Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — REPTBLICAN CLERKS RESPONSIBLE [ARTICLE]

REPTBLICAN CLERKS RESPONSIBLE

Representative Taylor, of - the First Indiana district, is campin e o th- trail of the Republicans who are holding office in the Pension Bureau. Several times during the debate on the pension appropriation bill this week Mr. Tayl 3r took *a hand asking questions and making statements all tending to confirm the allegations in his resolution introduced a few days ago to investigate the bureau

“Aly attention was first called to the fact that some systematic plan prevailed in the medical division for th purpose cf discrediting the administration by the threatened suspension of several worthy pen« sioneis in the Fi st district,” s.id Air. Taj lor. “I made an examination and found that the clerk,- in briefing the evidence, had either corru,. tly or ignorantly misstated the facts, and had marked the case for rejection, when it was not justified .by the evidence on file. I called the ttention of JudgeLochran to the fact and he promptly restored the person whoss pension was under consideration to the rolls. I deemed the matter wor thy of some investigation, and i” the examination f mid that in the division where the rejections,suspensions and reduc' ions wer -» made taere were 144 examine. s. Of this number 116 were Republicans, som< of them the chief officers in the division. I found ‘his proportion of republicans would hold good in every division of tin Pension Bur-au. These Republican employees are held there under the rules of the civil service, and, when their attention is called to these errors, p ead that it was a mistake and not an intentional wrong. “Alany othf r facts are now in my knowledge indicating a systematic attempt of Republican employees tojdiscreditthe admin stration. I do not care to forestall the invest igation to be be made under the resolution I introduced last week. Suffice it to say, that I believe that facts will be elicited sufficient to convince one of ordinary judgment that these injustices complained of by pensioners is the : woik primarily of Republican and not of Democratic officials;”

After all this cackling about Gaiusha A. Glow’s majority in P nnsylvania it appears thdt he received 26,000 votes less than the republican candidate for congressman at largo in 1892. The democratic vote fell off about one hundred and fifty thousand from 1892, whio is not a very surprising thing to occur in an election one[ man in a hopelessly republican state, in, an off year. Had the full democratic vote been cast, Mr. Grow’s ma» jority would probably be 15,000 or 20,000. - . , - . I have made arrangements with Eastern capitalists whereby I can loan $30,000 00 in amounts from SSOO 00 • and upwards, borrower to pay commission 5 per cert. — Keep money 5 years or ffiore.

M. F. CHILCOTE.

We note, with pleasure, that Mr Banta, the well and favorably known agent of the Dayton, Ohio, Nurseries is making bis annua rounds of this and adjoriin Connies. Mr. B. has been making this route to the past seven or eigh : years and has made an extensive acquaintance. He is highly ess teemed and his mode of fair dealing has made friends of all with whom he has come in contact.