Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-30
SERIOUS CHARGES
Preferred Against Pension Com.
missioner Evans
BY THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Data and Citations Given to Sustain
Every Accusation.
SOME FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
Terrific Arraignment by the Official
Organ Of G. A. Z.
HOW OLD SOLDIERS FARED.
Adverse Rulings and Evasions OF Law
Frequently Practiced.
Terrific Arraignment by the Official
Organ Of G. A. Z.
HOW OLD SOLDIERS FARED.
Adverse Rulings and EvasiOns OF Law
Frequently Practiced.
TwENTY.sK COUNTS ENUMERATED.

The Methods In Vogue During the
Mckinley Administration In the
Pension Office Have Been In Many
Instances So Notoriously Unfair
That the Superiors of Evans Have
Often Modified and Even Changed
Them-The Chief Executive of the
Nation Went to Philadelphia For
the Purpose of Preventing the Ma
tional Encampment From COndemE-
ing Evans.
There is not an old soldier living
but knows the National Tribune, the
official organ of the G. A. R., published
at Washington 1t is published for and
in the interest of the veterans OF the
civil war.
What it says on the pension ques-
ton is accepted by every old Soldier
as gospel truth. We reprint below an
editorial from its columns printed on
Aug. 81, the last issue of the paper
before the National G. A. r. en-
campment at Philadelphia. Many
old soldiers do not read the National
Tribune, because they can not spare
the price of a subscription from their
meager pensions. but all know what
it is. We publish the editorial below
for them.
a Worse Insult.
II it was an insult to the old soldiers
when Cleveland appointed young
southerner secretary of the interior,
what of it when Mckinley appointed a
southern man commissioner of PEN
sions? Even Cleveland placed a
wounded northern soldier in charge of
the pension bureau.
Notwithstanding this terrible broad
side of the National Tribune, the Ma
tional G. A. R. encampment. took
no action against Evans. Why? Be
cause President Mckinley went to
Philadelphia and made a personal ap-
peal for him. Nothing but the pres
ence of the president saved his COM
missioner from bitter denunc1ation
Why is the president so interested
in cutting off pensions, reducing allow
ances and delaying claims? Easy. He
has a war of his own on hands. The
Philippine war is McKinley's war.
Congress never authorized it. He Is
engaged in an attempt to subdue a
people fighting for independence which
Speaker Reed says is as dear to them
as it is to us This unauthorized wal
is costing millions. and every dollar
taken from the veterans of the sixties
can be turned over to the credit of the
Philippine campaign. President Nc
1AiiiCs hhoNS HiS uliipplhc Wdl 10
unpopular. and that congress will not
willingly vote money to continue 1t.
So he is robbing the soldier of the
civil war to get money to carry on his
own war of subjugation in the Philip
pines
Veterans of the civil war. read what
The National Tribune your official Or
gan, boldly says of the adverse rulings
and evasions of law frequently prac-
ticed by officials of the pension depart
ment. and see for yourselves how the
old soldiers Jared:
The Tribune's Indictment.
LAS this is our last Issue before the
meeting of the national encampment
We recapitulate in succinct form the
indictment that the veterans of the
country and their widows have against
Commissioner Evans. Every count.
in this Indictment is supported by. pos
tive and unbreakable evidence that
would infallibly convict him before
any jury and in any court in the coun-
try. We cite with each count the
evidence in support of it. which the
reader can eXamir and verify for him
self. p. D. ref ,rs to pension deci-
sions made by Assistant Secretary of
the Interior Webster Davis, and which
IAN be found in many lawyers offices
or obtained oy application at the ir-
terror department. 1t is an. official
publication, and therefore public in
formation:
FIRST COUNT.
"Among his first official acts OF Inn
portance was one which in effect re-
quired that all completed increase
claims under the general law. based on
disability not covered by the pension
certificate, be sent to the special ex.
animation division for investigation,
course which was equivalent to bury
ing these claims for from one to three