Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-01-30

Cot. JACK WHARTON AssocIATEsC
AHoSG GEsTLEMEN.-It appears thai
some jealous Republican Is trying 10
get Col. Jack Wharton U. s. Marshal
Tor Louisiana, into trouble, because. as
alleged, he is associating with gentle
men. Don Piait thus discouFses about
the mstter in the last issue ofthe Wash
ington Capital, 18th inst:
One Of the funniest things that has
transpired in long time is the report
Of the special agent Of the Department
Of Justice who was sent to investigate
certain charges that had been made
against Jack Wharton, United States
Marshal Of Louisiana. The special
sgens reports that none Of the charges
OF incompetency or inattentIon 10 official
duty were verified by his inquiries. but
that, upon close investigation, he found
the charge Of two great personal init
macy on the part OF the Marshal with
certain prominent Democrats 10 Louis
lana TO be strictly truel Now il is .
melancholy fact that personal intima-
cy" between Radical office-holders in
the South and prominent Democrats, =
or any other class of gentlemen, Is :
phenomenon which demands attention,
by reason OF its novelty, il for nothing
else. So far rs precedent constitutes
law, Wharton, as a Radical ofiice-hol-
der in Louisiana, has certainly con-.
mittcd'a grave olEense By so q J
himself as TO be able 10 maintain pleas
ant personal relations with bis respec-
table neighbors: for the like has never
been heard OF before since larceny was
made fine art and perjury reduced to
an exact science by the injection of New
England civilization into the bowels OF
the South. in the shape Of carpet-bag-
gerry. Wharton should be removed al
once, and Pitkln restored TO The post
ton which he is so admirably fitted to
fill without violation of the precedents
set forth above. The idea OF FEEDER
al oifice-holder in the South, under a
Radical Administration, associating with
gentlemen. as Jack Wharton does,
is simply the browning outrage. Bill
Chandler should write letter, Blaine
should make a speech and Edmunds
should rise to point OF order on the
subject instantly and all at once, or the
country will be ruined. and the blessed
amendments to the Constitution subver-
ted.
Aware Of Wharton's proclivities in
this particular, / warned him the last
time he was here that he had better
cut all his respectable acquaintances
and conform strictly to the civil service
rules that govern the social status oI
Radical office-holders in the South, OF
he would get into trouble. ] advised
him to begin operations by cutting a
very pleasant acquaintance that had sub
sisted for several years between him
and myself, which suggestion be adop-
ted. But, despite this good beginning
he appears to have backslidden as soon
as he got TO New Orleans, and TO have
returned to his original depravity oil
prelerring the society of gentlemen
He must therefore be regarded as in
corrigible. Nothing remains to be done
but 10 bounce him and put in bis place
some man who will comport strictly tG
that peculiar civil rule of Radicakfsm
which constrains a Federal Dice. hol.
der an the SoYsh.to associafe WITH dis
reputable chdzeeters exeius -
in filling his place Mr.. Hayes
try and select some fellow who
not be likely to be beset with any
temptations. He can find plenty Of
that sort, even if he has TO go to Cana
da or Massachusetts, and drag them out
of their places of concealment. But by
all means let Wharton be made ter
rible example of the dreadful conse-
quences which must follow indulgence
by radical Federal ofice-holder in the
South in the society or gentlemen
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS.-The recent
election Of Gen. James Shields as Uni
ted States Senator from the State oil
Missouri, is the most remarkable of its