The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-09-20
The isDsgaGS,
HOW TIE ADMINISTRATION PGoY'2G VI
TOR THE SOLDIERS.

HOW TIE ADMINISTRATIONS PISGN2;,El
TOR THE s1LD5Ens.
No rctrcncilment shat the House
Of Representatives. tan make wil! ex-
pei the nepotism and favoritism that
ran through ali The public depart
nents, and will continue while shey'
are administered by the creatures d
Grant. Tie removals 81 Washing
ton made necessary by the recent act
have Included some If the best clerks
| in order &c retain some Of She worst,
who are protected by partisan intlu-
ences. And while tie Secretaries
seek to shelter this discrimination
behind the law, and pretend sney are
power!ess, they find means to make
new appointments at she :cry time
these excuses are fabricated Cor
their own relief. Senator Morton
put MS Youngest son, fresh from
college anG wholly withouo fitness.
into responsible Office rs soon as
Congress adjourned. another son
had previously beer provided for,
and his brother-in law il now hold
ing swo offices. This is The way
Morton takes care Of he soldiers,
for whous nc affects such cheap
sympathy; an(5 ahis practice is
followed By the BODY oF the Repub-
licans in the Serate and House.
IN. Z. Sur.
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When Bill Wheeler gets way over
in germont, among Che witch burn
era and wooden autmes manufactu-
rers. where & IS. more honorable 10
be common chief than to have been
q Confederate, he done care cent
what ne says. he, has said ina doz-
en- speeches IN that State, chat the
Confederate blouse turned ont Of Of
See fifty cripple. Union soldiers to
make room for corresponding mum
Der Of eX-rebels. IF Wheeler were
noy candidate for Vice President We
Would have 20 say chat was a bare
eacea lie. This story has been eX-
plodeo by every decent paper in the
JnioEe and nobody circulates it now,
except such unprinciple fellows as
Bill Wheeler and such lying newspa-
pers as The New Orleans Republican
and the Chicago 1nter-Ocean. =
Wheeler ought TO have told the Yer
smonters that Mosby, the ex- Confed-
crate guerilla, has large influence
in the administration, and that not
understanding all the Republican talk
about crippled Union soldiers, Major
Griswold, one Of Mosby's band, was
lately appointed to a place in the
Treasury, with salary Of $500 a
year, upon the direct recommends
ton Of Grant; and that Chapman,
another of the same band, only failed
to secure a special agency Of the
Postotfice Department because of &
difficulty with Jewell.
But then, thief like Boss Shep.
herd, Or Babco'k, or Belknap, or rem
egade like Mosby or Longstreet, con.
sGitute a good Republican and a loyal
citizen worthy of the highest consid
Grafton; while q brave and chival
rous Southern gentleman, like Mich
oils or Hampton, is, in the eyes O
1.-The average yermonter, a wretch
who should be tramped under roo
Or hung. ! N. @. Democrat.
---> 900 =
REFORM FROM THE OUTSIDE RENE
DE.--What nonsense it is to suppos'
: that the Republican party is reform
ing itself from the inside whel
, they have only put up new figure
heads. The leaders are Chandler
) Logan, Carpenter, Orth, etc. The.
have nothing to fear by the election
; of Haves His do.ncthino rnoord /