The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-28
THE QUAKER CITY.
The Fat Fed Editors Of the Washing
ton Republican.
Grant at Last Excelled In the matter
Of Nepotlsm.
Conger Gets a Severe Raklng Over.

PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-[Special Cores
pondence.l-It is well for the people TO
know how thoroughly practices of nepotism
pervade the republican administration OF
the government, aud proper illustration
of all the facts and DO variety of corrupt
practices is discovered in the fortunes of
the family Of Copger. This exceeding good
man so abhorred the south that he would
not suffer rebel soldiers to be inferred (even
when IL was proposed by a Union soldier,
Colonel Mayers,) in the same cemeteries
with those of the north. But Conger's lack
of generosity to southerners discovers
ample compensation in Conger's de.
f Here he is only outrivaled by
Raum, thirty.one of whose kindred, by
consanguinity and otherwise, found de-
llghtful repose sub tegmine patnl@ whisky
bureau.
Blu, Conger, himself, is United States
senator. His brother is an impeached
United States judge in Dakota. His
nephew is superintendent OF Yellowstone
PARK. His son is assistant postmaster,
Washington, ID. G. ; another is consular
clerk; another, C ERIK o. senatorial COM
mlttee; another, of the fish commission |;
another, clerk in the Smithsonian institu-
ton.
But there is wheel within wheel, and
Copgerism runs along down from The WASH
ington city post office into the republican
newspaper of Washington city; this, too,
being a government institution, differed
and thus maintained BY, the government;
Washington city postmaster, was profess
sedly thrust out because he said he didn't
think Dorsey guilty. This was the reason
gwen to the public, but the real motive
was to make q place for CoDsers son,
Frank, who represents the illustrious
father as an owner and business manager
of the Republican. The salary, $1,000,
ment obviates the necessity for the expend-
iture OF this amount by the Republican. Sec
rotary Chandler's salary as editor, is paid by
the nav department. George Bliss, editor
in-chief, has been paid $3.50 per day until
he has drawn over thirty thousand dollars
and there is still balance of about S., 900
due which Brewster couldn't pay, the appro-
priations for George, this gang of special at
torneys'having been exhausted. But George is
the best paid editor in the United States.
Frank Hatton. the breeziest and most mod
est of editorial contributors to the pages of
the Republican, is salaried at $4,000, and
besides given landaulet by the govern
ment in which to air his personal charms
while the Republican ventilates
L. Tullock, Washington City, postmaster,
is another editor, and draws his salary, OF
course. paid by the Federal treasury. Mr..
Barbour, the excellent literary and news
editor, has a clerkship in the navy depart
ment paying him about So 800. Eaton and
Bivins and another one or two local re-
porters are department clerks, having as
such, nominal duties and devotlng ten and
twelve hours of each twenty-four to the
papes of the Republican.
Alas! poor Gorhani; he alone paid by the
paper itself as an editor, is now subor-
dinated by Conger's ring. and
by money and official power to
half dozen parasites of greatness. The
Republican is no longer the mouthpiece OF
the impulsive and generous Mr.. Gorham.
1t is often full of Conger's malice, and hates
the south and people of the south with a
malevolence wholly incomprehensible.
OF course, the Republican, thus owned,
thus conducted, and having its expenses
borne by the government, and having 49,
900 squirming postmasters forced by
the terrorism of the post-office de-
partment to act as, its agents,
will prosper for a time but its life is
blended with that of Couger. 1t is an I'M
natural outgrowth of horrible nepotism. 1t
is the merest trumpeter of the glories of a
gang of Conger's parasites. 1t is the soul
less pap-fed fulsome fiatterer of the official
aristocracy of the hour, and deserves for its
very methods of existence, to say nothing
of its shameless monarchical politics, the
execration of free men. FAIRNESS,