Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-09
CARoLINA,s CARPETBAGGERs.
Not One of the Old Gang Left in the
State Outside of the Federal Offices

Not One of the Old Gang Left in the
State Outside of the Federal Offices.
The South Carolina Democrats, SAYS a
Washington special to the New York San,
will make no effort to capture the seat
made vacant by the death of Mr.. Mackey.
The district will probably be represented
by negro, and the chances of ex-Con-
gresham Smalls are said to be good.
While Mackey was not a carpet-bagger,
he was one of their crowd. Mr.. G. r.
Thompson, who was prominent in South
Carolina politics in the DAYS following the
war, in speaking of the carpet-baggers,
says that they are scattered from Dan to
Beersheba, and that, outside of the Fed
aral nffane. tna"n 10 not iaif
Patterson has given the State a wide
berth since 1876; 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 reconstruc-
tion-Congressman, Speaker of the House
and Attorney General elects making a
precarious living in New Orleans; Wright,
the negro Justice of the Supreme Court,
is lOafing in Beaufort; Dunn, the Comp
troller General, is peddling a patent glue
in Boston; Hardy SOlomons, the financier
and keeper of the State deposits, has a
little bake shop in Kansas; Gurney, COun-
ty 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 lee
turing on temperance; Governor 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 remem-
bers the fat pickings of the Comptroller
Generals office with pleasure: ex-Judge
u. K. Carpenter stays away from South
Carolina, but has done pretty we'll 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
dlslected by his Democratic EMPLOYERS of
1876; the irrepressible Judge L. j. Mackev
has also opened a law office in Washing
ton; CardoZO, eX-State Treasurer. and
Swails, once President of the Senate. look
contented with clerkships in the Treas
ury; WhittemOre serves the Lord in Mas
sachusetts with the same JUNCTION that he
did in the Senate of South Caro-
lima; Charley Leslie is as shifty in Kan
sas as ever he was in Barnwell county;
Kimpton, once Financial agent" of the
State in Wall street, is a lame duck
among the curbstOne brokers there;
Putfer, who once handled the assets of the
Bank of the State, comes to Washington
occasionally, cheerful but not rich; Nc
Dewitt knows the value of four aces in
Colorado as well as when he had the reve-
nues of Edgefield county to back his hand;
John B. Dennis prospers in Dakota; Joe
Woodruff practices shorthand in a count
ing room in Philadelphia, not so profta-
bly, as when he was the king pin of the
legislative ring as Clerk of the Senate
and President of the printing company;
Nagle is special agent of the Pension
Office; 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.