The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-14
THE cARPRTBAooER.

THE cARPErBAooRR.
 lBin Nye, in New York Mercury.l
 l Very few western people could eve,
 fully appreciate the disagreeabie feature,
 of the csrpet-bagging reign, l presume
 and am free to admit that, even thoupt
 in its worst phases have never grapple6 1 with it, if some of the appointments mad.
 in the territories are fair sample have
 some sympathy for the south.
 There are, of course, many good men
 sent out to act as governors, United States
 marshals, judges, etc., etc, in the terri.
 tories, and Wyoming especially, is ius,
 now blest with a set of officials who
 could not have been improved upon il
 they had been chosen by the suffrages
 of the people but you should have seen
 some of the broken-down buns that have
 been sent out into the mountains, instead of the asylum, in years g nc by. Some may not believe it, but the people of the ! territories live in human habitanons and
 wear clothes. Many of them can read
 write and cipher. They are the pioneers of viiization, it is true, but the Indian and the mountain-lion and the grizzly bear are not the worst foes that they have to contend with. With railways, telegraphs, telephones and the best of literature not only reaching every hamlet, but entering even the lonely ranche and the cabin of the miner, the new west does not fear the wild beast so much as the tame beast-the broken down wreck l of a political system peculiarly American. Washington had this peculiarity that the man who has once listened to her siren song and warmed his frozen heart in her smiles, in nine cases out of ten be- comes her slave. He is from that mo- ment victim to the office habit, and as the man who has once bucked the tiger and won seeks the menagerie again and again, even though he returns torn, lacer ated and busted, so does the thresahsrs and shabby-g genteel politician who has once lived easily in Washington for a time finger about the beautiful flame that he may scorch his wings once again. There are good many of these speci. mems. Some Of them have shirts, others have nothing but fading hope. Many of them have wal cd for years, a.kirg a big foreign mission at first, but at last lowering their estimate till they are will ing to do almost anything so that they may draw sum, no matter how small from the mighty treasury which you and l, gentle reader, labor to sustain. Year attes year this mighty army increases. The president and heads of departments become at last desperate. A widowed crank haunts them with his hungry ap- peals, till the suspicion arises that in a few more days he will blossom forth as an assassin if he doesn't get an appoint ment. and so the young territory has to suffer. The president looks on the map to see which territory is the farthest away, and from which point the appoin.ee would have the most difficulty to return, and then he makes the appointment.
 We had secretary once who thought when he was appointed that,the crowned heads of the world would probably make the welkin ring with glad acclaim and fairly make the Atlantic boil with red hot congratulatory cablegrams but they did not When he landed at Cheyenne the shock was not great. The social fabric of that wealthy and bright little city did not seem to totter much. Not a single tot The secretary even had some difficulty in getting the best room at the hotel, even when he stuck his fiabby stomach out and announced that he was secretary of state. He did not then know that in matters of social standing and salary the poorest paid justice of the peace in Cheyenne locked down on him and pitied him. He did not know that when he announced himself as a federal appointee he began to be locked upon with suspicion, and that he would have to behave mighty we'll for years in order to erase the bad impression which he had unwittngly made. The people of Wyoming will never forget him. He hoped for demonstration when he ar- rived, but he pray cd there would not be when he went away. He was the cham pion ass of the kno sn world. He wanted to be preceded by the ,6lare of trumpets. He yearned to walk over the wild and woody yahsos of the rowdy west He liked to have the governor 20. away 50 that he could appointa notary public at Deadmsn's Ranch and sign it as acting governor with . biz, big c. He did not kpov that the people of the west valkeA on their hind fest nA he went to Wvom- ing. For many moaths he kept is we'll ! O$s<sS s<S$ f<SfsS< Ss<6S = 1&S $SSIGfS86 of sssse, but be1ore hewent away he uied to conceal 1t. He travelled incog. as d matter cf saSety and comfort. ] k.c-i one man who has held an important federal o1ice two terms of fuur years each ard is liable to coutinue through his third term, which he has just beRan. but he did not begin by calfinx out the troops to come and hold his head while he thought ef . hard word. He knsw when he vent vest that the Lord reisned there alss, and dat the man who hspt his mo1th shut nost of the time was les liable te get an overdoss ef dayliGht in his vitais. He has lSed and psospesed and ossa twice Ssappointed.' The hood lum wek knsws whsn ie is veH used, and 1t also lnows whsn tAe president is seek. ing to plxy an April fosf trick e ie. When man goes into . territory nov. adays to sna9i 9inlD trade or Aaxincss, the pecplesar oucs ol5er aim every, kind of encouragenent; but whes he goes tAerel