The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-24
THE CARPET-BAG EX SENATOR'S.
How They Have rared Since They Wore Re
tired from tho Capitol
Washington Cor. Philadelphia sstar.l

Since Spencer of Alabama, left hn Senate
ha haa been engaged IN mining. Rnd nm told
that recently ha cleared nlpan half million
pf dollars Ia the sale Of q Utah niue. | would
not he a,iipraei 10 apn him turn ~ apDn ~ a
delegate IL Congress from one OF the Fatrito-
Iies. remember talking with him on tho
day his tprn * plral. Said he ~ am glad
IL get ont of politics. for a while at least. |
am now going to devote my time to making
money and | ntn going to succeed. too, anh
IN lpsa than five years you viii ena me iark
IA a member of ono or the other Of these
wings nt the Capitol" Spencer is not over
Rnrty four years nf nEn.
The fact IL, tho majority y Of what we're called
the carpet bag Senators have been prosper
Ing Rtnoe thy ona4.d ~ hn Senators. Dorsey.
If Arkanpaa who is oDl y lity years old. mpdr
a quarter Of n million dulara In Kansas Pa-
rtir atnrly when tho road was pmrUhas q hV
Jay Gould Thia money 10 PIT ~ oa,tle
rancho in Nav Mexico, covering NC, nnn acres
If Iaud. MI Copeland, who visited the ranch
laat summer told mo that when ~ arrived
ha was astoniahed tu find cntpma5
dioua house capable Of accommodating
Ht lnaat twenty people. furnished with
tho taste of city reai,ianua, aud having most
If tho eonvenlences Of tho Same. On one
occasion. Mr.. Copeland RaYa, naraay AMI his
wife had AZ the ranch twenty five guests ut
dinner which was antva'i In courses, and was
na good IA any iirst-rHas restaurant dinner,
Hu aaps there was All abundance vi cham
pagua ien cold. with cigars and liquors ol ail
kinda Dorsey Ia ALSO Interested IN several
af the I.aahviila mlnna. nna hia friends aay he
will ha worth millions before long Hn Ia
now at hs homo Mt the Hot Springs In Ar
knnaas. tlxiuE NJ u delegation iron that
state tp tha Chicago convention fnr Grant
Mark NV word for H. narsey will he IN Com
urnae hafnra mauy days shall have come aDd
tolin Dpfaey Raya that hn would. jnaL for
the fun If tho Thing. like IL como hack here,
eimpiv Ia annoy eauie of tho fnlluWs who
hnnnded lin Whnn hR wna down.
tlp ytnn, WHO waA nnrstay's colleague In tho
Senate. Ia prusperiug. being the owner, of one
~ tho largest cotton plantations In Arkansas.
| saw hitn tho Other tlay nna hG tnli mo that
tho day Il not lar distant when tho Kepuhz
lieana viii again ba IN control In htEtanena
iln R9lh hat i'll the event nt GRANTS natnna-
ttpn the State would eurely 70 Republican.
Ex-Ss untnr Patterson, at South Carolina, le
now living in Haltimntr, tho prnailnnt H 4
atreeE lni way company. in which Don Gam
erou haa I, large peouhary interest. Fatt"t-
fun tells mo that ihN rntd IL paying hnnd-
| spmeIv. and ilai Tie II iu fair way " r'cpv-
| crnG hn fortune he lost In investing In South
| Carolina aernti ieA
| sawyer. nf South Carolina, and 6onover
| have not boon SO fortunate. Tho former i
now n clerk IN the Treasury Department.
| whia the latter IL Il special nEont Ia the Hnr-
| vire 0f the HAmn departments, apmiHta4lnnHd
| hy John sherman with the purpose OF having
| him fix the Florida dhlr4at'a ~ tho National
| Convention far him lShrrmgui, Sawyer was
ono Of the hfightest men IN the Senate. hut
ho took to vino aud cards and ol cpurfo
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