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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-11-11
ELECTION NOTES.
Returns from Various States as to Success
full Tickets.

Returns from Various States to Success
full Tickets.
The latest returns from the State and mu-
nicipal elections Of Nov. 2, in brief are as fol-
lows:
In New York, the most interesting contest
was for Mayor of Greater New York. Judge
Robert A. Van Wyck. Tammany's candidate,
was elected by over $4,000 plurality, and the
entire Democratic ticket WAS elected by ma
jorities ranging from 10000 to 100000 Van
Wyck had about DOS, 9i3 votes Low, Citizens
Union, about TAI, 1865; Tracy. Republican. 1O1,-
I76 aud George. Jefferson Democrat 1874.
In the Third Congressional District, Edmund
II. briggs Democrat, was elected to Congress.
In Virginia, the Democratic State ticket was
elected by about $4,000 majority, and the
Legislature is Democratic. Hon. John w.
Daniel will be returned to the UDied States
Senate. j. Hogs Tyler was elected Governor.
In Iowa, Shaw, Republican candidate for
Governor, was elected by some 1000 plurality.
The Legislature is heavily Republican.
In Maryland, the Legislature is Republican,
having several majority on joint ballot. 1t
will elect a successor to Senator German. The
election was very close.
In Pennsylvania, the entire Republican
State ticket was elected. 1t was headed by
Beacon for Treasurer, who got 364, 597, as
against 24O, 216 for his nearest opponent, Brown,
Democrat.
In Ohio Bushnell Republican, candidate for
reelection as Governor, won by probably
$4,000 plurality. At this writing One-third of
the State has been heard from on the Legis-
lative question, and BnshnelPs plurality over
Chapman is g. lis. while the aggregate of the
pluralities of the Republican candidates for the
Legislature in the same Counties is only ,553
The question of whether Senator Mark Hanna
will have majority of the votes i'll the Legis-
lature is undecided.
In Kentucky, Samuel J. Shackelford, Silver
Democratic nominee for Appellate Court Clerk,
won by over $4,000 majority. Louisville
elected Weaver, Democratic candidate for
Mayor Silver Democrats have majority in
the Legislature, and ex-senator Blackburn has
announced his candidacy to succeed Senator
Lindsay i'll two years
In South Dakota the judicial elections
suited iii the success of six out of eight Repub-
lican Judges, while the Fusionists have two.
In New Jersey the Legislature will have
Republican majority OF 81 on joint ballot.
In Colorado the official returns will have to
show who won. Unofficial returns point to
the election of w. II. Gabbert, Populist- Demo
crat. for Supreme Court Judge.
In Nebraska the Fusion State ticket was
elected as against the Republican, with about
10000 plurality for the head of the ticket,
sullivan, candidate for Supreme Court Judge.
In Massachusetts. Roger Wacot,, Republican,
has a }puralsy of about $4,000 over William
Everett, Gold Democrat, and q. Fred Williams,
Democrat Republicans have O considerable
majority in the Assembly,
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The Commissioner of Pensions re-
port shows that there are 1862 PEN
sioners residing outside of the United
States, who received last year an aggre-
gate of s619,945.SS. The way these
are scattered shows the rowing nature Of
some of the veterans. There are one OF
two IN nearly every country in the
world. The largest number is in
Canada, 9S1; the next is Germany
621 with Ireland third-403. There
are only 81 in France, and q in Aus
tria-Hungary, and four in Russia.
British Guiana, Bulgaria, Comoro
Islands, Dutch East Indies, Ecuador.
Egypt, Isle of Man, Korea, Mauritius.
Portugal, Rumania, st. Helena, Tahiti
and Uruguay each have one. The
Azores have 3; Bahamas, 2; Brazil, 3;
Chile, 9; China, 10; Cyprus. 2; Dem
mark, "a; England, 3O2; Greece, 4;
Italy, %; Japan, II; Malta, 2; Mexico,
80; Siam, 2; South African Republic
4 F.; Switzerland, IS; Turkey, s; Nor
way, 80.
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THE BOARDS OF PENSION HAMMERS.
Commissioner Evans is being sharply
criticised by the advocates of pseudo
civil service because he is doing his best
to get rid of the Boards of Examining
Surgeons foisted upon the veterans by
Cleveland, who tried to make the infic-
ton perpetual, by covering them under
the Civil Service classification. One of
the loudest complaints is that he has ap-
pointed other Boards in the places occu-
pied by those appointed by Cleveland,
and taken their occupation and emolu
ments away from them by directing the
claimants to appear before the new
Boards.
This he has a perfect right TO do.
The men who are complaining show
only their animus over the loss of spoils,
and their ignorance of the Civil Service
law. The Boards were included in the
Civil Service classification only by trick.
They never belonged there, and UNI
doubtedly as soon as President McKin
ley can have leisure to take the matter
up he will sweep the whole thing away.
The Solicitor of the Treasury has
clearly shown, in al opinion published
IN HE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, that these
men have no right or claim to be con-
sidered United States officials, and he
backs up his opinion by decisions Of the
United States Supreme Court. These
Examining Surgeons are no more United
States officers than the men who furnish
the Departments with coal and wood,
ice and stationery. They stand in the
position of contractors for any other
kind of service to the Government,
and the Commissioner has the most abso-
Lutte right to designate any other men he
may choose to perform that service.
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Next week we shall begin the publ
cation of very interesting series of
contributions under this title from the
gifted pen of Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood,
whose A Century in the White House"
received such favor from our readers.
In "The Historic Homes Of Washing
ton," our readers will be introduced to
the men and women who in their day
played most important parts in the max
ing of the history of this great Nation.
Their personalities will be depicted in
vivid, lifelike colors, which will make
them live and breathe again, and help
everyone to better knowledge of the
history of our country.
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81 KLEGG AGAIN.

Next week THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
will begin again the publication of the
experiences of ST Klegg and his part
ner Shorty in their vivid and exciting
development from raw recruits to
seasoned veterans. There has never
been a more fascinating and life-like
story of the experiences of the vol
unteer soldiers than this. 1t is
something that went directly to the
hearts Of all those "who had been
there" as we'll as of those who had not,
but wanted to know just exactly how
they got there. It's continuance has
been loudly demanded, and now we
are gratified at being able to resume it.
1t will be one of the great treats that we
have in store for our readers this Winter.
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Gen. A. w. GREELY, in charge of the
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THURSDAY,

sion Bureau-the intolerable delay in
the adjudication of claims. 1t is some
thing that THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has
always vehemently protested against.
If the claims before the Bureau were
once settled, and its business brought up
to date, the amount of pension expendi
lures would at once drop to the neigh
borhood of $129,O0O,OOO, and then the
diminution would go on rapidly from
year to year, as Death made his ravages
among the aged veterans. But so long
as there are hundreds of thousands Of
unadjudicated claims in the Pension
Bureau, which daily pile up arrears-so
long as the Bureau pursues Cleveland's
vicious policy of staving off settlement
in the hopes that the veterans will die,
and thus sage to the Treasury the
amounts that are due them, we shall
have this startling item of tens of mil
lions Of expenditure above the aggregate
annual value of the pension-roll. The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE has persistently
urged the heroic method Of reducing the
pension expenditures by clearing up the
desks and pigeon-holes of the Pension
Bureau and bringing its business up to
date. This course is not only eminently
just and right toward the pensioners, but
it is eminently business like, and the
only course that is consistent with the
dignity of the Government. Payment
to the bondholders was not STAYED off in
the hopes that their death would hqui-
date their claims. The only President
that showed a genuine disposition to
have this done was Gen. Harrison, and
had he been reelected it would have
been accomplished. This was one Of
the grounds upon which THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE urged his reelection.
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THE Georgia Legislature has turned
from the brutalities Of the infamous
prison system Of the State to consider
those of football, and is about to pass a
bill prohibiting games at which admis-
sion is charged. People have never I'M
derstood that games at which admission
was charged were more particularly
brutal than impromptu affairs that all
healthy-minded boys are liable to en-
gage IN.
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THE Confederate veterans are in a
state of mind over the charge that two
prominent members of their History
Committee have been in the pay of the
American Book Company, and secured
the Endorsement of the Association for
"a strictly Southern history of the
United States" for use in the schools
of Virginia. This was a big stroke of
business for the American Book Com
pany, since it meant that the book go in
dorsed would probably be adopted all
over the South. Lee Camp, Of Rich
mond, Va, has requested the Grand
p Commander to investigate the charge.
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True to the Veteran.

Stephen Nj. Long. East Orange, N. j.,
writes Il desire to congratulate you on
the continued success OF The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE, and the work you are doing TOR
tho old soldiers, every one OF whom should
take the paper. In my opinion, it is the
only publication devoted to their interests"
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YOUR PAPER FREE!!

In response to many requests from
people who regard The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE itself as the most desirable
premium for club, we have decided to
offer the paper for one year, postpaid, to
any one who will send us club of only
four yearly subscribers at 81 each.
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ANY day Spain may have a bitter
civil war on hand, which will make her
withdraw her bloody hands from Cuba.
The condition of the Kingdom is very
bad in every way. The Treasury is
bankrupt, the taxes are enormous, the
people are disguised with the corruption
and rapacity Of the officials, the crops
are deficient all over the Peninsula, and
manufactures and trade are almost at a
stand-still. This gives an opportunity
to the Carlists, who always come to the
front in bad times. The desperate
people are likely to turn to any source
of relief.
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He Must Have IL.

D. N. Robinson, Co. |, S.h Ind, Escanaba,
Mich, writes a. have received the looks,
and think them excellent. | would not Go
without THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for four
times its price. l have nearly every num-
Der since 1880, and will continue TO take
the paper until l am numbered with the
comrades who have answered the Ast roll
call"
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The next important statement that
strikes one is that the aggregate annual
value of the pensions now granted
is but S129,795,428. This is some
thing that should be carefully kept
in mind when considering the probable
ities Of the diminution of the pension
roll. 1t is here that the diminution
must be expected. The difference be-
tween s129,7 95, 42S-the actual aggre-
gate of the pensions already allowed,
and Sal ,990,936.75, the amount actu-
ally disbursed by the Pension Agents is
s72,195,508.75. This represents arrears
of pensions, which have been accumulat-
ing in the long years during which
the claims have been held under Eek
animation. This indicates the greatest
scandal in the management Of the Pen
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-11-11

THE Spanish soldiers in Cuba have
not been paid for six months, but Cap
tain-General Weyler took home a couple
of million dollars, which he had laid up
for rainy day.
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THE best way to begin reduction of
the pension-roll is to settle up every
mans claim, and pay the arrearages.
Then the pension expenditures will
rapidly shrink as Death makes his in
roads in the ranks of the veterans.
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THIS years report shows that there
are 621 pensioners in Germany, who re-
ceive altogether $94,547.25, or S152.26
each.
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If our Congress should act in the
rowdyish way that the Austrian Parlia-
ment has been going On for several
weeks, what a text the monarchical
papers of Europe would have on the
vulgarism and failures of popular Gov
eminent?
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One comrade has strayed away to
far-of st. Helena. He gets pension
Of SO month.
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THERE are Z survivors and 2,Sl0
widows Of the War of 1872 on the pen
sion rolls
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THERE are 1892 survivors, and SOP
widows Of the Mexican War on the
pension rolls.
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THERE are 168,785 pensioners on the
roll who only receive So month, the
lowest rate allowed by the law. OF these
1888 receive their pensions under the
act of June q, 1890, and 1882 under
the general law.
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THERE are five pensioners in Cuba,
who receive in the aggregate $685. a
year, or $127.20 each.
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THERE are 1878 survivors and 4,288
widows Of Indian wars on the pension
rolls.
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The fees paid Examining Surgeons
last year aggregated $678,395.44. No
wonder the callow young graduates
from the medical schools, who received
this pap while waiting for patients, howl
at its being taken away from them.
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Under any sort of a fair computation
Lochren must have rejected two cases
where he allowed one. The record
shows 1924 straight reflections during
the year, without counting denials Of
applications for an increase. This is
one instance in which the Pension Bu-
reau figures are not padded This
would make over 1900 reflections per
week, and in all probability l ,450 of the
800 we're just claims, to which the
claimants earned a right by the hardest
and most dangerous service, and the de-
NAL of which was fragrant injustice.
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UNE Every subscriber
should compare this with the number Oh
the yellow address slip containing his
name. If that number is $40, he has
only one paper more coming to him. If
$50, he will have two. and so on. He
will do us a favor by watching these
closely, so as to know when his subscrip-
ton expires, that be may renew in time,
and it will be to his interest, for there
are so many valuable serials now run
ming through the paper that he will feel
he cannot afford to miss a number.
We ask everyone, therefore, TO look at
once at the address slip on his paper,
and see how near it comes to S4S.
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with eager anticipation.

WYOMING has developed rival to
Klondike. 1t is in Carbon County, in
the heart of the foothills Of the Sierra
Madre range of the Continental Divide.
"The Mountain of Gold" as it is called,
is $500 feet high, 5000 feet one way,
by 5000 another, and gold is being
found all over it. In some parts the
ore assays as high as $1,000 a ton.
How much there is of it is the question.
Some experts think that the leads will
grow richer as they are driven in, until
the heart Of the mountain will be found
to be a solid mass Of ore. Others fear
that they will soon pinch out. But it is
remembered that the same men pre-.
dicted that the leads at Leadville and
Cripple Creek would soon pinch out.
All the indications about the "Mount-
ain Of Gold are so different, however,
from previous auriferous signs, that no
mans opinions are worth much. There
is wild rush to the place, and the
Spring will see thousands located there.
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success of the Cleveland Administra-
ton in keeping the pension roll down.
In spite of all the show of work in the
Pension Bureau, the great ostentation as
to diligence in examining cases, etc,
the total increase to the rolls during the
year was only 1856. A large part Of
this is the addition in the months after
Col. Evans assumed charge, and infused
more vigor and directness into its opera
tons. There is showing of having
issued 94,454 pension certificates during
the year, but this is a most delusive
presentation. All sorts of articles and
devices were resorted to by the Lochren
regime to make a show of doing business
and granting pensions, and there was a
bewildering exhibit Of "reissues," in
crsases," reservations" ETC., but the fact
remained that pensions were not granted.
Even the report of 50,101 "original
allowances does not tell the truth, be-
cause this was shamefully padded out
by technical juggling.
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The report shows that the average
annual value of each pension at the
close of the year was only s133.17.
This is an important fact which cannot
be made too prominent in discussions
of the pension question. After all the
clamor about enormous pensions-ai
all the labored effort to make it appear
that men and women are living in
luxury upon their quarterly drafts on
the Treasury-the figures show that the
average amount received by each is only
S133.17, or a fraction over S11 a MONTH
That is, men who gave the Govern
ment years of service in the most san
culinary war the world has ever seen,
who were shot TO pieces in battle, who
endured all the hardships of terrible
marches and the vigils of picket duty,
are now in their old age maintaining
life and supporting their families on the
meager allowance of 81 month.
With this they must pay rent, buy food,
clothing, fuel and medicines for them
selves, wives and children. It is all
that hundreds of thousands of them
haze between them and the poorhouse.
To get this small amount they have had
to furnish endless amount of proof of
their services and as to the incurrence
of their disabilities. The evidence they
have been required to furnish has been
more vigorously exact than that which
would send man to the scaffold if he
was on trial for his life. Yet, after all
is said and done, they get an average
OF only 81 month. This in itself is
sufficient answer to the thousands of
columns which are written against the
pension system and pensioners.
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THE Commissioner has not gone into
the discussion Of many questions Of
deep interest to the pensioners because,
doubtless, of the limited part of the year
covered by his administration. He has
gained much valuable knowledge since
then, and we shall look for his future
utterances with eager anticipation
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COMMISSIONER EVANS is opposed to
the reduction Of the pension agencies,
so arrogantly attempted by Cleveland
during the last months Of his Admins
tration, and gives good business reasons
for his opposition.
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THERE are 663 Army Nurses on the
pension-rolls.
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AS to Commissioner Evans's opposi-
ton to giving pensions to women who
marry pensioners late in life there will
be difference Of opinion. The policy
of the Government has always been to
give pensions to this class of women,
down to the passage Of the act of June
q, 1890, which was the first departure
from it. A great many people will in
cline to the opinion that woman who
marries an old soldier, and takes care of
him during his last years, deserves a
pension. The men who passed the pen
sion laws for the survivors Of the Revo-
luton, the War of 1912, the Indian
wars and the Mexican war, were Of this
opinion, and gave these women pensions,
and now the widows of the Revolutionary
soldiers and of those of the War of 1912
are among our most honored pensioners.
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The average annual value of the pen
sions granted under the act Of June o.
1890, is only $109.25, or a triAe over 50
a month.