The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-11-06
The Chattanooga Convention.

Never in the annals of any country did
a more sorry lot of rascals come together
under pretense of political business than
those whom Poker Jack, Powell Clayton,
John Patterson. Charles Ananas Hays,
pinch, and Chandler assemble at Chat
tanooga. They seem TO have sat to the
press of the country for the pen-portraits
of a national rogues' gallery. No respect
able newspaper has treated them other
wise than with unmeasured contempt.
Our contemporary, the New York Times,
felicltatcs lis readers upon the unhappy
circumstance that they actually separated
without doing quite all the disreputable
things they came to do
John Patterson originated the scheme
to inaugurate the third-term campaign for
Grant, and get control of troops and pat
ronage in return; but Grant let him un-
derstand that the participation Of gang
like this wouldruin everything and so John
didn't even put in an appearance. John
and Moses and Chamberlain were so
strongly committed 10 the third-term that
II they had been present there would have
been no keeping it in the background.
And so John, wise in the generation Of
carpet-baggers, went home from Wash
ington and choked off the entire delega-
ton.
When these scamps began operations
they found themselves cruelty deceived.
The programme was shorn of all its fair
proportions by those memorable orders
from Washington. and the really dstn-
guished parties had all failed to come.
MAYNARD not only refused To preside. but
declined to come within hundred miles
of Chattanooga while they were there.
From Alabama there were Parsons and
Spencer from Arkansas. Poker Jack and
Clayton; from Louisiana, "Pinch."
These were the men of note. The rank
and file consisted of small-fry thieves and
bummers about the Government offices i'm
the various States. But Spencer and Clay
ton held the vagabond Congress with
firm hand, and squeezed II adroitly SO as
to make 1t emit an abundance of ''out-
RACES" but nothing else.
Outrage manufacture, then. was all that
was left them to do; and even this
seems TO have been q failure. While
the Committee on Facts and Statistics
were painfully collatng the cause Of
nose-pulling and booting in which
the unsupported carpet-baggers had
suffered, all the way from 1863
downward. there came distant rumors Of
the elections in Ohio and Indiana. Ac-
cording to a sympathiZing report. this
made them very sad. And well ii might.
The business has been overdone. and the
curse has come home To roost. II all the car
pet-baggers in the South were TO entwine
their tender c0nsciences" in single oath,
II would fail to prove an outrage to the
Northern mind. Charles Ananias Hays
has lived I'm vain, and the hopeful scheme
of Williams, John Patterson, and the rest.
to get up fictitious reign of terror for the
double purpose of carrying the elections
this fall and inviting third term for Grant
Is total failure. They have covered
themselves with lies for nothing, and have
gratuitously taught the decent people of
New York and Pennsylvania that while
Grant remains in power we are to think of
no political fraud and no imposition upon
public credulity as too monstrous for them
to attempt.
We hear OF no outrages I'm the South ex-
cept through Williams and the scalawags
and carpet-baggers who flock to him for
more troops" From all untainted
sources OF information. from the numer-
GUS correspondents Of the Independent
press traversing the region in question.
from the local journals, from commercial
travellers, from the Grange, there comes
mp broad, constant, uniform contradic-
ton. And the revolution in Louisiana ex-
hibited spirit on the part OF the whites
which has served more than all else to dis
abuse the Northern mind Of an unjust
prejudice. so long and assiduously cult
waited. Did they kill or pcrsecute the
blacksg On the contrary, they appointed
them to Office, enlisted them in their forces,
and magnanimously sought their friend
ship and cooperation, in the very moment
of triumph and power. One fact like this,
patent TO the eyes of the world, refutes
the whole race of carpet-baggers, from
Kellogg to Patterson. Williams may close
his outrage mill. If reports are true, he
was made as sad rs Poker Jack by the UNI
expected news from Ohis and Indiana.
We dislike to annoy the well-meaning. in
dustrious creature, but II Il our duty to
tell him that henceforth the "old thing"
will work the other way. He will live to
see his whole troop Of Ananiases drop po-
litically dead before his eyes.-Nno York
Sun.