Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — Congressman Owen and the Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Congressman Owen and the Soldiers.

—Jouinnl. 1 “In the treatment of the soldier by the Cleveland and Harrison administrations the latter shows sixty per cent, more veterans appointed to office than the former. In the appointment of soldiers to government positions Congressman OweD, of Indiana, lias taken the lead. In thirty-one contests between civilians and soldiers over postmasterships he has appointed twenty-six soldierß, and in twenty-one appointments at A\ ashington he has placed sixteen veterans and sons of veterans. Every one iu this list above forty years of age, was a soldier, no one Laving been appointed who could Tlave lieeir a soldier and was not Every appointee not a soldier is under forty years of age, and could not have been one. The majority of the members of congress have given the soldiers forty per cent, of their appointments and many of them much more than this, notable among whom are Kelly, of Kansas, Boothman, Perkins and Cutcheon. The record of the Republican congressmen has been as liberal an pensions as in appointments, $168,000,000 having been voted for pensions at this session, which is forty per cent, of the entire income of the government, and a pension Vfeto has not come from the White House since Harrison was inaugurated.