Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-01-25
A CLEVELAND G i

In a debate last Monday in the
House, Cyrus A. Sullowav made a
scathlng speech relative to the way
Grover Cleveland manipulated Civil
Service Reform. 1t was merely a
job TO put Cleveland's friends in
Office for lite and turn the Pension
Bureau Over to the gold Democrats,
Here is an extract from his speech:
Il go to a Department and ask that
the widow of a Union soldier be given
a clerkship; she is competent, a cor
rect accountant and excellent pen
woman. l am refused; there is no
place for this lady, under civil service
in the employ of the Government.
But the widow of General Pickett,
who led the charge against the Union
forces at Gettysburg in resisting
which my constituent husband lell
MORALLY wounded, is an employee in
that Department, blanketed in for life
under civil-service rules.
II go to a Department to solicit a
position for the daughter of a Union
soldier whose father died III his boots
at Spottsylvania, shot through the
body while u%pholding our flag. There
is no place for her, but two daughters
or sisters, l am not certain which,
Of Jackson, who killed Colonel Ellis
worth, are in that Department., on
the pay roll for life.
During Cleveland's Administra-
ton one Colonel Williams, Auditor
for the Interior Department, one day
called up sixteen Union soldiers and
asked them how they voted. They
told him as they fought, for the
Union. He said, Gentleman, YOU
cannot expect us to keep you; we
must care for our own They were
discharged, and, as | am inform ed,
Confederate soldiers took their places.
or the places of most of them. They
are Still there, pensioners for life on
the bounty of a Government they
fought to destroy.
The Pension Bureau TODAY is
honeycombed, crowded with men,
adjusting the claims of Union soldiers
for pensions, who are hostile, some
of whom served III the Confederate
army and shot off the arms and legs
of the claimants and cause the disa-
bllities for which the Government is
asked to allow them a pension.
These men are the judges of wild
ows' claims who husbands they
killed, or who died Of disease con-
tracted from exposure in resisting
their efforts to shoot this Government
out of existence; these are blanketed
in office for life under the merit sys-
tenn and Union soldiers walk the
streets of this capital begging for
employment at times for bread.
You who will may support, sus-
tain, and apologize for and excuse
the outrages perpetrated under this
system. l for one am for the immed-
late and unconditional repeal of the
law, regardless of who favors it or
the position they occupy.
We have plenty of men in this
country who fought under the flag
that floats over the Pension Office
competent to do all that need be done
there by men, and it is both an in
suit and outrage to exclude them and
employ those who brought all the
misery, anguish and voc upon those
who have been and are suffering. and
who burdened the nation with tax of
SI4o, 900, 900 annually for pensions,
which is not more than two-thirds of
what it really ought to be and that
justice demands that it should be.
Nat Goodwin, the actor, is now
separated from his wife by divorce,
and the Court has forbidden him to