Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
Republican Loyalty.

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soldiers in the Confederate army, will
do we'll to explain the record of their
own party on that point.
Why did not these truly loyal gen
tlemen denounce the Republican
party when John S. Mosby, the no
torious guerilla. was appointed con-
sui general to China by Republican
president, on recommendation of John
| Sherman and James A. Garfield?
Mosby was known as the butcherer of
Union soldiers, but he has been kept
in a good, fat position by the Repub-
liean party most of the time since the
war.
Why do not these patriots tear their
hair over the fact that General Long
street, one of the hardest fighters IN
the rebel army, has been kept IN Of
flee nearly all the time since the close
of the war, by the grace of the Re-
publican party? He was first ap-
pointed by President Grant.
When President Hayes appointed
General Alderman, an ex-Confeder-
ate, to the position of attorney gen
eral, why did not these Republicans,
who have yet to learn that the war is
over, belch forth in thunder tones
against turning the government over
to the southern brigadiers?
General Withers, who served
through the war in the Confederate
army, was given first-class clerkship
IN the national treasury by John
Sherman.
Colonel Hathaway. who advocated
in his paper in 1861 the building of
bridges with the bodies of Union men,
was appointed inspector of customs
by a Republican administration. In
spector Phelps, an original Union
man, presiding elder of the NJ. E.
church, who, being too old for the
army, cared for the families of Union
refugees. was turned out III order that
ex-Confederate Hathaway might have
the position.
Stephen P. Bailey, major of guer-
lllas under Mosby, was appointed in
spector of tobacco at Pittsburg, Va,
by John Sherman, at a salary of
4 81 500 year.
Robert P. Bailey, son of the major,
also a guerilla, was made inspector OF
tobacco IN the Second Virginia dis
I trict, at salary OF about $1,000
Ex-Guerilla H Clay Bailey, anoth-
er son of the major, was made deputy
internal revenue collector for the
Sixth Virginia district.
= Simpson P. Bailey, another son and
! another Mosby guerilla, was appoint
ed sub-consul of Palemro, Sicily, at 6
handsome salary.
j. w. Chapman, another Mosby
}. guerilla, was mail agent and after
wards special agent of the treasury
under John Sherman.
J. II. Rives, captain of artillery IL
the rebel army, was made collector O.
internal revenue for the Fifth Vir
ginia district by the Republican
party.
Theodore Nilligar, who served
through the war in the New Yorl
Burgess rife corps, was discharged
as inspector of customs at Fortres
Monroe, Va, by the Union soldier
loving Republican party to make
place for Edward W. Massey, ex
!. Mosby guerilla.
The wife. daughter, son and son-in
h law of Yerger, the rebel who assassi
mated Colonel Crane OF Dayton, O
- of the United States army, at Jack
3 son, Miss, in 1866, were given pos
, tons in the departments at Washing
: ton by the great rewarder of loyalty
the Republican party.
ID Why did not the men whose soul
are now oYerfowing with patriotism
- raise their calamitous howl when thes
{ appointments were made? Wh
= were they SO meek and silent whe
President Harrison, few days ag
~ appointed General George D. JohI
son, an ex-Confederate officer, to
position as member of the civil SCI
- vice commission?
General John H Rice, of Fo
Scott, Kan. an ex-Confederate, an
D. his sons, have been living Of the pul
lie crib in this state for the pa
SON twenty years. They have been electt
ts. to Office on the Republican ticket ar
appointed to fat positions by Repu
son lican administrations, and yet the
!. there has not been word of prOte