Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1881 — Truth and Honor. Repnblican Love for the Boy in Blue. [ARTICLE]

Truth and Honor.

Repnblican Love for the Boy in Blue.

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The devotion* of the JtepubfcdMuparty to the boy in blue has often been the theme of admiring comment. In Chicago, for instance, all the Federal officeholders, every last one of them, would have been boys in blue if they had ever happened to have been in the army. Congress passed a law to show the party’s devotion to the gallant defenders of their country, requiring that preference be given in tha departmental appointments to Union soldiers, but was careful at the same time not to affix any penalty for the violation of the law. Somehow, the Union soldiers themselves do not appreciate this discrimination in their behalf. Largely because it is wholly theoretical. They have formed an association in Washington for the purpose of ascertaining why the law is practically a dead letter. They have found it out. Of the heads of departments not one was ever seriously a Union soldier. Bob Lincoln went down to City Point once and looked or. in a perfunctory way for a few weeks. The others remained safely at home, and, now that they have charge of departments in which the boy in blue is to have the best show, they proceed to look after their cousins, their sisters and tlieir aunts. In tracing the cause for the neglect of their comrades, the association of Union soldiers finds that there are 500 families employed in the Government service of Washington, fathers, wives, sons, daughters, all on the pay-roll of single departments, and this in violation of the law prohibiting the employment of married Old Kirkwood, of the Interior, has six relatives in that department. Postmaster General James has seen that the Jameses do not suffer. Green B. Baum has twelve relatives in the Department of Internal Kevenue, including two brothers and one son. Hunt, of the Navy, has put three sons of his in that department and one in the Pension Bureau. French, of the Treasury, has twelve relatives under lam. Tyner, of the Pos£dffice, has four. The officers of the soldiers’ association report this as one of a hundred like cases: “A certain United States Senator has a ‘lady friend’ who has been on the pay roll of the Postoffice Department for several years, but who has not been at the department two weeks altogether since her appointment. She has been receiving $75 per month right along. When the mLninistration changed and Mr. James Wfcame Postmaster General, this Senator sent word to his friend, advising her that she had better report for duly, which she did ; and, subsequently, the Senator succeeded in having her salary raised from S9OO to $1,200 per year. The appointee reported at the department regularly for a few days, and then discontinued going to her office except to draw her salary oa the first day of each month, which she lias continued to do ever since. ” Siere are * Washingtonians emoyed in the departments,- nearly every one of whom"was a babe ; iq arms during the war. would be bootless to go through the 'whole list. Enough has been ptesent(& to detnoilsirate the deep love of the Republican party for the gallant boy in blue. —Chicago Times. It would be supposed from its popularity that only one substance is now known to the world for the relief of rheumatism, and that is St. Jacobs Oil. —St Louis (Mo.) Dispatch.