Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — THE WAY IT IS DONE. [ARTICLE]

THE WAY IT IS DONE.

How Corporal Tanner Bestows the People’s Money On Those Not Entitled To It. Louisville Njws: Corporal Tanner’s extreme libe?al?y with the public money is well illustrated by a case cited at the Bourbon stock yards. The foreman for Mr. Chatham, the we 1-known cattle dealer, Capt. Dalton, has a son-in-law living at Frankfort, file captain one day conversing about the pension system at present in vogue, suggested to his daughter that she write and obtain a pension for her h .sband. “Why, he was only ac* cidentally scratched by a saber during dress parade,” said she “I‘hat don’t make any difference; you had better try,” the captain replied. Therefore she sat down and wrote to Mr. Tanner, stating thather husband had been scratched duiing the war, and asking for a pension. She expected no favorable answer as sha herself did not consider that there was sufficient ground, nor had she employed an attorney, and, therefore, she was greatly surprised on receiving one morning a d eck for twelve hundred dollars. Tanner had sen 1 this Sum on no other proof than her letter, and the captain’s friends regard this a typical case of Tanner’s looseness with the people’s money.