The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-09
-. Robber Governor Turns Up
In a Chicago Jail.

rlE-IcIAuS say ludt luCy uedn 10 pros
ss,Ite him to the full ex ent of the law
M has been committed for trial and
cons to be utterly ~friendless. His wife
+. - this city, but IL is said that she aud
her family will have Iothing 10 do with
him. The Doctor sat ia the door with
& Big tin cup of coffee befor, him. \
slender figure in shirt sleeves; a splendid
head of silver gray hair, cut with a
bang and parted In the middle; an
ar.-tOcratic face. a keen blue eye, a large
pose, gray beard Of perhaps two weeks
growth made up the picture The Her
at} man recognised ri, victim and ex
teuied his hand through The bars
Frank, how are ypu?
The ex-Goyernpr looked a moment in
bewiiderment. and then a panied look
came over his face. My c. he said,
is this you?"
Franklin j. Moses was Speaker II the
Assembly and succeeded The carprt-hag
Governor X X Scott, OF Daio. He was
a power in the South. Young. brilliant.
ua.crupulous, he welded a terrible pow
ar for mischief He WIS not A carpet
ltggcr. tie and his father aud his grand
father were born Gu Palmetto soil. His
family were among he most rcspcctcl in
south Carolina. They livei AZ Sumter.
Frank, the son., and atterward the Chief
Justice, the father, ~jo'nel the ctrrct-
h~agEers. The old man tried To 10 what
was right IL the electoral contest of 1879,
and IN a measure redeemed himself, but
for Frank the Governor, who had con
sorted with carpet-bag and negro thieves
both IN the State Government and in the
legislature, there was no forgiveness.
When Hampton came to be Governor,
Moses, the carpet-baggers aud the Wi
lures generally fled like thieves at the
sound OF a policeman rattle.
When DIR. Warren had recovered
his surprise at meeting an old South
Carolina acquaintance. his first question
was. Are sou still a newspaper man 2"
a,i his next imploriug words were:
.'N,w don't make this any worse than it
is
amt all bad. nor am | wholly without
hone. | don't ask any old friend tn trus'
me. | recognize the disgrace of it al. |
must fight my own battle, an! lust now
fate seems rather hard. Now, please
DON'T Z a NE all to pieces, will your
The tone with which this was said would
move an obelisk from its base. What
has become of Governor ScOtt?'
The Doctor locked Il minute through
his bars as if engaged in a work of in
traspcctiun. oh. yes; Scott" he said.
We'll he's down at Napoleon, Ohio.
lie got out of that murder scrape by pay
ing handsomely the window ofhiS victim.
When he did that the Just called ii an ac-
ciient." And Cardozo ?" pursued the
reporter. "CarduZD l. a Spanish mulattO
and l. sharper than chain lightning He
was convicted of ~malfeaSance and bribery.
was pardoned by Hampton. and is now a
clerk in the treasury department at
Washington, and is one of the best clerks
there.
Tell you who | met the other day
he said, DIR. Neagle Comptroller, you
know, under Scott and under me. Well.
sir. Neag'e came to me and says, Hello,
GOVERNOR 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. l
didn't, though Neagle and | were Ike
brothers years age. Then he told me his
name, and | almost tell 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 a Jolly lrishman who came down
there when | was Speaker, got into the
ring ard made money. Tim was going
to play it fine. He was going in for
home improvements and to become a
citizen OF the soil. lie stole through the
lobby aud tried to curry favor with the
home people by buying city lots 1t
didn't work Poor Tim. He had a
suburb off columbia called 'H~urleyville'
! -uess its been sold for taxes a dozen
times. Tim has gone to Europe. No
body knows whether he is rich or not,
lut | guess he saved enough out OF the
general wreck to make himself comforta-
br Remember Parker, the tire asurer?'
Yes" We'll, Parker is in Philadelphia
rich | believe. II and Honest John
Patterson always trained together. Pat
terson i in New York. His famous cpl
gram. Five years IF good stealing vet in
South Carolina id not clme true. Re-
member John Dennis?' Yes Well
-aItthe px Governor, > Dennis Is at lank-
ton. ID. T, has a big business there, and
j. rich, Of course. Cass Carpenter, the
carpet-bag editor, is in Denver-he was
a sneak" Frank added with bitterness.
ODD Dick Carpenter, the Judge; let's
See, | don't know where he Is living. |
,lw him here at the Convention, but |
lodged him the ex-Governur SAID with
d laugh. Nv burlington, the old collec
tor at Charleston, is a clerk IN Washing
ton. He was here at the Convention.
So is Woodruff remember him the
s.1undrel that turned States evidence on
Is al and got into jail himself? He Is a
Washington clerk. Sometimes, SAID
the Ex-Governor, with a bitter smile, Il
think it would have been better Tor me
if had gone to Washington and got a
clerk ship people call me Il thief be-
cause | was Governor of Sou'h Caroline
IN a corrupt era, but | want to say right
how dat the bulk Of the stealing, the
horrible crimes in legislation, the awtu
corruption and defiance of decency. which
raa South Cardinals debt to > ,OOO,O0O
was before came into the ~GoVernorshp
] had nothing to do with Scott and Par
ker and John Patterson and their New
York man, kimpton. They were th,
oues that piled III debt up. was reck
less no doubt. | used to buy piggers to
= to do anything [ wanted done wher
was speaker OF the Assembly, and
got the money to do it with from thi
gang, but how they We're stealing wa
never revealed to NE | wanted to b
Governor. IT was a pride-a persona
and family pride. | saw there was bu
oue way-rnake myself popular with III
~niegers. did it. ] fltterad .ome. a.
sociated with other, but bought grea
mauy more. 1t was wrong, | knos
Ny life was ruined. ] was made an gu
cast. | did not dare ever 10 20 back t
Sumter | hal to meet my father eve
In secret. | am now an outca>t, a ms
cradle, wretched Jail bird, but even wit
that feeling | can see my errors an
b.aue nobt dy but myself. say -tthI
with Tho Id nleading loo / J don't be TO