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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-09-16
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-09-16

This house
is backed by
forty Cd d
years of mer-
chan dising
with many of
You and your
neighbors. Ii
is a proud re-
cord, and
where an inn
proven ent
can be made
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
THE .ytRf.

Comrades, remember that this is now the
jury before whom we must file all evidence
that we have regarding the administration
of the Pension Bureau by Henry CLAY
Evans:
Col. r. b. BROWN, GAINESVILLE. o. All
communications, etc, from Ohio, West
Virginia, Indiana and Michigan
COL. ii. Il. CASE, Chattanooga, Tenn
All communications from comrades
residing south of the Potomac and Ohio
Rivers.
CoMRADE CHAS. CLARK ADAMS. 111
Water street, Boston, Mass All com.
munications from comrades in the New
England States.
GEN. JOHN PALMER, Albany, Ny All
communications from comrades in New
York, New Jersey, Delaware, PennsyI-
vania, and Maryland.
Col. JOHN W. BURST, Sycamore, Ill. All
communications from comrades in Hi
nolS, Wisconsin, and the country west
of the Mississippi
Upon the representations of these five
comrades 10 the President, and their report
TO the National Encampment, will depend
whether Henry Clay Evans is retained and
the present odious policy Of the Pension
Bureau continued. Present your evidence
TO them, comrades.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
HOW HE SPENDS HIS EVENINGS.

The Washington correspondent of a
leading paper, which has been quite venom
GUS in its structures on the veterans, said to
prominent GAR. comrade recently:
20, yes, you see halo about everything
connected with the old veterans, but we get
good opportunity to learn quite another
phase. You see, the Commissioner of Pen
sions spends much Of his evenings down on
Newspaper Row, among the correspondents,
and he furnishes us with great deal of
matter showing up the real character of the
veterans, and he has the papers and cases;
to prove all that he says"
The name Of this correspondent and of
his paper can be given, if necessary.
Here is charming picture for the COM
rades to contemplate: the Commissioner of
Pensions nightly haunting Newspaper
Row to disseminate ISLANDERS against them
as a class
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
DEMAND EyANs,s REMOVAL.

The most important event of the past
week was the sending to President Nc
Kinley of a memorial requesting Com
missioner Evans's removal, and which
was signed by Senator Lucien Baker, of
Kansas; five members of Congress from
that te-Representatives Curtis, Bow
ersock, Miller, and Calderhead. This
was supplemented by similar request
from o. III. Coulter, Commander Of the
Department of Kansas, GA. r., and which
was indorsed by Republican editors and
veterans in all sections of the State. 1t
was the most unanimous expression that
ever emanated from the State.
The documents were sent to Commander
Joseph w. Kay, of the Department of New
York, who made special journey to Platts-
burg to deliver them in person to the Presi-
dent
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

They tried to obey. but an instant later
all leaped TO their feet, as n voiley of mule
screeches mixed with human oaths and
imprecationS came up from Reighboring
rav1ne.
There! There's the rebels, sure
enough" they CALCULATED dropping their
coffee and meat and rushing for their
guns.
Come back and set down. and finish
your breakfast" shouted ST. That ain I
no rebels. That's only the usual family
row over the breakfast table between the
mules and the teamSters."
Mules is kickin' because the teamsters
don't wash their hands and put OF. white
aprons when they come to wait on 'em,
suggested Shorty.
The boys looked at him in anna iement,
that he should Jest at such a moB.eHtous
time.
There's the assembly now," said 81, as
the first streak of dawn on the mountain
top was greeted by the bugler at the 2Ooth
Ind s Headquarters, filling the chill air
with stirring notes.
Put OF your things. Don't be in a
hurry. Put on everything Just right SOS
it won't fret or chafe you during the march.
You'll save time by takin' time now"
He inspected the boys carefully as it grew
lighter. showed them how to adjust their
blanket-rolls and canteens and heavy hayer-
sacks so as to carry to the best advantage,
| examined their guns. and saw that each
had his full allowance of cartridges.
Here comes meat for the rebel cavalry,
shouted one of the older members Of the
company, as 81 brought his squad up to
take its place on the left of Co Q.
Il wouldn't say much about rebel cav
airy, if l was you, Wolf Greenleaf," ST ad-
monished the joker. "Who was it down in
Kentucky that was afraid to shoot at a
rebel cavalryman, for fear it would make
him mad, and he might do something"
The laugh that followed this old-time
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
ONE OF HENRY CLAY EvANs's FAVOR.
ITFS

We should be exceedingly harsh and
ample, and brand the whole body of Special
Examiners of the Pension Bureau as of the
type of the one who is now in Jail i'll Wash
ington awaiting punishment for the brutal
murder of little girl, accompanied with
details of peculiar and revolving foulness.
Yet if the miscreant had been a pensioner
or a pension attorney, Mr.. Evans would
have made the country ring with it as a
fair specimen of the classes with whom he
has TO deal.
Mr.. Evans can not escape just criticism
for this man,-Benjamin Snell,-whose
atrocity has shocked the whole country.
1t was at first stated that Smell was born in
Vermont. This seems not to be true, but
that he was born in Georgia. where his
parents and brothers and sisters still reside
He was brought up in that section, and
was one of the Hoke Smith crowd 1t does
not appear whether he was in the rebel
army, but in all probability he was. AT
all events, he was appointed in the Pension
Bureau, and rapidly promoted, while
Union veterans and their widows were being
reduced or turned out This was not at all
because of his superiority as a clerk. The
general consensus of opinion among those
who worked with him is that he was de-
cidedly inferior as a clerk. Besides, his
personal appearance was unprepossessng,
and his manners and conversation dis
pleasing. His reputation was exceedingly
bad. He was openly accused of nameless
practices, and he was a frequenter of low
doggeries and participant in their drunken
veterans and their widows, and faithful
executant of any scheme against them
and their pensions. There seems to be
nothing else to account for the remarkable
favor he enjoyed from Commissioners
Lochren and Evans, and his assignment
TO the coveted and lucrative position of
Special Examiner, where far better clerks
than he, far better men and Union veterans
of honorable record, were reduced or dis
charged.
If Mr.. Evans exercises anything like the
espionage upon his clerks that he does
upon veterans and their widows he must
have known all about this mans utter
vileness from the day he entered Office
Yet he kept him and signally favored him.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
EVANS MUST GO.
The Following Resolutions We're Unanimously Adopted BY
the Post Named.

The Following Resolutions We're Unanimously Adopted BY
the Post Named.
HEADQUARTERS JOHN F. RUCkLEPoST,
165, GA R., DEPARTMENT OF 1NDI-
ANA, INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Aug. 3, 1889.
Whereas at the Department Of Indiana
Encampment, held at Columbus, Ind, in
1898, and reafiirmed at Terre Haute, Ind,
in 1899, by the same body, resolution was
adopted relating in part to the administra-
ton of the Pension Department, whereby
many just claims of veterans are being long
delayed or are unjustly rejected altogether,
which resolution mildly protested against
some Objectionable methods practiced by
said administration, and recommending
more liberal construction and a more rigid
execution Of the Pension laws. as they exist,
readily and equitably adjudicated; andi
further,
That any Commissioner of Pensions who
should prove recreant 10 said laws, or whose
acts should be inimical to the veterans,
interest, should not be retained In said
Office; and
Whereas a general complaint continues
throughout the country of such abuses and
others more intensified, demanding a
speedy change which shall guarantee q
more equitable administration Of the Pen.
sion Department.: Therefore, be it
Resolued by John F. Ruckle Post, in
Post assembled, That we hereby denounce,
in unqualified terms, the unjustifiable
methods now practiced by the United
States Pension Bureau, which results I'm the
most unjust treatment Of the veterans and
heroes of the civil war, and of their widows
and orphans, and that we earnestly request
of Comrade William Mckinley, President
of the United States, the immediate removal
of 81. Clay Evans from the Office of Com
missioner of Pensions.
Signed, JOHN h. KILIE, Commander.
JAMES KING, Adjutant.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
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The National tribune., 1899-08-24
UNDER MIR. EyANss ORDERS,

No claim carrying any considerable
amount of arrears is admitted until every
conceivable pretext for delay has been
resorted TO, and in the majority of instances
Evans is not the soldiers friend, reflections
number thousands and admissions hun.
dfeds, SO that one of the largest sections
in the Office is the Rejected Letter Section
of the Board Of Review. This body Of
clerks do nothing but write letters to attor-
neys and claimants in rejected cases. This
section was unknown until Evans had
been in Office year.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

IT Is very significant feature that in
spite of the advancing age and increasing
disabilities Of the veterans, the average
annual value Of the pensions is being
steadily reduced. Under Gen. Harrison's
Administration the annual average value
Of the pensions under the act of June %,
1880, was s116.20. Lochren reduced it To
s1o9,29. Last year Evans got it down to
S1oS.i1. Remember that, with fewer pen
sions on the roll, this means general
reduction Of allowance to every pensioner,
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
HE MAKES HIS OWN RULES.

Mr.. Evans told the National GAR.
Pension Committee that he was prevented
by the Departmental rules" from doing
many things that he wanted to do, and
that these rules should be blamed, not he.
He has had his literary bureau repeat this
statement through the press. If it were
true, then he was accusing his official
superior, the Secretary of the Interior. and
was guilty of insubordination. But, like
most of Mr.. Evans's pleas, it is untrue.
While, theoretically and officially, all the
rules and regulations Of the Departments
are the orders of the Secretaries at the head,
they are practically and actually the work
of the Commissioners of the different Bu-
reaus. For example, the Interior Depart
ment consists of the Bureaus of Patents,
Pensions. General Land Office, Indian
Affairs, Education, Railroads, Geological
Survey, and Census. At the head of each
of these eight subdivisions is a Commits
sioner, who is supposed to be an expert in
his particular branch, and to devote himself
to the study of its needs and requirements.
He prepares and issues rules for the govern
ment Of his special Bureau. He signs
these rules himself. They are presented
to the Secretary for approval, but this is
usually the merest formality. The Secre-
tary can have only the most general knowl-
edge Of the widely varying functions of the
different Bureaus. His duty is simply to
indicate general policy, and hear the
appeals from the acts of his subordinates.
The rules under which the Pension
Bureau is running are largely contained
in a book issued from the Government
Printing Office, which has on it's first page
the following note:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 8, 1898.
SIR: l have approved. and return here
with, the Treatise or the Practice of the
Pension Bureau, which was submitted by
you personally for my consideration.
Very respectfully G. n. BLISS,
Secretary.
The Commissioner of Pensions
matter is signed: "H. Clay Evans. Com
missioner"
That was over year ago. Since then
Mr.. Evans has issued a host of rules, each
one more stringent than its predecessor,
and which he has not taken the trouble
to present to the Secretary for approval.
The Secretary once called his attention to
this breach of official decorum in sharp
note, but still there has not been rule pre-
sented to the Secretary for more than six
months, while every one connected with
the Bureau knows that there have been
a multitude issued, both written and verbal.
1t is the latter which are the most dangerous,
for they breathe the Commissioners spirit
of enmity to every pensioner, and influence
the clerks by words that he would not dare
put on paper.
The character and animus Of the Com
missioner are the main trouble-not the
rules -
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.

Another candidate for Commander-in
Chief has been presented to the attention OF
the comrades. The Department of Mis-
souri, solicits the honor for Past Department
Commander Leo Raisseur. This is not un
expected. Ithas been known for years that
the Missouri comrades were anxious fol
Comrade Raisseur's election to that high
Office, and that they were only waiting the
ripeness of time to bring him out. They
have seemingly come to the conclusion that
this is their year.
Comrade Raisseur was born in Germany
in 1914, and brought by his parents to this
country when an infant. When but II
years old he was selected as the spokesman
of a band of Union Germans in ST. Louis
who were opposed to the secession move
ment, and he attempted to present their
views at a public meeting called to consider
the political situation" But the rebels
dominated the meeting, and would not lei
him speak, when he and his friends with
drew, organized a meeting in another place,
and expressed their Union sentiments. He
enlisted at once in one of the regiments
formed, and served through the war, COM
ing out in 1865 as Major of the Both Mo,
and having held every grade below that
rank. He is a member of Frank p. Blair
Post of st. Louis, and has been a tireless
worker in the GAR. He was Department
Commander in 1891, and Judge-Advocate-
General under Commander-in-Chief Adams.
He is fine lawyer, a forceful speaker, and
has occupied scat on the bench in Missouri
with the greatest credit
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

GEN. PANDo says that he and his fellow
Generals begged their Government for one
month more OF war. We could then have
dictated peace to the United States" There
are many Of US who keenly regret that the
alleged request of the Spanish Generals
was not granted. One month more Of war
would have given us not only the Carolines
and Ladrones, but the Canary and Ba-
learic Islands, and the stronghold of
Ceuta, on the Mediterranean. The war
ended a month too soon.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

INFORMATION, direct from the White
House is to the effect that number of
prominent Ohio Republicans have informed
the President that unless Evans is removed
there will be great doubt about carrying
the State this Fall. They say that they
have never seen the veterans and their
sons and sons-in-la SO incensed as they
are now by Evans's rasping "smartness"
and incessant nagging. Similar repre-
sentations have been made from other
great States in the interior
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

THE Supreme Court ought to be at once
convened to review the decision Of a Chi
cago Judge that woman is insane be
cause she punctured her husbands tire
with hatpin in order to keep him at home
This attacks the very foundation of on,
liberties. If the husband and wife are one
person, why has she not the right to pune
ture her own tire if she wants to?
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
No matter what Mr.. Evans NAV 81

No matter what Mr.. Evans may say
publicly, his private instructions to the
clerks in the Office are to the effect that no
claim shall receive attention inside of two
years after its filing, unless it is called I'D
by some Senator, Representative, or other
person Of influence. The chances are
very great that the claimant will either die
before his claim is reached, or during the
tedious circumlocution that is then insti-
tuted under the pretext of examining the
evidence and calling for further proof.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
The First p., Of I'll. AiI.u.. c..p.Isa.

As usual, it seemed to the boys Of the
20Oth Ind. that they had only lain down
when the bugle blew the reveiile on the
morningof May 3, 1854.
The vigilant Orderiy-Sergeant was at
once on his feet, rousing the other mon
CONS" to get the men up.
ST and Shorty rose promptly, and. ex-
perienced campaigners as they were, were
in moment ready to march anywhere or
do anything as long as their rations and
their cartridges held out.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

This is a very gratifying showing. 1t is
particularly complimentary to the material
Of which the regiments were composed that
only two men deserted out of the 1st Neb. IS
1915, and not one out OF the 10th Pa s S76.
The healthfulness of the climate of the
Philippines, the excellence of medical at
tation are all abundantly testified to by the
fact that the 1st Neb. only lost 25 by dis
ease, and the 10th Pa. but one officer and six
men.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
FREE TICKETS
TO THE ENCAMPrIENT

We have arranged to give free tickets,
round trip, to the National Encampment as
premiums for clubs Of yearly subscribers to
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
We append below list Of places, with the
each, which viii be required to secure the
respective round trip tickets:
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
once: sss Pennsylvania Avenue n. W.
NATIONAL TRIBUNE HEADQUARTERS
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.

NATIONAL TRIBUNE HEADQUARTERS
The Headquarters of The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE at the National Encampmeni
will be at Parlor %, Continental Hotel.
All veterans, with their wives and fami,
lies, are cordially invited TO call on us there.
They are invited to make appointments to
meet their comrades and acquaintance,
and have their mail, etc., sent there. This
will be great convenience TO them in the
immense crowd that will attend the National
Encampment.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

ST and Shorty return to their regiment,
which they find encamped on the side Of
Mission Ridge, near Chattanooga. They
We're ordered to bring with them a batch Of
boyish recruits, whom they succeed in
getting through, after some lively ex-
periences on the road. The recruits are
divided up among the companies-Co. Q
receiving seven.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

THINK of having for Commissioner of
Pensions man who regards every veteran
as greedy, cunning impostor, and every
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

COMMISSIONER EvANS'S rule in the
Pension Bureau is initiated from that of
the Southern slave drivers. Not one of
the men and women under him dare say
his or her soul is his or her own. 1t is a
tyranny hitherto unknown i'll any Depart
ment or Bureau in Washington
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

STOP taking about 10, the poor Indian" "
Many of the tribes are the richest per capita
Of any people in the country.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
THE OFFICIAL REPORT.

Gen. Shafter gives an interesting official
report of the strength and casualties of the
two regiments just returned from the Philip
pines.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY expects to be
at the National Encampment Sept. S.
The National tribune., 1899-08-24
SYNOPSIS.

Copyright, 1899 by Publishers OF THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE)
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-11
ANSWERS To QUESTIONS.

A letter from Idaho speaks o. sect
which lays great stress on Romans
XVI, 10 ana Peter Y. ~, ana also on
the ordinance ~ tho washing N feet.
and claims that the I.ntler-day saints
40 not follow tine Gospel In tho partlcu-
lars mentioned The "NcwH" IL no..
luestod 10 explain. The salutation sug.
gested In the tcxts quoted above,
Greet each other with holy kiss"
VAS merely a custom ~ the people and
the period In those early times. II was
not n commandment nor part Of the
Gospel, but like many Incidental re-
marks, made by the Apostles In tho let
lers which they Wrote ana which have
been preserved. had reference entirely
20 the people To whom they were writ
len. Such as / Tim. " %. II Tim. ~,
49, ! Cor. vi, a. The Mnors salute
snch other by rubbing noses The Ell
iefs may have TO conform to this GUS
tom when among them. The French
siss each other ON both checks. Amorl-
sans shake hands when they meet or
part. Any friendly salutation II proper
among brethren, but promiscuous kiss
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-11

~ military enterprise. the attempt
Of the filipinOa TO capture the city OF
Manila was most foolhardy and was
foredo0med 10 failure. Gen. Otis has
under his command nearly 10000 men
ne for duty. while Dcweys fleet In the
hnrhor renders II impossible for the
natives 20 hold the city even could
they capture t. Yet II appears that the
attack was fairly resoluto. Tor the num-
her OF dead ana wounded on the Aner-
team side amounted to about i1b men.
Tho plan Of the battle seems 10 have
been simple. the Filipinos attempting
Ia rush the American lines that
stretched around the suburbs OF the
city while our troops, resisting sue.
lnaioting probably heavy Losses upon
their arHailnnts The use Of two war
shipn In Smelling the Filipino lines was
efficient and timely. There II not the
slightest doubt ~ To Con. Otis'E ability
90 hold the city, Notwithstanding that
the Fillpinoa ARE supposed 10 have an
army OF some $4,000 men. The latter
must be armed In an inferior manner
Indeed. the dispatches rofor 10 one ma
tive force that fought with bows and
airowal achievements now on the
way 20 Manila will swell the American
army by some G.OOO men In pitched
battles the issue between forces so Inn
mensely different In discipline aud
equipment can never be doubtful. The
Filiplnos have no more chance In a
stand-up tight than the Dervlshea had
against the British Maxim guns at
omdurman.