Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-18
THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. 10, 1900

ONE of the most disgusting incidents
Of the pending Presidential campaign is
the manner 10 which the "bread and
butter brigade" Of the administration
have 10 fulsome style been sounding
the praises OF their chief. The Cabinet
set the example by running OF to make
speeches for Mckinley. These speeches
had little ability and only one s'gnih'
csnce The orators wanted to be re-
tanned ia their present lucrative posi-
tiops. Next came the bureaucrats. Tney'
too, must 90 home and take the stump
The idea that they were thus en-
ployiug and stealing time for winch
the people paid by their taxes never
once seemed to have occurred TO tnem'
On their return to Washington they
Vvould prepare elaborate interviews Tor
publication. describing their journeys
nolitical efforts and observations OF the
GREAT popularity of President McKin'
lev. All these interviews read a'iKe'
They had the usual twang OF the syco'
phant. Possibly. the President was
pleased, but he could not help seeing
the motive. II be didn't see it, every
body else did. With this sort OF stun
tho nnblic has been fed until every body
has become nauseated.
There is another class of government
benefcisries and stipendiaries who ep-
pear even worse by comparison. These
are Southern men wboafter, being ele-
waited by their own people to office, have
finally found it to be to their interest to
get as near the Presidential pie-counter
as they could. They are for Mckinley
OF course. Why not? "The OK knoweth
his owner and the ass his masters crib. "
If Bryan should be elected. they will at
once discover him to be q grand patriot
and statesman. There Is book on the
Hessians OF the American Revolution.
There ought to be a second edition OF
this book gotten up and q chapter 10
it specially prepared, given an account
of the Southern Hessians who have
sold themselves to the administration
with O picture OF each one OF them,
holding out his hand for future favors.
The honest, unpurchased people OF the
South will DE very apt to remember
this class OF people for long Il ne.
They will have their reward In more
senses than one. Dugald Dalgetty was
q gentleman 10 comparison with them.
There is another brigade OF the grand
republican army, creatures of small
cslibre, who by fswning pro-
cured and held offices under Cleveland,
and who, because their master betray-
ed aud stabbed the democratic party
that had honored him and given him
high Office, think that to the end OF
their lives they, too, should emulate and
copy his treschery. These creatures
tell us that they stand where they stood
in 1896. This is not true. They did
not "stand" in 1895. They simply
crawled to the foot stool of power, and
If Bryan be elected they will try to re-
peat the operation. As cloak and ex'
cuse for their treachery, they say they
are for gold. They are for gold or any
thing else they can put in their pockets.
The lick-spittle brigade is not numer-
Gus, bat it is duly honored ia the Wash
lngton papers.
Then there is the negro brigade,
some honest, others rapists, chicken
thieves and what not-lovely COM
panions for the rest of the army. And
yet they tell us of all sorts Of people
being for Brysn-hsyseed farmers, uu-
cou,h workmen, and the like. We are
glad to have them.