Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-11


Evans TO S25,ooo Office is out of considera-
tion for Evans merits and influence, or the
influence Of his state which has not cast
Republican electral vote in thirty years,
and will not cast one in the next forty
yearsl Evans, an iguoramus, is given the
best paying Office in the Government, better
than the salary of the President expenses
being considered Evans who has no in
huence even in his own state of Tennessee.
The Republican organization there sat down
on him two years ago and he bolted because
he could not rule. He brought little bolt
ing cabal of followers to the Republican
National Convention which nominated
Roosevelt two years ago at Philadelphia,
and that convention turned down him and
his squad and admitted the regular dele
gates. Evans is absolutely without indu-
ence prestige learning, ability or official
honesty He is a vulgar mountebank. What
then has brought to him this magnificent
gift Of an Office the best in the land7 There
is not a man in the United States, who has
watched the administration and the PEN
sions, so blind as not to be able to answer
the question of hand. II is a stinging and
resounding slap in the face of the veterans
for daring to ask Evans removal and ques-
tion the pension policy of the administra-
ton. By championing Evans frauds, the
Hanna anti.pension syndicate propose to
down the veterans, and whitewash them
selves
The President and Hanna believe that no
veterans can be iusulted enough to cause
them to resent the insult at the polls. The
anti-pension syndicate consented to the re-
moval (resignationl) of Evans after Ave
years of Evans frauds and of remOnstrance
of the 6. A. X. against Evans. All of these
frauds are better known TO the President
and to the syndicate than their prayer
books. They are perfectly familiar with
these frauds, because they themselves or
dered them and sustained them. They
have also been reading the GLOBE for the
past six months where many of these
frauds have been exposed in detail and the
books cited. They have never dared to try
to refute a single one of these exposures,
for the plain reason that they could not.
These frauds stand of record, and can not
be disproved They have been used for un-
lawfully defrauding the veterans out of FIVE
millions Of dollars appropriated by Congress
each year for pension payments while (dur-
ing all that time) 100000 claims have been
on the files awaiting allowance denied and
withheld unlawfully.
After four months Of this weekly exposure
by the GLOBE right under the nose of the
President aud the Hanna syndicate, Evans
resignation (2) was called for on March IS.
After about two more months exposure of
the President and the Hanna syndicate,
this princely gift Of an Office was bestowed
on the toadstool Evans as a whitewash of
the Hanna anti-pension syndicate by ap-
proving Evans frauds ordered by the gang.
Had the GLOBE rested at exposing Evans
without exposing the Republican gang in
and out of Congress, Evans would have
been merely laid on the shelf; but in as
much as the completely OF the whole Re
publican gang was shown up, something
further was determined upon in retaliation
for the temerity of the G. A. K. in daring
10 raise such questions
No other paper in the United States has
ever been outside of party influence suffi-
ciently to make these exposures Every
newspaper IN the land is shut up against
the veterans tighter than clam, on such
questions, and held down out of sound and
sight as closely as Congressman Curtis
resolution to investigate Evans frauds
against the pension laws was sealed up by
Congress.
If Evans had any defense to these ex-
pOsures do you suppose that Evans and the
Hanna syndicate would have remained
silent all these six months, while the GLOBE
has opened and exposed the books to them
and the public, right under their nose.
They command every newspaper in the
land.
It is plain that Evans owns his promotion
to the GLOBE Had the GLOBE remained
silent, he would have had to return to Ten
oetH tab I,fu
of trading in condemned government mules.
Instead Of that he has been given without
expense the munifceut Office, yielding five
times the salary which he got as Pension
Commissioner, and yielding a greater net
income than the Office of President.
There is really no expense of consequence
in the way of social functions, or above
mere plain boarding house bills to pay.
The GLOBE by exposures put the gang on
their defense and this is their only defense
to the grave exposures.
In carrying out the plan of the Hanna
anti.pension syndicate for reducing pension
appropriations uulawfully instead of re-
pealng or changing the laws openly through
Congress, mentioned in the GLOBE Of April
y and November a, all the devices, de-
tails and frauds necessary to unlawfully
suppress large blocks of the pension laws,
were left to Commissioners Evans to origi-
nate through the aid Of his sycophant ex-
perts in the Commissioners room and in the
rooms of the medical referee. Strong op-
position had to be silenced. and to aid in
silencing opposition within and outside of
Congress- Evans resorted to slandering the
pension laws, libeling the veterans and
every body connected with pensions in any
remote way. Evans resOrted to bold lying
in the newspapers, and in his annual re-
ports, as justifying his frauds and to scare
out the timid.
He began on law Of widows and minors
and at end Of first year he, in his reports
began asking a secret commission to revise
the pension laws behind closed doors. IRE
port 1888. p. 49, We know now what he
would have got out of a commission ap-
pointed by the Hanna anti-pension syndi-
te. All his schemes which have been
orerruled would have gone in the statute.
He did not introduce any proposed changes
by bill in Congress At one time il looked
as though the revision scheme was 10 go
through with that false G. A. r. pension