The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-12-07


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4 How ReYoi uti Ized tlae raeiit ton
y 81 che Fensf and Made
I 4 the Employs
Their safarie
1 When Eugene T. are arrIyet
4 from Topeka to be commis 81
8 pensions he was welcomed as q man
I.of talent and I'd good quail I'LL
picture Went into 81 the n newspapers
Z $50 did his verses. a jingle writer
land a lawyer from Kansas. he was
$tpicturesque and novel. or course be
was not a revolutio nist- Besides
4 Theodore Roosevelt had read HIS
poems, had met him out West. had
! invited htm&to the White u House for
i lunch. and had given him once had
4 pressed it on him as being a public
duty. Ware a lawyer in Topeka, was
making money. He hadn' t asked for
an Office; nor had his friends So
licited or limited It for him. says the
shington correspondent of the
Kansas City Journal.
The President, knowing he had
been a soldier. and a good on i've
years IN tho army. wounded. going
from the ranks to be captain ofsSa
company lighting secessionists and
then Indians the President being
aware of this and having d comrades
spirit for fellows who write. urged
Ware to enter the governm en- t.
5sss The whole matte was personal
with the Presid 7e# hadn't con-
suited with any one in Kansas about
it, The Senator'S did not know until
after the choice had been made.
Ware was please OF course. 3 s5be.
singled out for Presidential fayors
and strictly for your own wort hiness.1
and indivi duality Is a fine compli.|
ment. Thus 1T was that Ware. came
to Washington, and was hailed IN Joy
BUSINESS and honor. "A fayorite at tila]
White House! omcia1ism thought
it perceived a way TO further its own
interests.
shrewd man and honest, Ware
sat himself down in the#pension btl-
reau. looked around and waited.
long string of$rascals who had been
cheating old soldiers and their wild
ows came to see him. one today
Another tomorrow. They called /
themselves pension attorney
81 Shut out Of the departm ent for
they wanted to get back.
They cut UP like little dogs. barlling.l5
and looking pleasant but Ware
Woql IT let lem practice He
eyed them cody, heard their speeches5l;
and told them they ought to be I'm the
penftentiary. They went away, bit.
ter, busy and revengeful Ware was
an upstart and SO on. anyway. what.
did bum poet know about pensions
and honest la@y
BY and by Ware, now at5home and n
most thoroughly, turned his eye ont,
ais. own clerk some 1000! OF thenl.l@
man J. we're time Killers. Pain
III discovery Thes great building ii
vas choked with job holders, one mani
stepping on another III gettingI FL
round. Ware Wen over TT IN hfsj1 d
'wn mind and said pm ltc money vas
'eing wasted. Ii likewise his bureau b
houId be run on usiness princ lies: Il
+ he had sneered u the 3nag and Ia
iiped his coarse feet on the Constitu v
ion he would not have made himseIfti
lore odious and seontemp tlble. Tie Eai
lea S' A country Ia syer5 from out c
Vest comes here and tells JUS howl Ii
y run the government Ii g merzI N
Elants, the little shopkeepe the FIJI
aoetna aersat the corner and ne man 70
tho presses clothing over The gro ID
cry were shocked when they heard a
bout it. Clerks IN ALI Of the depart Hi
rents said that tines already weresIIl
az enough without Ware trying to. Hi
rake them: worse Don't We work e,
nttl past z Til trty minutes have [ia
nl..z e. 5to!eHer and orll a.
entity Wen so Blind Nervous Ell
all ready 10 swoopt:yy
Own Sstl on 3 us. Our aoctors Say We 81
ans stard ILL., Ever read 81 tile doczlth
rs IS SI'rornp q rushed TO the front1al
teryieMs and commune ations. tc
No labor union in the world has a II:$$S$
ty%unflerE the iecti ion Faf ttt