The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11
Private Dalzell, John Cook, and
Robert Sims,
THE PROMOTION OF DALzELL
His Merit al Last Discovered - Cook Re-
duCsd for Earning a Medal Of Honor and
Sims Put Sweeping Tho SIdewaIk-Thus
is Rewarded The Soldiers OF The Union
Under The Mckinley Administration.

Among the list of promotions an
pounced by the War Department the
past week was that Of James Dalzell
COhio), $1,000. Here ye! people Of
the Buckeye State, Private Dalzell has
been promoted Sound the hurdy
gurdy and beat the tom tom, or vice
versa, anything and everything, so
that every old soldier from the lakes
to the river, and every voting Repub-
bican along the Western Reserve
knows it instanter. But tell it not in
Gath, nor whisper it in Bersheba, that
the Sunday Globe expose had anything
to do with it, for it didn't Private
Dalzell was promoted on merit! After
clerking two or three years under the
probosis Of the President, who had for
gotten his very existence, without rec
ognition or promotion, it has been sud
denly discovered that Private Dalzell
has merit! Actually; just think Of it!
Dalzell a meritorious $1,000 clerk!
This is for Ohio consumption, gentle
Washingtonian, and you are not ex-
pected to understand the sarcasm. The
Buckeye will have a fit in his native
hills when he hears that it took three
years in Washington for the Govern
ment to discover that Private Dal2ell
had merit What-the great, the fiery
Dalzell, the backbone, the vermifOrm
appendix and the liver and lights Of
the G. O. p. of the Buckeye State. The
man whose clarion blasts were heard
along the Reserve before Mckinley won
his first case in a Canton police court!
He working for $1,000 per annum as
a Government clerk, and shat a recent
promotion and a recent discovery that
he had merit! Whew but this will
make votes for Nash among the old sol
diers next November, When it is an
nounced from the stump that Private
Dalzell has not only been given a Gov
ernment clerkship but after three
years of seryitude actually promoted
| to 81 900, and the discovery made that
| he has merit. OF course he has or he
| would not be promoted. Are not all
| promotions under this Administration
based on merit, especially the promo
tions of old soldiers?
Here are only a few cases Of the
many hundreds we know and which we
would like a pass from Governor Nash
| to tell the old soldiers from the stump
this fall. We do not mean a railway
pass-but his gracious permission to
enter the State!
Take John Cooke, for instance, Of the
Union Building, Government Print
! ing Office. Cook wears a medal Of
! honor, won at Aantietam and Gettys-
burg. Cook had a position paying him
! 81 600 per annum when William Nc
! Kinley became President. Cooks pres.
ent salary is $500 less per annum, How
! did this come about? A friend of the
/ President, who is well fixed financial
ly, saw Cooks place and coveted. Cook
was only an old soldier with record.
This man went to the President and
Cortelyou did the rest. Cook was re-
duced and the Presidents friend given
his place. Even at present Cook is
getting less per annum than any other
laborer in the Union Building, and it
is admitted by even Glue Pot Smythe
that Cook does two mems work, He
is the hardest worker in the building" +"
is ais record, "and never missed a
day"
Take Sims-Robert Sims, Of the Pa.
tent Office. He is one Of eight labor
ers. The other seven receive So or $40
per month more than Sims. Why?
Simply because Sims, as an educated
old soldier, is competent to fill any rea.
sonable clerical position, and because
he is an old soldier. Sims is one Of
four white laborers; the other four
are colored men. Nevertheless, Sims
alone is given the hardest and most
degrading assignment of the laboring
work We have seen him sweep the
sidewalks all around the Patent Office
in the hot sun, and the big steps of the
building, and work until near noon as
hard as a man can work in the tOrrid
weather Washington has experienced
this summer Sims, unlike Laborer
Evans, who is a brother Of Chief
Evans, has to work in the hot sun day
after day while the brother of the
clerk lallygags inside and fans himself
into bissful rest. Why Sims receives
So per month less than even the color
ed laboTers is simply because Sims has
distinguished himself in a call for vol
unteers for extra hazardous service,
A pontoon was to be laid, but the en-.
emy had the range Of the river, and
no living thing could exist under the
guns Of the foe, A call for volunteers
brought Sims to the front, and in the
face of the deadly fire he and few
other choice spirits laid the pOntoon.
Therefore, Sims must sweep the side.
walk in front and rear at the sides
and on the steps, in the hot sun, while
Evans dozes in the shade, and the col.
ored laborers fill nice easy jobs on the
inside.
In the afternoons, however, Sims
gets a rest He is then assigned to
waiting on several influential danes,
who make It interesting for him OF
course. he Is not paid S. or SO per
month less than the other seven labor.
ers to be sensitive. He has no sensi
bilities that these DANES are bound to
respect A boy bugler, who fought his
battery at Gettysburg when the men
cannOners lay dead or dying under the
guns, or the youth who laid the pom
toon at Fredericksburg have no patriot
ic right to sensibilities or recollec
tions Both would be maddening uu
der their present circumstances, hence
it Is wise to suppress the feelings ant
patriotic fsryOr with which they de
family answered the yell of the enemy
with cheers and grape and canister
Such thoughts are out Of place now
The old soldier is glad enough, like
DalzeH, to have his merit recognized
after three years neglect, or like Cook
doing two mems work for less salary
than his fellow-workmen receive, or
like Sims, doing the heavy chores fol
81 less thnI the formar slnNa or son nj