Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-02-21
'sThe Fate Of the PIdnderers.
|, Calling the Roll ofthe Thieves aud Ad.
yenturers who Ruled and Ruined
South Carolina From 1863 to
y aTs 1870.
letter 10 The Philadelphia Press


letter 10 The .Philadelphia P.'esS
WASHINGTON, February S.-A gen.
tleman,. who during the Reeonstruc
tion period. was intimately acquainted
with the Republican leaders Of South
Carolina has written an interesting
review of the political downfall of
those persons. The death of Con-
ressman Mackey, he says, has re-
moved the only real live force in op.
position to the South Carolina Demo.
Gratis, and there is no likelihood that
the State will ever be Republican
again. The leaders Of ten years ago
are scattered from Dan to Beraheba.
Outside of the Federal Offices there is
not one lef5. Patterson has given
! the State a wide berth since 1875
Tom Robertson, the other Senator, is
paralytic in Columbia. Bowen, who
held Charleston and all her interests
in his grip, is dead. Elliott, the
smartest negro developed by recon-
struction Congress, Speaker Of the
House and attorney general, elect, is
making a precarious living in New
Orleans.
Wright, the negro Justice Of the
Supreme Court, is drunken loafer in
Beaufort. Dunn, the comptroller gen
eral, is pedling patent glue in Bos'
ton. Hardy Solomons, the Jew hnan-
c;er and keeper of the State deposits,
is possessed of alittle bake-ahop in
Kansas City. Gurney, county treas
urer Of Charleston, is long since dead
Niles G. Parker, the manipulation OF
millions Of conversion bonds, keeps a
little music store in Indiana, and ekes
out living by lecturing on temper
apce and religion. Governor Scott
eince his trial for murder, is broken
in health and spirit but is solid fnan-
cially from thelise Of Ohio woodlands.
Hoge lives in Ohio, and remembers
the. fat pickings Of the comptroller
generals offise with pleasure. K. 3
Carpenter is wreck il Denver. Elk
Chief Justice Willard has drifted to
Washington, having been Gigested ard
difjected by Lis Demoerati, employees
of 1876. The Irresistible Judge T.
j. Mackey has also opened a]aw clii.e
in Washington.
Cardozo, ex State t.easurer, Al d
Swsils, once president Of tie Senate,
look contented with clerkships in tie
treasury. Whittemore is in Maasa'
chusetts. Charley Leslie is as shifty
in Kansas as ever be was in Barnwell
County. Kimptpn. once hnancla
agent Of the State in Wall street, Is
seedy looking fellow among thecu D.
stone brokers there. Puffer, who once
handled the assets Of the Bank of the
State, comes to Washington occasion
ally, cheerful, but not rich. McDevlit
knows the value OF four. acres in Col
orado as we'll as when he had the
revenues Of Edgeield County to back
his hand. John B. Dennis prospers
in Dakota.
Joe Woodruff practices Shorthand
in a counting.room in Philadelphia
not so prohtably as when he was
the king pin Of the legislative ring
as clerk Of the Senate and president
OF the printing committee. Neagle is
a special agent Of the pension Office,
and ast, but not least, Frank Moses,
the young native Governor in 1872
having served out his term for swlnd
ling in the county prison Of New
York, ia now teaching the rustlers
Of New Mexico some new tricks.