The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-12-30
from the columbus Journal.l

The drove of seedy Confederates who
/ have been snarling and rending each
/ other over the few Offices at the disposal
/ of the House of Representatives. have
I been more useful to the Nation in 1875
/. than they have been in the last twenty
! years before, if they have opened the
/ eyes of rejecting men to the prospect in
! store for US with the first advent of a
! Democratic Administration. Men who
had grown gray in the performance of
duties requiring expert knowledge and
experience, were ousted by men who had
no other recommendation than that they
were ten years ago in arms against the
Government they now demand to serve
at any price. Union soldiers, with one
limb gone, were ousted by rebel soldiers,
who were debtor for these and other
losses by loyal citizens. Rebel claimants
have not the decency to wait until the
House is fully organized before the tables
are deluged with claims which cannot yet
even be sent to appropriate; committees,
because the committees have not yet
been appointed. One officer fills all the
places at his disposal from his own town,
which is in neither State nor Territory
and he is not enough of an infidel to for
get his own family, as he looks after his
own town Another fills his subordinate
positions by tithing the drove from his
own State, leaving hundreds of disap-
pointed applicants from that one State
alone to fill the air with hungry howls.,
Our own. John g., who can make few
loaves and fishes go farther. than any
other not clothed with miraculous power,
finds his Office a burden, and even wishes
he were dead. The picture would be
pathetic if it were not ludicrous-ludi-
crous if it were not pathetic. There is a
L. /, - L., ~
hardly knows whether to laugh or cry at
the hungry, starving souls who clamor SO
like beggars in the high and mighty
language of ehivalry. Is it to be won
dered at that Democratic editor is una
BILE to restrain his indignation at the in
decent haste of INDECENT and inebriated
Virginia gentlemen" which has so dam
gerously enfeebled "the party by giving
the people of this Nation foretaste of
what they may expect from placing that
party in power2 Why could they not
wait one year2 But necessity knows
neither law nor expediency These ''iu- /
digent and inebriated Virginia gentle
men" have no other resource They
have lived in the sweat of other mems
faces until they are incapable of earning
their own bread. They have been taught |
to believe themselves the "ruling class"
They have made politics their only bust |
ness, and they find politics now their |
only employment They cannot plough,
SOW or reap. They cannot enter into any
agricultural mechanical or commercial |
enterprise. They have no aptitude for !
business" Slave labor has destroyed /
both brain and muscle, and slave labor /
no longer supplies the means for simple |
subsistence less for that easy
going hospitality which was so easy t
when it was supported by other mems |
hands, without any personal sacrifice on |
the part of the men who dispensed it so
royalty. Virginia gentlemen whether
"indigent and inebriated' and clamoring |
for Office, or whether modestly hiding |
their embarrassments under quiet and |
touching resignation more pitiful than .
beggary s self, are the type of the whole |
hungry, waiting crowd which crouches /
behind the Democratic party, |
ready to spring upon the spoils as soon
as that party can get into position to
command the party eommissary. The |
people of the United States may as well
recognize the fact cheerfully, that the
civalry have to be supported by public
if ever the Democratic
party gets into power. The chivalry
have lost heavily by the government of
the United States, since 1860; and they
will claim pay and back pay and front
pay from the government for every loss,
What they choose to claim, the Democ- I
racy dare not refuse.