Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — He Hit Hoke Hard. [ARTICLE]

He Hit Hoke Hard.

Lewis Hints, private m Company E. Thirteeth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, an aged veteran of Elwood, received notice that his pension had been reduced pending examination. Mr. Hines is a poor man and needed his $2 pension, but he sat down and wrote the following to the pension department. “Your notice of the reduction of my pension is received. Hoke Smith signed my certificate granting mo anincreaseof s2per month, and now he says it must be taken off. If I was hot entitled to it you had no right to sign the certificate, If 1 did not know that I was not able tn make a living for myodt and family by mhnual labor I would not have applied for a pension. I am sixty years old apd am entirely dependent upon my labor for a living. And the $2 per month would only help mo a hill*-. And my patriotism runs so high that I decline to go before a board of examining surgeons that was by an administraiion that is disloyal to the gov. eminent. The present adminis-tf-iti •)> reminds the old soldier of the commands and orders issued at Andersonville prison by Capt. Wirz. . The Union soldier that tried to make bis escape was hunted down by southern bloodhounds that had four legs. The old soldfev that in dependent and is getting a small pittance from the gov-

eminent that he helped to sate and inake glorious is now hunted down by Cleveland's bloodhounds that have only two legs. The diseased soldier that now asks for bread gets a stone; if he asks for fish he gets a serpent, though Cdeveland puts in about half of his time fishing.” •