Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1878 — Army Frauds. [ARTICLE]

Army Frauds.

The Duke of Wellington’s caustic axiom that the first step toward a successful campaign is to hang two or three army contractors, has lost none of its truth since his time, as the returns of the late war sufficiently show. Indeed, it is stated on good authority that a regiment has been for several years on the Russian army-list, with its depot, muster of rank and file, names of officers, and even the very titles embroidered on its colors, which has recently been proved to have no existence whatever, except in the imagination of those who appropriated the money.