The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-13
CARPET BADGERS.
Tho Rise aud Fall Of These Conscience
less Cormorants,
Who Fed ON the Flesh OF the Fallen
South.
WhIrs Of Their Upsavory Memory,

A gentleman who during the Tsoonstruo
tion period Was Intimately acquainted with
the republican leaders OF South Caroline.
has written an interesting review Of the no
htical downiall OF those persons Tht
death Of CONGRESSMAN Maokey, he says
has removed tue only real 1--we force Ia op-
position 10 the Soutn Carolina BOufbons,
ana that thuFo is no Likelihood that he
state Will ever be republican again, The
Leaders OF ten years asO are scattered from
Dan 10 Beersheha,
Outside OF the federal offices there Is not
one left. Patterson mas given 20 tue
state Wide berth since 1876. 1om Robert
son, the other senator, II pAralyue
m Columbia. Bowen, who held Char-
lesion ana all her inierssis in his gdp, IL
dead. Elliott, the smaltest negro devsl'
opcd by TecOnstTucllon congress, speaker
oi the mouse aud sttnrney-generhl'elecl, Is
making n precarioas living IN New Orleans.
Wright, the negro jus ioe OF the supreme
court, IL u drunken loaier Ia Beaniord.
Dunn, the compt ollet general, IN peddling
a patent glue In Boston. Hardy 5olomons,
the Jew financier ana keeper of the state
deposits, Is possessed OF little bakeshop in
Kansas CITY. Quincy, county treasurer OF
Charleston, Is long since dead. Miss G..
Parker, the manipulate OF millions OF con.
version bonds. keep l,ttle music store In
Indiana, aud ekes out living by leoiu ing
on temperance and religion. Governor
Scott, tince his trial for murder, Is broken
Ia health and spirit, but IN pretty solid
financially irom The rise In Ohio wood.
lands.
Hoae lives in Ohio, aud remembers the
fat pickings OF the comptroller generals
ONCE with pleasure. Ex Judge r. j.. Car
pentsr stays away from south Carolina
with care. He has doue pretty well In the
star.route cases, and has not changed his
politics more tlan half dozen tlmes In
The same mum Der OF yea \. CAss C.rpenter
IL wreck ia Denver. EG-Uhiel Justice
Willard has drifted ito Washington, hay-
ing been digested aud isircied by the dem.
ocratic EMPLOYERS OF 1876 The iirepressi-
BILE Judge l.. j Mscssy has hl3o opened
q law Office IA Washington.
COrdozo, ex-stlts treasurer, and Sweils,
once president of the senate, lDok content
ell with clerkships in tho treasury. Whi'
tlemore IL in MassnchutC,t'. Charlie
Leslie Is as shiity IN Kansas as ever
ne was Ia II ,rnwtll county. kimpton, once
Financial agent" of the state in Wall
street, Is seedy looking fellow among the
curbstone brokers there. Puffer, who once
handled the assets of the Bank oil the State.
comes to Washington occasionally, cheerful
but not rich. McDevtt knows the vslue of
four acres In Colorado as well as when he
had the revenue OF Edgeheld county to
back his hand. John b. Dennis prospers in
Dakota.
Joe Woodruff practices short.ha in a
counting room In Philadelphia, not so
probably as when he was the king pin OF
the legislative ring as clerk of the senate
and president OF the printing committee.
Nasls IL special agent Of the
pension office, aud last, but not least, Frank
Moses, the young native governor OF 1872,
having served out his term for swindhng in
the comfy prison OF New York, is now
teaching the "rusllers" of New Mexico
some new tricks.