The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-16
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xVAEehNS - Skk&AkS1&Hs The Chattanoga Times fails to under stand the boast of certain Grand Army men that they drcVe Commissioner Evans out of the Pension Department. Il further refuses to believe that Evans was dismissed by the President. because, as it argues, Mir. Evans was appointed to . much more profitable position, and one involving less work and worry. Says The Times:
 If the President permits to go unchal- lenged the affirmation of General Tor rance that he fired" Mir. Evans on the strength of an ex parte report or c. A. R. committee, by that token the Presi- dent will lose standing as man and President. Such a course would cost him ten votes where 1t would gain him one. If the President approves of Com. missioner Wares ripping up and putting out all of Mir. Evans's reform devices. checks upon fraud, etc, and dismissine all of MT. Evans's efficient and courage ous subordinates, such pandering to the spirit of loot, will lose him the election of 1904. in his own State. The Times also wants some informa- ton about "the bouncement of Dr. Raub. :" who. as our readers doubtless remember. was the chief referee on applications for
 disability pensions, and who. as is gen. orally understood. was fired by Commis- sioner Ware because he wasn't complais- ant and easy enough to please the pen- sion- -grabbefs and treasury-looters who procured the dismissal of Evans. In fact, The Times is very much in the position of that character in one of Dickens's novels who was continually turning up in the Circumlocutfon office with-"I want to know. you know" driving the easy going officials to desperation.
 The Times should know that there are various ways of going about an object. If a committee of pension-sharks had gone to Roosevelt and said to him fin plain English: Mir. Roosevelt. Commissioner Evans is against our schemes and you must dismiss him at once." they would
 have failed. Even if the President had been in full sympathy with them. and they were assured of 1t, they knew that
 he was not the kind of man to be manag-
 ed in that way. In plain words, he is
 not the man to be driven, or apparently
 driven, to do even that which he is willing
 to do.
 They went at their work in a more dip-
 lomatic. but none the less effectual, way.
 They opposed and antagonized Commis-
 sioner Evans in every possible way. They
 made his official life a misery to him.
 They let 1t be plainly seen that he was
 offensive to them. They made the Presi-
 dent believe that Evans was an enemy
 to the old soldiers, and they did more.
 They made him believe that if he stood
 by Evans he would be antagonized by the
 Grand Army and all its influence. This
 was the way they drove Evans out and
 this was why the President kicked him
 up stairs, as 1t were.
 The new Commissioner. Eugene Ware,
 has exerted himself to reverse the record
 of Mir. Evans. and has apparently made 1t a point to show his disapproval of the
 course of his predecessor. The removal of pr. Raub was but one of the many straws to show the direction of the wind before which MT. Ware is scudding and if the President has expressed any dis | approval of any act of his appointee we are not aware of 1t. As The Times says There's several lies out, and the country | wants to know who told them.'' Let thu l President show that Judge Torrance ha: Il slandered him, If he can show 1t.