The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
LEaACIEs FROM HANNA.
He Has Handicapped Roosevelt and
His Party.

chicago tribune (Rep.)
Many sincere friends of the admins
tration have wondered at the dismissal of
Mr.. Evans from the office of Commits
sioner of Pensions. While something
equally good was given to him, there
ia no Disgusting the fact that he was dis
missed. He was turned out for excessive
honesty and fidelity to duty. and his case
Is almost the only one on record in which
an officer has been punished for doing his
duty with infiexible integrity. tact, dis
whether he was Kicked upstairs" or
not. He was kicked. And he didn't de-
serve 1t. Many people are wondering how
President Roosevelt with his stern sense
of duty and his upright character could
| reconcile 1t to his conscience to let Mr..
Evans go. If President Roosevelt had
been in the Pension offic" himself he
would have been more irreconcilable than
Evans-less acceptable to the professional
'old soldiers' and the pension shysters
than he was, and more tumuitous and ir-
repressible In every respect. Manifestly
the dismissal of Evans Is a legacy from
the Mckinley administration, and espe-
| cially from Mr.. Hanna. 1t is campaign
debt.
We distinctly charge that after the
election of 1896 Mr. Samuel Shallenberger
was appointed Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General, in whose office all matters
relating to the railway mall service are
attended to, In pursuance Of a bargain
or understanding with the PennsylvG MIA
| Railroad. Mr.. Shallenberger at that time
was an attorney for the Pennsylvania
scription-possiblv the largest in the
United States-to the campaign fund
What could be more natural than that
| the attorney of the railroad should be
service Immediately after the election:
| Still. 1t was a second-class bargain, and
in any other country would have dis
graced everybody connected with 1t
shallenberger is still in office
This was in 1896. In 1900 there was an
other bargain with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. Again it made the largest subscrip
ton and again 1t received the largest
promises. In 1896 1t grabbed control OF
| the railway mail service. In 1900 nothing
less would satisfy it than the control of
| the Atlantic Ocean Clement Griscon
modestly asked for the ocean as a play
| ground-a small park" to be dedicated
to him and his associates and maintained
at the expense of the government OF the
United States. Clement Griscom Is d.
| rector and member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He
| is also the President of the 1nternationa
| Steamship Navigation Company, which l!
| as surely part of the Pennsylvania Com
| pany as Is the annex from Jersey city &c
Brooklyn or the Twenty-third Street fer
ry Griscom did not ask much or hard
He did not need to. After the election
all that he wanted was handed to him
in good measure, pressed down. full and
| running over.
The subsidy bill Is framed In the inter
est of his company. and his deep and pro
found and abiding affection affection, for II is nc, no
as fast as his ship-and no faster-nc
slower. 1t subsidfes swift S,n,; p pass fn
pleasure travel by well-to-do people. bu
carrying little or no freight; The SUB :.
iniquity. 1t is payment for. big cam
paign debt that never should have beer
| contracted. Other people, other corpora
lions, other railroads subscribed on gen
eral principles because they believed :
great issue of sound money was involved
and they had a glimmer OF patriotism
The Pennsylvania Railroad Is WORKING
for its own pocket all the time" 1t ap
parently subscribed with sinister pur
pose and with a constant eye for the
main chance.
There are other campaign debts out ant
not liauidated. The Rathbone case Is on
of them. But of all the campaign debt.
ever assumed these involving the appoint
ment of Shallenberger. the dismissal o
Evans. and the ship subsidy bill are tn
| most iniQuitous.