Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-21
The Spoils of Victory.

The radical cabinet ministers distribute
the spoils of office to the followers of the
party with the same want of delicacy with
which they accepted Grants appointments
themselves. That eminentpatriot, Adolph
Borie, Secretary of the Navy, who owes
his Office to the gratitude of Grant for per-
sonal favors in the shape of subscriptions
for house and furniture, has compelled the
commandant of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard to issue the following order
CoMMANDANT's OFFICE, UNITED STATES
NAVY YARD, Philadelphia, March 81, 1869
Sir BY direction of the Navy Depart
ment, you will see that no person hostile to
the present administration will be employ
ed in the yard department under your con-
troll
Preference should in all cases be given
to those who have belonged to the Union
party.
The Secretary of the Navy particularly
desires this should be done. Very respect
fully, J. B. MAReHAND, Commandant.
Under the sweeping orders of Borie, I'm
ion soldiers are being turned out of the
navy yard every day to make room for hun
CRY partisans, who never saw the face of
an armed enemy during the war. Scenes
like the following take place every morn
ing. An officer of the army who had en-
tered the service as Captain, and was
mustered out honorably as Colonel of his
regiment, and who had bravely participa-
ted in many battles of the war, held the in
significant position of master plumber in
the navy yard. He is brought up before
the Chief OF his department for dismissal,
when the following dialogue takes place :
superintendent -"M "Mr.--- my orders
are to remove all the employees of this yard
who are not Union men,"
Colonel-'1 believe I'm a Union man,
since l served in the Union army from the
beginning of the war until it closed"
superintendent. yes, very good,
but, perhaps, you do not quite understand
me. 1t is rumored that you did not vote
for General Grant How's that 2"
Colonel--'I did not vote for Grant"
Superintendent THAT will do. Your
services, regret TO say. are no longer re-
quired. The orders of the Secretary of
the Navy are peremptory. Good morn
ing" Exit Union soldier. One of the
truly loil who has been promised the place
puts his head in at the opposite door, as
the Colonel withdraws. He served man
fully during the war as sutlers clerk, and
did fair share of repeating the tickets of
the Grant electors at various precincts last
November
The next candidate for dismissal is Il
poor Union soldier who lost his right arm
at Gettysburg. He was employed in the
navy yard at the hard work of turning
grindstone, for pittance from his grateful
country. One of the radical spies who
hang about the yard had reported him as
q democrat.
Superintendent. .-"W WHAT'S your employ
ment in the yard ?"
Soldier-"I turn grindstone
uperintendent.-'I am informed that
you are not Union man"
Soldier.-'H this is my sign, I am"
holding up his stump
Superintendent that's not what I
want to know. Did you vote for Grant
and Colfax !?
Soldier.-"No, sir not by d-n sight"
Observation-Disclosures enough. We
have no more need of you here"
The last heard of the soldier, he had pur-
chased from his savings an organ, and was
grinding out dulcet music for the ears of
the truly loil on Broad street, not far from
the palatial club house known as the Union
League Building, where Borie and his
friends nightly meet to boast of their patri-
otism and love of the soldier r--Hnrisbug