The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-23
The Fate Of Carpet Baggsrs.
Washington special to Philadelphia Pre-.

Washington special to Philadelphia Press. |
! A gentleman, who, during the recon
struction period was intimately acquaiht-
cd with the Republican leaders Of South
Carolina, bias written an interesting re.
view Of the political downfall of those
lpersons. The death Of Congressman
Mackey, he says, has removed the only
real live force in opposition TO the South
Carolina bourhonS, and that there is no
likelihood that the state will ever be Re
publican again. The leaders of ten
years ago are scattered from Dan TO Ber.
sheba, Outside Of the federal Offices
there IL not one left Patterson has given
the State wide berth since 1876 Ton
Robertson. the other Senator, is para
lytic In Columbia. Bowen, who held
Charleston and all her interests in his
grip, is dead. Elliott, the smartcst negro
developed by reconstruction Congress,
Speaker Of the House and Attorney.
Geneal-elect, ismakinga precarious liv.
ing in New Orleans.
Wright, the negro justice OF the Su.
preme Court, is drunken loafer In
Beaufort. Dunn, the controller, is ped
ding a patent glue in Boston Hardy
Solomons, the jew fnancier and keeper
Of the State deposits, Is possessed OF
little bake-shop in Kansas City. Guer-
ney, county treasurer Of Charleston, il
long since dead Niles G. Parker, the
manipulation Of millions Of conversion
bonds, keeps a little music store in In.
diana, and ekes out living by lecturing
on temperance and religion. Governor
Scott, since his trial for murder, is bro
ken in health and spirits, but is pretty
solid financially from the rise Of Ohio
woodlands.
Hoge lives in Ohio, aud remembers
the fat picking Of the controller generals
Office with pleasure. Fx.Judge II. B.
Carpenter stays away from South Car.
olina with care. He has done pretty
well in the star route cases, and has not
changed his politics more than a half
dozen times in the same number Of years.
Casa Carpenter is wreck in Denver.
Ex-Chief Justice Willard has drifted to
Washington, having been digested and
disiected by his Democratic employers
Of 1875. The irrepressible Judge l.. j.
Mackey has also opened law Office in
Washington.
Cardozo, ex-State Treasurer, and
Swails, once President Of the Senate,
look contented with clerkships Ia the
Treasury. Whittemore is In Msssa-
chusetts, Charley Leslie is as ahifty in
Kansas as ever be was in Barnwell coun.
ty. Kimpton, once financial agent" OF
the State in Wall street, Is a seedy look
ing fellow among the curbstone brokers
there. P1ffer, who once handled the
assets of the Bank of the State, comes to
Washington occasionally, cheerfully,
but No trich. McDevitt knows the value
of fol facres in Colorado a. we'll as when
he h the revenues of Edgefeld coun-
ty to back his hand. John b. Dennis
prospers in Dakota.
Joe Woodruff practices shorthand in
counting room In Philadelphia, not 80
proftably as when he was the king pin
Of the legislative ring as clerk Of the
Senate and president Of the printing
committee. Nagle Is special agent of
the pension Office, and last but not least,
Frank Moses, the young native govern
or of 1872, having served out his term
for swindling In the county prison of
New York, is now teaching the rust
lers' Of New York some new tricks.