Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-16
ALEX ANDRIA.
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 1G.

THE LATE executive order of President
Cleveland, not appropriately termed "a
warning 10 the Office holders" is pointed
reminder to the country, especially to the
South, that "old times have changed,
old manners gone," since republican Pres
ideu:s, and, along with them, republican
practices, have been buried, it is devoutly to
be hoped, beyond the reach of resurrection.
Would Cleyeland's nest recent republican
predecessor have ventured on any such or
der? Have not office holders dominated
the whole political land since the war until
the advent of a democratic President?
Were locusts or lice ever more numerous or
ravenous than these same petty parasites OF
the sickening era to which we refer? Were
not these men the veriest lick-splttles OF
their masters, the redoubtable "old guard"
of The "grand old party" and were they not
always at the front of the fight and did they
ever surrender aught that they ever laid
their hands on? How keenly must Messrs.
Lewis, Wickbam, Cameron, Riddleberger,
Blair, Hooper, Dezendolf, Smith, Ell At omnc,
relish the thought of patty convention
without the dominating power of the thrifty,
crincing, sycophantic Office holders! What
thinks Malone, and where would he have
been without the bread and butter battal.
ions that Arthur sent to his aid when so no.
bly, fought and hotly pressed by the devot-
ed democrats of this State? And where
would Arthur have been in the Chicago
convention without his solid Southern Office
holding support; his colored troops and bis
white oil feasting and fraternizing and gorg-
ing themselves at the last national conyen-
ton? Was not the negro Lynch, who be.
strobe that convention IS its president Tor
q time an office holder, gauger, or an IN
soector, or special agent. or something Of
that sort? Didn't so reputable gentleman
az Major Yost leave his postof1ice to follow
the fortunes of the Office holders candidate
aud to serve his boss at Chicago? Was not
tho irrepressibe Brady and all the other
collectors of revenue and Of customs there
DID ipecac ever make 80 active and power.
full vomit as Was seen on that great ma
tionsl occasion Of the G. O.. p? Indeed, II
has been 80 stated by republicans, and is
doubtless fact, that had the whole South
ern country been raked with fine tooth
comb, scarcely an official, white or black,
would have been found at his post of duty
for many days either before or after that
convention. They were travelling, intrigue
ing, cheating each other, cheating civil SER
vice, cheating the Government, in short, do
ing pretty much everything that an honest
official should not do And this is the SIM
pie fact, and every body knows it. When,
oh when, shall the country have another
reign of such a motley crew? When will
Malone next carry his crowd of official sat-
elites to Chicago? Whom will his best
man Brady make another campaign for Con-
press while in The Office Of revenue collector
at Richmond? When will the negro Peter
Carter, the late light house keeper, attend in
his official capacity another grand pow WOW
of republicans? When shall Harris and
Stephens and Ross Hamilton and Lewis
Lindsey again be seen? The times are in
deed out of joint, and the Office holders, at
last, thing Of 'inocous disutude." But it is