The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-07
PIE HUNTERS HUNGRY.


ground and sees tile doings of the hum
gry horde 'of Office seekers who invade !
TIE national capital, writes the following
for the Raleigh News and Observer Of !
tie 2nd
Office seekers everywhere; they fill the :
boarding houses, cu1nber the depart
nents and crowd the lobb;es. They are
here from every strip and corner Of the
country. They are hungfy, they are
clanaorous. They look upon this town
as vast pie-coullter and think N1ckin- !
ley Is tie sardwicia-c1erlz, and curse lin
because he IS slow handing ont tie feed.
Of ali this numerous caravan Of oific2-
seekers few reach the oasis of appoint
rlent, and many Of their bones viii lie
bleaching on this desert Of hope--Wash-
ington.
The administration is 50 decidedly new
that the number and price tags have
hardly been taken of the coats Of Office
that Mckinley offsciais wear.
Ard yet the hungry mob llow1s because
the pie isn't handed ont faster
"Wly don't this blamed Congress go
home and attend to lis own Business"
said oile Of them II the lobby of the
House yesterday. Nobody cares piucll
of snuff about your burned old tariff;
that amt givin' tie men hat pulled the
plow relief. What we want is fodder
And here you blamed fools are, talkin'
yourself to death Oh tariff Damn your
| taritE' y
There are hundreds Of people from Ohio
here all wanting 'sorietl,ils;;" and enc
wonders if Mckinley doesn't regret car
ryirg his own State.
THIS early i'll the game, many of the
c.aasers after Office are weary and heart
sick. Already they have run the garlut
of living here; first at swell hotel, then
a cheaper place, and III few weeks all
the way down to a lodging house and
dairy lunch life. And they go around
and touch acquaintances for a "s1nall
loan
have talked with dozens OF them and
the chances Of nile-tellt!s of them are
very bright, thank you"
They tell me there are 1913 here from
North Carolina. caillped down; and they
watch PIitcliard, ard chase P:itcilard
and write to Pritcilard, and sometimes
, they say PritcIiard's committee room
looks like the North Carolina Legislature
is i'll session here.
"dow viii North Carolina fare il the
final distribution?' l asked gentleman
; 1wilo keeps right close figures.
"Outside of the State Offices, she viii
get about six places worth the taking
about six" he answered.
There viii likely be large crop of dis
: appointment gathered i'll tie Tar Hee
l State this year
!, Down i'll North Carolina some Repub
1icars seem to think Mckinley ends fo
Pritcllard to ask him what the Whit
l House family shall have for breakfast
t and consults him from breakfast to Ell
b bassies.
;, When one looks around here, It is har
to find the ice that Senator Pritchard cut
on this pond. He cuts some ice, but nc
L by any means enough to supply tn
n market.
And the news may as we'll be gent
q broker: to the Republicans from Hangin
Dog to Hunting Quarters.
The election OF EIr Pritcllard cost til
Il | III.
n And they don't really owe him an,
o thing
! Adjutailt General a. D. Cowles is her
=, as affable and pleasing as ever. Hewa1l
to be minister to Greece. lie doubtle
n settled upon this after having locke
II carefully over the list. His princip
Is claim to recognition is that the pos;tic
y, is now held by a North Carolinian, az
l it should be kept i'll the family As
' matter of fact, Dr.. Eben Alexander w
1t appointed not On account Of his residen
OF i'll the State, but because OF his prom
DE- ,.ence as Greek scholar. l get it on 4
II best of authority that. President Mex
ley will follow Or. Alexander with 6
=" other Greek scholar and author II
10 gentleman IS neither from North Carroll
T. i,or the South.
n The States that went for Bryan can e
III pect little favor from this adfnillistratio
Its attitude was pretty we'll illustrated
" few days ago when several members a
Or Senators were discussing the new tai
its bill. -''It is not i'll any sense sectional
av said prominent Senator. "Wllat do y
&c, call this and this Northern industry p
tected, and these Southern industries /
- ont i'll the cold" cited a Southern me
III Der. "'Weu, dammit he replied, ''if
or South expects to get anything otit CT
of tariff why the devil don't they votc
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