Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — JUST TO THE SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE]

JUST TO THE SOLDIERS.

The Grand Army Gazette Praiaea the Administration. This administration, and Judge Lochren’s bureau especially, has done everything for the veterans that honor and justice demanded or could ask. If it set aside some unworthy pensioners, it gave the best of reasons for so doing. These reasons were not hearsay but official government records showing that the grossest favoritisih in rating and rerating had been practiced by the Tanners, Raums, Squires and others, and the action taken in those oases should have been approved by the Grand Army encampments, not condemned as showing “hostility to Union veterans.” We confidently predict that the administration of the pension bureau under Comrade Lochren will stand forth in history as one of the wisest and fairest and most just; that it will never be smirched as were those two that preceded it, and that so long as such official action is continued at Washington it will be deemed an honor to be on the pension roll of the Union.—Grand Army Gazette.