The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-02-15
South Cardinals Carpet Baggers.
NOT ONE OF THE OLD GANG LEFT IN THE
STATE OUTSIDE OF TIE FED
ERAL OFFICES.

A Washington dispatch TO the New
York Sun says The South Carolina
Democrats will make no effort to cap.
ture the seat made vacant by the death
of Mr. Mackey. The district will
probably be represented by negro,
and the chances CT ex-Congressman
Smalls are said to be good. While
Mackey was not carpet-bagger, he
was one of their crowd. Mr.. G. r.
Thompson, who was prominent in
South Carolina politics in the days fol-
lowing the war, in speaking of the car
pet-baggers, says that they are scat
tered from Dan to Beersheba, and that,
outside of the Federal offices, there is
not one left.
Patterson has given the State wide
berth since 1876 Tom Robertson, the
other Senator, is a paralytic in Colum-
bia /; Bowen, who held Charleston and
all her interests in his grip, is dead /;
Elliot, the smartest negro developed by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Speaker
of the House, and Acknowledgement
elects making precarious living in
New Orleans Wright, the negro JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, is loafing in
Beaufort; Dunn the Comptroller-Gen-
eral, is peddling patent glue in Bos
ton 1; Hardy Solomons, the fnancier
and keeper of the State deposits, has a
little bake shop in Kansas Gurney,
County Treasurer of Charleston, is long
since dead ; Parker, the manipulation of
millions of conversion bonds, keeps a
music store in Indiana, and ekes out a
living by lecturing on temperance /;
Gov. Scott, since his trial for murder,
is broken in health and spirits, but is
pretty solid financially from the rise of
Ohio wood lands Hoge lives in Ohio,
and remembers the fat pickings of the
Comptroller-Generals office with pleas
ure ex-Judge G. r. Carpenter stays
away from South Carolina, but has
doEe pretty well in the Star route
cases, and has not changed his politics
more than half dozen times Cass
Carpenter is wreck in Denver ex-
Chief Justice Willard has drifted to
Washington, having been digested and
dlsjected by his Democratic employers
of 1876 the irrepressible Judge I. j.
Mackey, has also opened law Office in
Washington Cardozo, ex State Treas
urer, aud Swails, once President of the
Senate, look contented with clerkships
in the Treasury Whittemore serves
the Lord in Massachusetts, with the
same JUNCTION that he did in the Senate
of South Carolina Charley Leslie is
as shifty in Kansas as ever he was in
Barnwell county Kimpton, once "f-
nancial agent" of the State in Wall
street, is lame duck among the curb
stone brokers there Puffer, who once
handled the assets of the Bank of the
State, comes TO Washington occasion
ally, cheerful but not rich McDevitt
knows the value of four aces in Colo
RADIO as well as when he had the reve-
nues of Edgefeld county to back his
hand John b. Dennis prospers in
Dakota Joe Woodruff practices
shorthand in counting room in Phila-
delphia, not so profitable as when he
was the king pin of the Legislative
Ring as Clerk of the Senate and Pre-
sideDt of the printing company Nagle
is special agent of the Pension Of
flee and, last but not least, Frank
Moses, the young native Governor of
1872, having served out his term for
swindling, in the county prison OF New
York, is now teaching the "rustlers"
OF New Mexico some new tricks.