Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-04

any investigation of Evans frauds in the
Pension Bureau, because the full exposure
Of the frauds committed by Evans against
claimants and the pension laws would shock
the moral and legal sense Of the Nation.
While this screening and protecting of
Evans from exposure has been going on,
Evans slander machine has been wide
open. A commander of the c. A. R., dur
ing the squelching of Congressman Curtis,
was induced to illuminate" false and
malicious charges against the veterans for
the plain purpose Of supporting Evans
overruhng their oaths, averring that they
were moral wrecks and Evans had 500,
600 copies printed and sent broadcast
throughout the United States, and that
commander-in-c chief was, through the power
of the administration, nominated for Con-
gress unexpectedly, and elected and placed
on the pension committee of the House as
a reward for his treachery against the G. A..
X. Philadelphia resolution, and for his
slandering the veterans in justification of
Evans unlawful refusal to take the oath of
any veteran as an army witness in pension
cases unless supported by an army record
showing the exact disability by name.
The power of Evans backing is limited
only to the full power, influence and pres
tige Of the President and the Hanna syndi-
cate. Without this protection and support
Evans would be mere cipher in the Pen.
sion Office. His influence and acts have all
been for evil. He cannot point to a single
beneficial act during his FIVE years. He
calls this fraudulent career being 'strenu-
GUS" His whole career has been to inter-
rupt the due course Of the law, and conceal
his methods, and denOunce everybody that
raises an objection 10 his fraudulent course.
Take his constant clamor and abuse Of
attorneys. 1t is the cry Of stop thief to
conceal his own frauds against the pension
laws. His constant imputation of fraud
against the veterans, their witness and the
boards of examining surgeons is for the
same unlawful purpose In his last annual
report in making charges against attorneys,
he unwittingiy described his own attitude
towards the business and patrons of the
Office over which he should legally preside
as just and impartial Judge instead of the
calumniator and the sneak-thief and bold
highwayman practices to which he as re-
sorted. He raised a great outcry because
the attorneys came back at him and resented
his abuse and unlawful course. He said:
"One attorney with a large practice supple
mented an impudent letter to the present
Commissioner of Pensions with open let
ters in the newspaper containing false and
scurrilous statements denunciatory of the
present administration and Of the Commits
siouer of Pensions personally. This cor
respondence was next incorporated into a
pamphlet intended for distribution before
Senators and Representatives in Congress
and othe- officials of the Government. He
then a. messed letters to other attorneys to
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tribunal before which he Is allowed to
practice. Such men in their attacks upon
the bureau always pose as the friend of the
soldier but their schemes are not always
for the benefit of the claimants" page Co.
The sides being changed in the phraseology,
that paragraph of his report is an apt de-
scriptiOn Of Evans career in the Office over
which he is allowed" to preside.
Evans career Of fraud in the Pension
Office has not even the palliation Of ignor-
ance although he is a grossly ignorant man
and knows nothing about law, especially
about pension law. He has a more inti-
mate acquaintance with condemned govern
ment mules and wagons, in which he was
dealing and accumulated by penurious
trading and living, what little wealth he
has been able to save in thirty years while
calumniating the veterans at his home in
Tennessee and managing the ex-slave
voters. He has competent lot of clerks
in his room who would and could give him
the law as il exists on the statute books if
he would only signify to them that he
wanted the law instead of "strenuousness
But these clerks duty is to obey and give
him what he wants. Take as an instance
his promoting a medical student from the
medical division to a legal examiner at
81, 900 salary to write up fictitious decision
for rejecting ten thousand Pennsylvania
emergency militia claims against the uni
form ruling Of the Interior Department and
the written opinions of two Attorney-Gen-
erals. See GLOBE Jan. I9, December 81
In this class of ten thousand fraudulent
reflections by Evans order, Secretary
Hitchcock on June 7, 1900, sent Evans the
opinion of the Assistant Attorney General
reafirmiug the uniform practice and over
ruling Evans, but Evans pigeon-holed the
decision in like manner as in the guardian
cases, and refused TO recognize ii because
Evans had purposely in his request for the
opinion Of the Attorney General, forced from
him after rejecting the ten thousand claims
omitted the word emergency" from his
letter, thus causing the Attorney-Geueral
to omit il from his opinion. (See IL P. D.,
page I2.) The only point in the rejection
was the word emergency, which Evans
had his medical student to swing to-" and
this Evans omitted from his request in
order to continue the fraud as long as pos
sible under the pretense that the Attorney
General had not decided il against him.
He continued this fraud until October 81,
1000 when the NJ C.'s of Pennsylvania got
hold of the trick again and brought such
pressure to bear on the Secretary of the In
terror that Assistant Secretary Campbell
was permitted to again decide the case of
Truman Brosius against Evans Campbell,
in that decision, animadverted against
Evans methods of pigeOn-holing decisions
and ignoring them, and accused Evans of
fraud in the matter. (See claim of Brosius,
October 81, 1900
Now Evans has swung back to the identi-
cal principle of law in holding up claims
because the soldier did not serve but little
over ninety days, and therefore Evans pre-
suules that the soldier was not or may not
have been mustered into the service ninety
days before he was discharged. GLOBE
jan 49, This is the same principle of law
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