New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-14

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Fitz should have risked exposing himself
! in the eyes of envious Austin by drawing
on anybody is mystery. he, however
drops finances and recurs to the Dewlder-
ing grandeur of his own position We
do not know that there are personal pro-
| nouns enough in our BREWER font to set
forth the consequence OF Fitz, but we
| will try:
lam a biger man now with the mem
| hers than old Grant, I can not put my foot
| on the floor OF the Hall but that they make
| a break for me & sometimes dozen begging
at me at once for places for scme friend,
| scaIce.y ever git ont of the Office to go on
the Il oor Of the House, have under me
| the Folding rooms, Document Rooms, File
rooms all committee rooms, all employees
| in the South wiog Of builing and entire
| sonth wing of capital. have Supt ana
| assistant III each department ard about
| dozen book keepers besides my Ohce clerk,
| Il we do things up in stile. have boy TO
take my hat and coat or cant turn arounu
| without some one at my beck and call, u
when get all my new appointments broken
! in, l shall have nice time.
| Adding to this that S. S. Cox
| The warmest friend of mine you ever saw.
| also the New Speaker Mr. Kerr, Fay and
| mvself spent tie evening with Mr. and
Mrs Kerr iast evening, l am q great favor
| lite of hers Mrs Coxs & Mrs Senator
| Gordon
The glor: of Fitz is complete. The hu-
initiation of the inappreciative inhabitants
of Austin is pitiable.
! We have not bestowed such space upon
subordinate official except for the pur-
pose of drawing a useful moral. This
is An example of the spirit in which the
control of the federal government is
sought. It shows the character and class
Of people who may be called on to ad-
minister the duties Of the government.
We believe it was this gentleman who
bounced" all Republican officials and
replaced them with such Democrats as he
could 'sstick in," in spite of the men,
bers s'clamorous for their constituents, "
looking out for his friends.
"And if cannot make q place myself I
after Christmas"
Multiply the three thousand and odd
Democratic applicants for the few loaves
and small fishes of Fitz, and the people
! may imagine the miracle of feeding mil.
lions of seedy and starving Democratic pol
it;cians, who seem to move, like Mexican
army, with their women and children in
the rear. This political Cossack, camping
amid the luxuries of the federal city,
vaunting his consequence, and calling te
his old comrades to come and participate
in the free political plunder of city te
be sacked, is IN example of what might
be anticipated in the event of Dem
ocratic conquest.
We suppose our readers must have
noted that neither here nor elsewhere ha'
the Democratic party employed its powel
to reform abuses by imposing any lega
restrictions upon official patronage. Th'
policy of the party has been to e1pe
Republicans from Office, and replace then
by men OF their own party. The genial door
keeper, Fitzhugh, has given specimen
of what the public may expect if the mil
lions of Democratic demandants shall b.
congregated amid the spoils of fedora
Office. Can not Fitz be engraved on I
campaign picture?