The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-01
Mary Clemmer in the Cincinnati CONNER
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SIMON AND THE WIDOW.

Facts Regarding Senators and Treasury
Girls-Virtue as the Price Of Place.
A senator said to me that none ofthe SEN
ators ventured to joke with Simon Gamer
on on his breach of promise case, on &C
count of his extreme irritability on the sub
1ect. 1t is also currently reported among
the senators that "the woman is crazy"
II she is lunatic, II can be easily proved
then why should "Simon" be deeply moved
in the spirit of his mind by anything she
may say of him 1t is public fact that
she has been frcquenter Of bis committee
room, and in her present course she proves
that she is not so crazy as she is cute. II
is not O savory subject, and l refer to it but
for one purpose-that to hold up once
more to public execration the base and
shameful system in our civil service OF max
ing the places of women in government
employ dependent upon the personal pat
ronage and favor of men in official power.
What comment on human selishness is
the fact that, with all the legislation of sue
cessive congresses, the employment of wo-
men in the departments of the government
to-day, as it was IN the beginning, is per-
petuated in favoritism, injustice, and vice.
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cure to a man government position.
What has woman but her personal inau-
ence In a thousand instances how dam
gerous, how disastrous that is. If the pub
lie man who holds the woman's chance for
broad is q good man, well X he is bad
man and she is weak woman, not so well.
a very few years ago happened to be
in house where senator of the United
States-a widower-paid the most marked
attention to lady in ii, who earned her
living in department Office. Neither her
intelligence nor her culture was large, but
she was comely to behold, and had an affec-
tionate disposition. The man who sought
her society to the exclusion of all other
male aspirants, who drove away her young
man to threatened suicide, had many gifts
to charm weak women denied the power of
penetration and the heaven-sent protection
of insight. In the woman's heart with
loves young dream played visions of dawn
ing splendor, of the coming pomp and glory
of life soon to be all hers as a senator's
wife. She told her friends Of the approach
ing marriage, and the senator's public alb
eolute and undivided devotion certainly
seemed outward proof of her happy ssser-
tione. Her monthly stipend was INSULT
cient to procure sufficient outfit for the
grand dame of the future. She borrow ed
money from more than one friend, and
putting 1t with her own sayings in New
York, bought costly trousseau, fit for a
senator's wife. She came back to WASH
ington with it. She made ready for her
nuptials. The marriage day was set. 1t
came-but not the senator. Where was
her Gone to his daughter. He shared her
fond arms with her lapdog. Here the smil-
ing and witty victim" shut his handsome
eyes in pious peace, thanking God that at
last he was beyond the designs of "that
woman" To hear the daughter tell the
story was something wonderful. "Poor
father !" "Almost caught in such pitfalll"
"Such designing piece!" "She courted
him-certainly she did,"
Yet everybody who knew the two knew
perfectly well that he was sinner full of
guile, whose practice on woman's atfec-
tons was fine art, and that she was wo-
man, unsuspectiDg and high-minded to a
singular degree.
Had she been less sensitive and more
worldly, she would have sued him fo,
breach of promise. AS 1t was, she hid her
marriage garments out of sight, and went
back to her desk there she sits to-day.
We all know that a woman Of feasibility
would never sue a man for breach Of PROM
ise of marriage. no matter what her wrongs
might be- But is fortunate Tor justice that
some women are not troubled with sensiblli-
ty, and do their best to make such mascu-
line sinners suffer at least part of what
they deserve.
Mucn fun is still made or Senator Chris
tiancy for marrying girl of nineteen, out
of department, but be at least proved
himself to be an honorable man. Like
many another old patriarch, strong in his
affection, and wilful in his head, he fell in
love with a little Treasury GIRL" with II
braid of golden hair hanging down her back,
and in spite of children terrible, and fun
poking world, he married her. Now, if he
had only not married her, but pursued her
in secret, made her place the price Of her
virtue, ruined her, nobody would have
laughed at him; a few would have shaken
their heads. but the mass would have con-
sidered Old Christiancy vastly cleverer than
they do to-day.