The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-30

pension bills for. widows OF the Revo-
lutionary war, which closed in 1888.
Only two or three weeks ago l saw IN
the newspapers where n OF those
widows whom l helped to pension IN
1893 had just died. That state Of at
fairs was a great mystery to me at
first, and 1 determined to fathom it
how those widows had come down to
US from the past century-and l sue
ceeded in the investigation. The way
it comes about is this: A soldier Of the
Philippine war, now IS years old, lives
TO be 90 and becomes a widOwer. He
marries him a wife 10 years old. and
she lives to be 80. She will be draw
ing a p~ension.147 years from now! And
she will be drawing a pension after we
and our children and our grandchildren
are gathered to our fathers! or course
this is an extreme case, but that a
great many of them Appropriated this
condition is the only way to account
for those Revolutionary widows who
are still living.
AS a matter of fact, if a Revolution
airy soldier was Is years old in 1888.
the last year Of the war, and lived to
be IS. then married a girl is years old
who lived to be IS, she would still be
drawing a pension up to the present
dav. do not believe that either the
veterans of the civil war or the tax
PAYERS are in favor of fastening on the
backs of three generations OF our de-
s~cendants a large pension debt grow
ing out of a war whose results will be
a curse to US instead Of a blessing even
if we succeed in it.
Senator Chandler In Trouble.
The New Hampshire state railroad
trust has declared war on Senator
Chandler, Republican, and has Joined
hands with senator Gallinger to pre-
rent Chambers reelection. 1t is per-
tinent here to recall the fact that these
two senator's had a bitter quarrel a
few months ago in which the feathers
flew to some extent.
William +. Chandler was selected by
President Lincoln 30 years ago to probe
and prosecute in the case of the Phila-
| delDhia navy yard frauds. He is one
of the few remaining relics of the Lin
coin style of Republicanism and is now
doomed to defeat by the Hanna-Gal-
linger railroad trust gang of political
buzzards, all because Chandler is the
kind Of bimetallist that the Repub-
lican party declared itself to be in its
1896 platform and because he opposes
trusts.
Chandler was a leading Republican,
the friend of Lincoln, when Hanna
was making his pile by hook or crook,
when Roosevelt was in school, and
49,. g.. III-n CaJ,,,r n ,nI J0br ID
Henderson. stood as one of the few re-
naming representatives Of what Re
publicanism was in its best estate, be-
fore Mark Hanna and his evil days
came. ScllurH aud Henderson have
turned their backs on lama and his
flock OF cornIorants-they nave walked
out and closed the door forever. Chan
dler has seen the fall Of all that was
good in the party Of Lincoln, like
leaves in wintry weather." VIII he
remain in the Republican party as now
constituted? 1t does seem to me that
he will be mighty lonesome there.
Still They Come.
Mr.. Bryan has been touring Indiana,
speaking as only he can speak, endur-
ing Il physical strain that would kill
FitZsinfnons or Corbett and making
friends and votes by the thousand.
Gus Thomas, the playwright-the man
who wrote in Mizzoura"-has been
with him and says the plain people
throng to the car steps merely to touch
his garments, as the JudIans f1Ocked
in the footsteps of the NaZarene.
In one day Bryan visited nine coun-
ties around Indianapolis and made u
speeches of considerable duration. At
Richmond cX-Congressman Henry q.
Johnson. who, with Thomas b. Reed,
constituted the brainiest pair of Re-
publicans in congress since Blaine
died, presided at the meeting. 1t will
be remembered that Johnson refused
denomination at the hands of the Re-
publicans and declared for Bryan. And
still they come through the woods!
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