Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-03
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THE. WAGES OF SIN.
IN EX-GOVERNOR BEHIND THE PRISON
BARS.
1From the Chicago Herald. June q. i

IN E4-GOVERNOR BEd1ND IKE Th1oON
| BARS.
From the Chicago Herald, June 2l.]
Armed with an order from the sheriff, a
Herald reporter yesterday presented him
self at the Jail to see cdr. Warren" other
wise Ex-Governor Franklin J. Moses, OF
South Carolina. After little waiting he
was conducted to CDR. Warren's" cell. The
doctor" sat in the door with big tin cup
of coffee before him. A slender figure in
shirt sleeves splendid head Of silver gray
hair, cut with "bang" and parted in the
middle an aristocratic face, keen blue
eye, large nose, gray beard of perhaps
two weeks growth-otherwise facial and
personal neatness-made up the picture.
The Herald man recognized his victim at
the first glance and extended his hand
through the bars. "Frank, how are you ?'
The Ex-Governor looked moment in be-
wilderment, and then panied look came
over his face. "My G-,"he said, 'is this
you ?"
Thirteen years ago the Herald representa-
tive, then connected with New York pa
per, had represented that journal at two ses-
sions of the South Carolina Legislature.
Franklin J. Moses at the first session was
Speaker of the Assembly and the avowed
candidate for Governor to succeed the car
pet-bag Governor, R. K. Scott, of Ohio.
Moses was elected Governor to succeed Scott,
and held the Office three years. He was a
power in the South. Young, brilliant, un-
scrupulous, he welded a terrible power for
mischief. He was not a carpet-bagger. He
and his father and his grandfather were
born on Palmetto soil. His family, were
among the most respected in South Carroll
na They lived at Sumter. Frank, the son,
and afterward the Chief Justice, the father,
joined the carpet-baggers. The old man
tried to do what was right in the electoral
contest of 1876, and in measure redeemed
himself, but for Frank, the Governor, who
had consorted with carpet-bag and negro
Legislature, there was no forgiveness.
When Hampton came to be Governor, Mo-
ses, the carpet-baggers and the vultures gen.
orally fed like thieves at the sound of po-
liceman's rattle.
When "Dr. Warren" had recovered his
surprise at meeting an old South Carolina
acquaintance, his first question was: Are
you still newspaper man ?" and his next
imploring words were: "Now don't make
this any worse than IL Is !"
The Herald man smiled at the thought
that such a fall could be any worse, but he
promised not to refer to the doctors" pres
ent troubles. "I only wanted, he said, "to
know if you were the real and genuine
Frank Moses ?"
eyes; here I am," said the Ex-Governor.
"It is little different position from that
YOU first saw me in, but don't think too hard
of it. I amt all bad, nor am [ wholly with
out hope. Idon't ask any old friend to trust
me. recognize the disgrace of it all: l
must fight my own battle, and just now fate
seems rather hard. Now, please don't tear
me all to pieces, will you % the tone, with
which this was said would move an obelisk
from it's base. The Herald man replied that
he cared nothing for the ex-Governors trou-
bles in newspaper sense. He did want to
recall old times and ask after old acquain-
tances during the good old days of pelf and
plunder in the Palmetto State. "What for
instance, has become of Governor Scott ?"
he asked by way of starting the converse
tiOn.
The doctor" looked minute through
his bars as if engaged in work of intro.
spection. "Oh, yes; Scott" he said. "Well
he's down at Napoleon, Ohio. He got out
Of that murder scrape by paying handsome
ly the widow his victim. When he did
Scott acted honorably in that as he always
did in everything" "And Cardozow pur-
sued the reporter. "Cardozo is a Spanish
mulatto, and sharper than chain lightning.
He was convicted of malfeasance and bribe-
ry, was pardoned by Hampton, and is now q
clerk in the treasury department at Wash
ington, and is one Of the best clerks there.
Been promoted three or four times. You
know he always was the best accountant we
had there. Ifever I wanted correct state
ment of anything relied on Cardozo."
Here the Ex-Governor allowed himself to
wander off into retrospect. He stretched his
legs and seemed to ferget his surroundings.
'Tell you who / met the other day." he
said, sat the Palmer House. DR.. Neagle-
remember him? Comptroller, you know,
gle came up to me and says, Hello, Cover
nor.' Now between you and me that was
not my title just then, and looked at him
hard. Then he says, Frank, don't you
know me?' Well, didn't though Neagle
and were like brothers years ago. Then
he told me his name, and l almost fell in
his arms. Neagle has changed so nobody
would know him. Grown stout and gray,
and rather decrepid. Tim Hurley-you re-
member Tim. Tim has gone to Europe.
Tim was jolly Irishman who came down
there when I was Speaker, got into the
ring and made money. Tim was going to
play it fine. He was going in for home
improvements and to become a citizen of
the soil. He stole through the lobby and
tried to curry favor with the home people
by buying city lots. 1t didn't work. Poor
Tim. He had suburb off Columbia called
'Hurleyville.' I guess it's been sold for
taxes dozen times. Tim has gone to Eu-
rope. Nobody knows whether he is rich or
not, but guess he saved enough out of the
general wreck to make himself comfortable.
Remember Parker, the treasurer?' eyes"
swell, Parker is in Philadelphia-rich, 1
believe. He and Honest John Patterson
always trained together. Patterson is in
New York. His famous epigram, Five
na,' did not come true. Remember John
Dennis?" eyes," "Well," said the ex-
Governor, "Dennis is at Yankton, D. T.,
has a biz business there, and is rich, Of
course. Cass Carpenter, the carpet-bag edi-
added, with bitterness. "Old Dick Carpen-
ter, the Judge; let's see, don't know where
he is living. 1 saw him here at the Con-
vention, but I lodged him." the ex-Gov-
ernor said, with laugh. "Worthington,
the old collector at Charleston, is clerk in
Washington. He was here at the Conven-
the scoundrel that turned States evidence
Washington clerk. ''Sometimes," said the
Ex-Governor, with bitter smile, II think
it would have been better for me if I had
gone to Washington and got clerkship.
People call me a thief because was Cover
yor Of Sor,th Carolina in q porruDt ora hut