The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-03
OMNIBUS.
The Feeling Against the Ad-
ministratiOn In Ohio
BY the Old Soldiers Growing
Very Bitter.
SENSELESS RED TAPE.
Causes a Committee of Veterans
to Issue an Address.
Are Strong Republicans But
Declare as a Rebukeo
Soldier Republicans Must Vote
For Mclean.

sion Commissioner Evans is admins
tering the affairs of the pension depart
ment has taken visible form Today
Washington G. Marshall, a brave ex-
soldier of both the volunteer and the
regular forces in the war of the re-
bellion, as chairman of the prudential
committee, recently appointed by the
veterans who protest against Pension
Commissioner Evans, issued an address
to the soldiers of Ohio.
Mr.. Marshall is known to most Of the
soldiers who have attended the state
encampments of veterans for the last
20 years. He entered the Sixtieth 0.
v. I. when under II years of age and
was mustered out with his regiment in
1865.
In 1869 he enlisted and served four
years with the Fourth United States
cavalry under General r. S. Mckenzie,
the noted Indian fighter. He was dis
charged in 1873 on account of a diSabil1-
ty incurred in the line of duty. He is
81 years old, has two soldiers dis
charges, both marked character good.
He has always been a stanch Republi-
can, and was born and raised near Cam
bridge, Guernsey county.
He comes of revolutionary stock as
his Christian and surname indicate. His
great grandfather fought at Brandy
wine, Trenton and Yorktown, under
Washington. Mr.. Marshall is terribly
broken in health, and has been wrong
fully treated by President McKinley's
pension department
columbus, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1899.
ITO the ex-Soldiers and Sailors of
Ohio in the War of 18G1-1S65-Com-
rades: Owing TO the injustice and
cruelty of President McKinley's adj
ministration, through his pension COM
missioner, Evans, to the Union veterans
their widows and orphans, there was
organized here a few weeks since q
prudential committee of ex-soldiers
who had been wronged and Inundated
by the present powers that be in Wash
ington, and I was selected as its chair
man. The committee has opened
bureau at No. 1882 South Front street,
Columbus, Ohio, where all communica-
tons can be addressed to me.
MANY HAVE BEEN WRONGED.
/ Hundreds of veterans have already
| written to me, detailing their wrongs,
| and almost every one of them has signi-
/ ned his intention to make President
4 Mckinley and Commissioner Evans
suffer politically for the most inhuman
and dastardly course pursued toward
the old and infirm ex-soldiers and sail
ors who have been turned down and
made to suffer in their old age. The
feeling among the veterans who have
hitherto been Republicans is more in
tense against President McKfnley's ad-
ministration, if possible, than among
the Democratic comrades. The con-
sensus of opinion is to vote next No
Vember so as to rebuke the president
and his tension commissioner and
thereby indicate to them that if they
do not change their policy to the vet
Grams they may expect next year to be
voted out of power.
This is the opinion of the prudential
committee, and seems the only proper
/ course in order to reach and condemn
AIessrs. Mckinley and Evans, by the
defeat this fall for governor of Judge
Nash, the mOuthpiece and indorser of
whatever the president and his pension
commissioner do. This the ex-sOldiers
can easily accomplish by voting for Nc
Lean.
DECISIVE ACTION NECESSARY.
Pension Commissioner Evans cruel
ana unjust treatment Of the Union vet
Grams of the war of 1S61-1S65, approved
and Endorsed by President Mckinley
and his administration, sanctioned by
senator hanna and Judge Nash, the
Republican candidate for governor
calls for decisive action upon the part
OF the ex-soldiers who fought for their
nag and country in the late civil war.
Why did the G. A r encampment
at Philadelphia take no action to con-
denim Pension Commissioner Evans,
but whitewashed his administration?
Because President Mckinley went to
the encampnent, and made a personal an
1 peal for Evans, and nothing but Mr.. Nc
! klnleyS presence saved his commission
/ er from bitter denunciation.
why is the president interested in cut
I delaying claims?
Because he has a war of his own on
/ hand in the Philippines. It is a Mckinley
/ war, and was never authorized by con
| In an attempt to subdue people fighting
/ Tor their Independence, as dear to them
! ish ~ = 'iii 'i1e 2
/ This unauthorized war is costing mil
! mons ana every dollar that is taken from
| the Union veterans of 1S61-1S65 can be
| turned over to the credit of the Philip
1 pine campaign Mr.. Mckinley knows that
the Philippine war is unpopular and that
] TINS congress is unwilling to vote money
/ for its continuance Therefore with the
eonntvance of Pension Commissioner
/ Evans ne is robbing the veterans of the
/ late civil war to get money to carry on
his own war of subjugation in the Phil
| ippines.
! VETERANS ARE INDIGNANT
| The adverse rulings and evasions of
/ law by Pension Commissioner Evans
sanctioned by President Mckinley. in
| QOrSed by Hanna. and approved by Judge
] Nash, are arOusing UNIVERSAL indignation
among our old comrades, now in old age
and needing the fostering care of the gov
| eminent, instead of having the Mckinley
administration turning its back on them
| their widows and children.
/ The National Tribune, published at
| w as h1ngtOn, and the official organ of the
| @. A r. a paper printed solely in the in
terestS OF the eX-sOldiers and sailors, in
| its latest issue prints Indictment of
| 26 counts against President Mckinley S
| administration and his pension commits
| sioners conduct in office, showing the
| proof of how by infamous decisions IN
| just rulings, cruel evaSions. base con-
| structions of law and petty technfcali-
ties 10000 union soldiers. their widows
| and orphans were in the past fiscal year
| denied pensions or increases of pensions
I THE requiring of widows to prove their
| chastity since the death of their soldier
| husbands is one of the most cOntemDtfbIe
regime, and is only equaled by their rul-
| ing that any widow having an annual
/ income of S96 ought with her family to
| live and is not entitled to a pension Not
and valid claims awaiting settlement for
| many years, the president and pension