The Dawson journal., 1885-04-23

"NAO SNaNtANo uPOA CAO hOOueil, II
will unmistakably prove that all
the accusations made in the South
ern press against the carpet-bag
knaves was unmerited and false.
Let me say to Mr.. Harry Water
son and Capt. F. w. Dawson that
the retention in office of these
Georgia carpet bag knaves gives
the lie to every utterance they ev-
er made against them in their pa
pers. If Bryant is a fit person
for Senator Brown to hold in posi-
ton we see no reason why all of
the old carpet-baggers should not
be sent for and reinstated IN Of
flee, not only in Georgia but
throughout the South. They were
all princes Of integrity and decen-
cy when contrasted with the cod
fish consumer from Skowhegan,
Maine, who is now held in the
Georgia Marshalship by Senator
Brown"
ga word about the carpet-bag-
gers may not be amiss here. 1t
IS a lamentable fact that there are
several hundred clerks in the diff
ferent departments who are ac-
credited to the Southern States
who never even saw these States.
They were put in by such carpet
baggers as Dorsey, Kellogg, Spen-
Ger, Patterson and others. The
presence of these carpet-bag clerks
is well known to Democratic sena-
tors and members, who were wont
to make annual efforts to remove
them when the Republicans held
sway. 1t was. common for men
and women from Maine, New
York, and other Northern States
to be put in Office and accredited
to South Carolina, Georgia and
other Southern States. These
people should either be dismissed
or else accredited to the States
OF which they are citizens. There
is one fellow in the treasury who
is accredited to Texas, who was
never further South than Wash
ington city. No time should be
lost in remedying this great evil.
The carpet-baggers must either 90
out of office, or be accredited to
the Northern States which sent
them forth. The case of the no.
torious S. W. Dorsey is but typ
ical one. When in the Senate he
dozens of lewd women
to office, charging them to Arkan-
sas when in reality they never saw
that State. These women should
all be dismissed from the service.
Ii the heads Of the departments
want to remedy this evil let them
look over the department registers
where they will see what a sur
pris;ngly large number of persons
are charged to Southern States,
but were born at the North, East
and West.
HOW COL. CRENsHAw CAME TO BE
APPOINTED.
''It should be known to the good
people Of the State. He came on
to Washington in search of the
marshalshlp, now held by the no.
torious Bryant. AS soon as he
got here he learned that Senator
Brown intended to to retain Bry-
ant in office until next December,
when the programme is to place
one Nelms in his place. This
Nelms is now at the head Of the
Georgia convict camp, and is a
bosom friend of Senator Brown.
Crenshaw at once sent home and
got q batch of letters, written by
Nelms, that were models Of igno-
rance, bad grammar and incorrect
He took these letters to
Senator Brown, and threatened to
deliver them to Acknowledgement
that he might see how
ignorant Browns prospective mar
shall Of Georgia is. The Senator
Crenshaw not to expose
the ignorance of this convict COM
Offering to have Crenshaw
internal revenue officer,
vice johnson. There was sud
den running to and fro, Brown
working almost as hard for Cren-
shaw as he has been known to do
for Bryant and Bill Pledger.-
The appointment of Crenshaw
was made in a ''jiffy,' and he left
for Georgia in possession Of fat
office, which he never could have
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