Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-07-06

two hours in close conference after
dinner. Mr.. Gould is only one Of
many of the railroad and other
magnateS of the country the PreSi-
dent has been in close confab with
of late. Ii can only mean one
thing and that is that the President
has concluded that it is time to call
in the men who furnish the sinews
of war in political campaign and
i. surrender Ia them by assuring them
that they have nothing TO fear from
him and that he will not in any way
interfere with their graft. If it
does not mean that what does it
means If the people want To re-
tain that kind of a man i'm the White
House they will have the oppor-
tunity presented To them this fall.
One of the most idiotically anus
ing officials of this Republican Adj
ministration is Pension CommiSsi-
oner Ware. In the language of the
late William ii. Vanderbilt he is
more kinds of id fool" than
any man connected with this re-
markable and hySterical Admins
tration. His latest performance is
/ the issuance Of rush order number
I -, which means railroading old
age pension claims through the
Bureau for veterans in pivotal
States in the pending campaign,
such a Illinois, Indiana and New
York. Although order number IS
says that such claims shall not be
retroactive, and that the order shall
take effect April 13. 1904. claims
are dated back to January l, and
the deficiency appropriation of
/ 81, SOC, 200 Is rapidly melting away.
/ The result of this retroactive fea-
ture of the business Is that the old
soldiers will get much more than
they are entitled to under this old
age pension proposition which Is
the result of an Executive order
last winter, and not legislation by
the legislative branch of the Gov
eminent. but clear usurpation of
the same. This extra allowance
comes to the old fellows as sort
, of bride to stand by the Admins
, tration that gives it 10 them in the
pivotal States mentioned above.
. This little scheme on the part of
, the picturesque Commissioner was
, discovered by the Washington Post
and eXploded-to the utter demorili-
zation of the aforesaid p. C. He
threw all sorts of fits when il came
TO light and had a genuine case of
political Mysteries. This expose of
the cheap politicaltr trick on the part
of this cheap Commissioner came
out on Flag Day. the 18th of June,
and ON that day he had stunt to
perform in the shape of a speech to
the LOO clerks in the Pension
Bureau. 1t was the conclusion of
his antics, his posing and his
dramatically expressed condemna-
ton of the lying press" of the
country. In that speech which was
only ten minutes long he devoted
eight minutes To the Washington
/ Post in aSSailing it. He ravcd about
the article; told a story which can
be nothing but offensive to the
Italian Government. lift be noticed:
mentioned the name of a young
lady in a manner that would hardly
be toleratedamong barroom loafers,
and asScribed the article about his
Bureau TO spite. Wonderment at
such display of idiotic frenzy was
depicted on the face of every
official present, for of course,
every official who heard the Com
missioner's TRADE knew that the
Posts article was true-absolutely
true. He has been railroading these
claims of Old-age pensions and has
confined the railrOading thereof to
the States that are liable TO 90
Democratic in the coming election
to the detriment of the old soldiers
in every other State in the Union.
1t was a cheap political trick at the
expense of the deserving old sol
dierS in every other State in the
Union except those in the States of
Illinois, Indiana and New York.
He would not have dared to do this
without the sanction of the White
House. What do the people of the
country think of a man in the Pres
idential chair who plays this kind
of peanut politics What do the
old soldiers of the country think of
a prasiHanf nh