The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-12
MORE ERAUDSI

~ mere is rafting among inc uTy uones
of s outhern Office holders. They already
hear the distant rumbling of the thun-
der, but soon the storm will break
upon them with ali its fury. Let US hope
the storm will not abate, will spend none
of its force until every dishonest official is
swept from his place of trust and power.
The premonitlons of the storm first came
from Texas amid the grumblings of Flana-
gan of Flanagan Mills. Now may be
heard anew the cries of rage from Clay
ton and Dorsey of Arkansas, and the cry
is taken up and re-echoed by the immacu-
late Spencer of Alabama, Behold how
great matter a little fire kindleth Will
liam Sichles was offered bride, and that
offer was the spark that fired the train.
Already Kinds, Spencer's protege and the
newly appointed United States marshal for
the southern and middle districts of Ala
bama, has gone by the board-the presi-
dent promptly revoking his commission on
the discovery that he was implicated in
procuring fraudulent contracts from the
postoflice department J. j. Martin,
another of Spencer's pets, will be COM
PEELED to step down and out Of the fat little
berth of postmaster at Montgomery, he
having been guilty of.the little peccadillo of
furnishing straw or fraudulent bonds.
Other postmasters are having their offices
vacated, or their bonds revoked and ordered
to furnish new ones while innumerable
contracts for carrying the mails are being
set aside, and the contractors left out in
the cold. And attention is now being
turned to territorial mail contractors, who
are living in Washington Sin regal style. y
There was, it Is said, "too much postmas-
ter" in the recent Connecticut election, but
they didn't begin with these carpet baggers
of Texas, Alabama and Arkansas. Post
masler-General Jewell has bad job on his
hands in attempting to clean out these
Augean stables, but, to use a vulgar express
sion, she is just the boy that can do IT.
A hot bed of frauds has been exposed
through the belief Of one Kettle, the fortu
nate or unfortunate possessor of some sixty
Texas mail contracts, that every depart
ment clerk had his price-as general pro
position this belief may have had founda
ton, but there was an exception. He haC
been so successful in "corrupting clerks
that she became bold in his operations ant
assumed that all clerks could be manpu
lated to his purpose, says telegram. TIN
bids were all in for carrying the mails il
Arkansas, when Kettle approached Will
am Sickles, clerk in the department
offered him bride, and desired to inspec
the lowest bids. Sclilcs declined an
threatened an exposure, but Kettle obtaine
the bids from another source, and, after tn
expiration of the time for bidding, clandes
timely placed his own proposition anon
the regular offers which, it is needless t
say, were lower than all others. The bid
were opened, but those OF Kettle did nc
appear Still confident, Kettle complain
to Wiltshire, an Arkansas congressman, an
on the attention of Assistant Postmast,
General French being called to IL
matter, Sickles is requested to G,
plan-and he did explain to the confllso
of the conspirators. This was in February
but the matter rested until Tyner succee
ed French as assstant-postmaste genera
early in March, when it was Discovers
that 1t was not an uncommon practice L
men of the Kettles stamp to obtain of q