The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-07-18
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dreadful Words For Gov
ernment Employees.
"STAND AND DELIVER I"
High Handed Methods of Repub-
lican Campaign Managers.

High Handed Methods of Repub-
lican Campaign Managers.
sDEMAND so PER CENT OF SALARIES
lOMceholders Must Give Up or Lose
Their Jobs Cuban Scandal Not
Confined to the Posto1hce-How the
Boer Envoys Were Received by
Debate-concernins the Open Door
In China-The Democratic Leaders.
Especial Washington Letter.
aStand and deliver!r' was the ominous
command which Paul Clifford and his
:robber crew used to thunder into the
;ears Of travellers on Hounslow heath
and in the pleasant lanes Of England.
,..Stand and deliver" are the dreadful
words whispered in the ears OF govern
ment employees at Washington and,
rs for that matter, all over the country,
for there is no Republican oficeholder
big enough or small enough to escape
the modern highwaymen-the Repub-
Ican campaign managers. Rathbone'
Nicely & Co. steal on q huge scale IN
Cuba; the Republican campaign man
ayers hold up and sandbag the defense
less employees here at home. Civil
service rules don't count when cam
paisn is ONO. rot on your life. they
don't.
BlackL.ailers appear to grow With
what they feed on. In 1850 one Jay
Hubbell made his name loathed until
it became hiss and byword by black
mailing employees out Of 10 and 70 per
cent of their wages in order to raise
the siush with which to buy Garfeld,s
election. The hatred Of the American
people drove Hub5ell into private life.
but Hubbell was timId at the business
compared with latter day Republican
mana gers. who demand and get 80 per
cent. "'Tis true. and pity It's It's
truev'-that is. if the Washington Post
is to be believed. and remember that 1t
is q stanch friend to Mckinley.
Robbery and Blackmai1.
Here is a short extract from 4 two
column expose which The Post makes
of transaction which involved both
robbery OF the public and blackmail OF
the employees:
Congress took $4,000 out o: the treasury Just
before adjournment and presented it to the en-
ployees OF the senate and house. This was in
pursuance o. an old established cCstor-a custom
more generous than creditable-ot voting IN en-
ira months salary to each nan oa the capitol
pay roll Nobody has eyer seriously coHtencei'
that there is any real justification for this giving
away Of the peoples money. but both pclitica!
parties do IT. and j: has been doce so ot.en and
50 long that the Big annual gift IS c!ea'
gi..-has ceased 70 provoke more than feeble
and passing protes. i-o:3 e"ec TIE ~atchdogs OF
the treasury
But this yeors presentation 20 the force OF cap
itol e.ap.oyees has lad sequel more scandslouS
than tie presentation itself. Congress having lib
ersl!y voted 900 in tie shape O: extra salaries
the Republican congressional committee has step
peG in and asked the benehc;2ries on the house
roll TO give Up ore-haii CT the sur, they received
for use in the campaign. In ether words an e.
fort has been r.ade 10 utilize 80 per cent Of a
large appropriation o: public I-:oney as nucleus
of fund needed by the congressional committee
20 aid n the election G: Republicans 10 the Fifty
seventh congress = failure 70 respond freely ty
the eraployces has prevented the complete con-
summation of this remarkable project. but 1t is
no fault OF the congressional committee that Il
failed to get hold of 3 considerable share OF the
$4,000 so generously donated. There w2s belief
that $4,000 at least would be voluntarily sur
rendered but it is understood that less than half
Of this amount viii be realized.
Give Up or Get Out.
How do the taxpayers Of the land
like to have $4,000 OF their money pre-
sented in one COB to job lot OF Repub-
lican oficeholders and then have the
oficeholders plundered Of one-half of
It to hold the frecbooting administra-
ton in power for fou, Years more! It's
a pity that a resolute prosecuting at
torney does not get hold OF the black
mailers AID send them to the peniten-
tiary. We had to pass q new eXtradi-
ton law in order to get Rathbone and
NCciN DdCk= mere i.Oiii SU.jts- OQl l-ISt>S
blackmailers are carrying on their ne
farious operations il the full light OF
day at the Raleigh hotel. on PennsEl-
vania avenue. in the nations capital.
We are told that +. +. Schrader. who
is doing this precious business for the
Republican congressional committee.
assures a startled public that no coer-
cion is used. Oh. no. Perish the
thought. But there is not an employee
who responds to Schrader's invitation
to walk into his parlor at the Raleigh
who does not know that if he refuses
to come down with the dust to the
tune of so per cent Of his salary he will
lose his official head. So rather than
give Up his job he whacks up.
Schrader has been caught in the act
and in history will join Jay Hubbell.
Of odoriferous memory, but no doubt
there are others at work in every de-
pertinent Of the government, busy as
bees bleeding the employees in order
TO re-elect this administration Of puri-