Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — The Pension Bureau in Politics. [ARTICLE]

The Pension Bureau in Politics.

[From tho New Yo k T me», Oct. 9th.] Commissioner Dudley has been unable to dispose of the appropriations for arrears of lensions which he has asked : or and obtained because, as le said the force of >is office was insufficient to examine and pass upon the applications on file more rapidly. Now, this overworked official, with a part of his inadequate force, has deserted the loaded files at Washington, with their accumulated applications; and gone to Ohio to do political work of a particularly contemptible kind. This seems to consist in working on the hopes and fears of veterans to induce them to vote for Blaine under the pretense that it will hasten and secure the payment of their claims. It is only by an unjust discrimination that it can do anything of the kind, and this process of political coercion and blackmail is taking up time which might far better be spent for the benefit of waiting pen sioners in Washington. Mr. Dudley is using the last days of his career as ('ommlssioner of Pensions in spoiling ,a fair record, and he iSf doing it very effectually.