effort to present any new
" facts concerning pensioners. 1t found
in Gouverneur JAS G. Skinner, who be-
longed to Co. D, 10Th n. Y, and at the
battle at Gaines's Mill received a bullet
in his leg, and from this wound progress
i've paralysis ensued. He is now totally
blind, and unable to move either of bis
legs or his right arm. His left arm he
can move very little. He receives s72
month. The Illness young man is
kind enough not to make any disap-
proval of this.
Three other cases were found In Gou-
verneur: w. E. j., Co. G, 18th NY, +"
who got 50 for injury to his foot. This
has been suspended. al. NJ, who did
good service as private in Co. A, Goth
n. Y" who was pensioned at So a month
for disability resulting from typhoid
fever; but the Iimess young man testi-
fes that be looks quite hale and hearty,
and untroubled by sickness" and works
pretty regular at carpentering. The
third is Squire Tucker, of Potsdam,
and the 18th n. Y, who draws pen
sion of SIT for catarrh, deafness, and
diseases of the respiratory organs, which
the Times thinks ought to be taken
away, mainly, as far as we can see, be-
cause be is a Republican and political
worker.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

SHERMAN started into the Atlanta
campaign with about 100000 fighting
men. BY the time the city was taken he
had lost 4,423 killed, 1892 wounded.
and 4,422 missing, total, 1862. Prob
ably 10000 more had been disabled by
the hardships of the campaign. They
made pensioners very rapidly ~ those
days.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

How much longer is this frIitless
fraud hunt going to last, and how
many more hundreds of thousands Of
dollars are to be spent in it?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

IT used to be claimed that it cost the
Government about 81, 100000 for every
Indian that was killed. Has anybody
figured out how much it has cost for
every pension fraud discovered?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

WHY should claimants pension be
withheld until some one on the rolls dies
and makes place for him? We didn't
treat the bondholders that way.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

IT has been suggested that humanity
requires that Buck" Kilgore be chloro-
formed the first time that quorum is
counted.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-26

sr.alD ~ ne .sasIo. so.I otes a. sso0nOss sar1sa
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27

THOSE editors who worship at the
shrine of silver very fiippantly de-
clare the necessity of bimetalism.
Can the United States alone dictate
to the world what shall constitute
either a gold or silver dollar? If
so, this government would also be
empowered to stipulate what for
eign governments shall pay for our
cotton, corn and wheat. The rea-
son why our silver dollars will not
pass at their face value beyond the
limits of the United States is be-
cause bimetalism has not been eE-
tablished between nations, and IN
til this is done our silver dollar will
remain a deprecated currency. The
United States is both an importing
and an exporting nation, not only
so, but its national debt is made
payable in gold, therefore should
we fall so low as to go to a silver
basis that debt would be doubled.
This country would then be placed
in the position of Mexico, Guate-
mela and the Argentine Republic.
Those nations are on a silver basis
and their national debt is payable
in gold, and because of the depreci-
alton of silver, President Diaz, of
Mexico, has recently intimated in a
message to the Mexican congress
that Europe might look for a de-
fault of interest on the Mexican
debt if the nation was put to more
expense on occount of the fall in
silver. Gautemela has already Civ
en- notice of its inability to pay the
interest on bonds that will fall due
in July next. There are other cOun-
tries on q silver basis in the same
predicament as those mentioned.
The result of their folly should be
sufficient warning to this country
not to follow their example. Those
nations have solved the problem, to
their sorrow, that bimetalism can
not be established except by inter
national agreement.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27

ling to subhlit it to the People. We
do not ask So much Of them as to be-
lieve what we say without publish
ing the evidence. The platform
demands the fepeal of the cowardly
makeshift, the Sherman law. II
also favors the uses of both gold
and silver as the standard money of
the country and the coinage of these
metals without discrimination, pro-
vided the dollar unit of coinage of
both metals is of legal intrinsic and
exchangeable value. 1t is also a
noticeable fact that it demands that
the gold dollar and the silver dollar
shall be of equal purchasing power,
not only in the Uuited States, but in
the ''markets." Not until an inter
national agreement has been enter
ed into, or in other words, not I'M
til after the different nations of the
world have entered into such legis-
latiOn as will cause the equal purchas-
ing power of the gold and silver dol
lar in the ''markets" does the Demo
cratic party, through it's platform,
declare in favor of the free coinage
of silver. Those who favor the
coinage of silver dollars at l6 to
are not in harmony with that plat
form, because such dollars are not
of equal purchasing power with the
gold dollar beyond the boundaries
of the United States.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27
War of the Races.

Tallulah, La, April ga race
war Is on in this section of Madison
parish, and SO far one white man
and one negro have been killed, one
white man badly beaten and thirteen
negroes are now in captivity charg-
ed with murder. The country is
being secured by the posse and ev-
cry effort possible will be made to
capture al the guilty parties. There
are between thirty and forty negroes
implicated.
Friday, Charles J. Mcfarland,
the manager of the Dancy place, run
by Thomas J. Ward as lessee, had
a difficulty with a negro tenant on
the place by the name of Joseph II.
Hopkins, in which Mcfarland was
beaten.
Friday evening a posse started in
pursuit of this negro, who fed.
They came to Tallulah in their
search, and concluded to give up
the attempt and return home. Nc
Farland and a companion named
Boyce started ahead, and when they
had gone as far as the Dancy resi-
deHce, turned to cross the bayou.
When at the bridge in front of the
residence on Brushy bayou, and as
they were in the act of crossing
they were fired upon from ambush
and Royce was instantly killed.
Mcfarland escaped uRhuFt to the
woods.
The coroner's jury charges the
following negroes with the crime;
Thomas Claxton, Shell Claxton,
Tom Claxton, Pies Claxton, Ollie
Claxton, Geo. Claxton, Scott Har.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27
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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27

IT seems that the propitiOus time
for the South to secure immigration
is at hand. There is no doubt but
what many who have been residing
in the North have decided to move
to a more congenial climate. An
effort is being made by some of the
railroad companies, whose roads
traverse the South, to induce immi-
grafton along their line, and in many
instances have succeeded in their
undertaking. Hardeman county
would be greatly benefited if colo
mics of thrifty, progressive and
moneyed farmers were to locate
within its bounds. We have thous-
ands of acres of land in this county
that could be bought cheap.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27
A NeQro Furnina Nhita.

Houston, Miss, April 2I.-Sam
Neal, mulatto, living near this
place, Las been turning white for
the past two months. There is no
abrasion of shedding of the skin,
the dark brown pigment disappear
ing gradually, leaving a clear com
plexion as that of any white man.
His hair is black, soft and curly,
and as the white spots occur on the
scalp the hair turns perfectly white
also. In the past two months the
color in his face has changed, except
the nose, and fully one-half of his
entire body is in like condition.
Neal stated to the Commercial cor
respondent that he feels no incon-
venience whatever from the change
and when it was suggested that he
was being prepared for an angel, he
replied: "Fo de Lord, l believe
somethin' gwine to happen to me. !"
Memphis Commercial.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27
PARTY PRINCIPLES.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-Presi.
dent Cleveland has forwarded the
following letter to Hon. Chauncey
F. Black, president of the National
Associations of Democratic clubs:
''ExECUTIvE MANSION, WASHING
TON, ID. O., April 2l.-Hon Chaun-
cey F. Black, Esq.-Dear Sir: !
have carefully read the communities
ton you lately placed in my hands,
setting forth the future purposes
and present needs of the National
Association of Democratic Clubs.
'EThe achievements of this organ
ization should be familiar to all who
are interested in the continuation of
Democratic supremacy and should
enlist the encouragement of those
who appreciate the Importance of an
effective dissemination of political
doctrine.
"YOur association has done much
by way of educating our people
touching the particular subjects
which are recognized as belonging
to the Democratic faith, but it seems
to me that its best service has been
an enforcement and demonstration
of the truth that our party is best
organized and more powerful when
it strives for principles instead of
spoils, and that it quickly responds
to the stimulus supplied by an en-
listment in the peoples cause.
''This acknowledgment of the i'm
pOrtant services rendered to the adj
vancement of true Democracy sug-
gests that the National Association
of Democratic Clubs and every other
Democratic agency, should labor I'M
ceasingly and earnestly to save our
party, in this time of its power and
responsibility, from the degradation
and disgrace of failure to redeem
the pledges upon which our fellow
cOuntrymen entrusted us with the
control of their government.
"All who are charged, on behalf
of the Democratic party, with the
redemption of these pledges should
now be impressively reminded, that
as we won our way to victory under
the banner of tariff reform, so our
insistance upon the prinGiple in the
condition of our retention of the
peoples trust, and that fealty to
party organization demands the sub
ordination of individual advantages
and wishes, and the putting aside of
petty and ignOble jealOusies and
chickering's, when party principles
and party integrity and party exist
ence are at stake.
81 cheerfully enclose cnntribu-
ton to the funds necessary to carry
on the good work of your organiza-
ton with hearty wish for its con-
tinued success and usefulness.
Yours very truly,
"GRoYER CLEVELAND"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27

THE census report shows that the
total wealth of the country in 1890
was SOS, 037, O9l, 900. This aggre-
gate if equally divided would give
$1,os9 per capita of the population.
New York and Pennsylvania togeth-
er possess nearly one-fourth of the
entire above wealth.
While those States were being en-
riched, the wealth of the States
which have no protected industries
has been depleted because of the I'M
just law that protects the classes at
the expense of the masses.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-27

vey, Tom Griffin; Hal Grayson and
Horace Wilson. Of the above Tom,
Ollie aud George Claxton are in
jail Pies Claxton is under surveil-
lance. All the others have fed.
The following suspects are also I'M
der arrest: Dave Hawkins, Joe La
cey, Sam Slaughter and Jonas GREY.
Parties are out in all directions
after the others implicated.
The negroes were located in the
woods last night about a quarter of
a mile from the killing. The sher-
if with about fifty deputies sur
rounded the woods and captured
Harris Williams. Three negroes
rode up at that moment antPwound-
ed one of the deputies, who in turn
fired upon and killed him. Three
more negroes were captured and
lodged In jail.