Show THE CABPETBAGGERS A correspondent of the Chicago Timtt is making en effort to trace out the present whereabouts and fate of the old time carpetbaggers who lorded it over South Carolina a few years ago The Times man says The record of their departure and destiny reads like a roll from Tartarus or the records of Nemesis Neme-sis and the facts seem to bear out the conclusions One prominent carpet bagger committed suicide another is now In The Massachusetts Penitentiary one is living ob scnrely m OhIo another it is sup posed is working on a street railroad eee was hot out at the Blackflills by his mistress and another died suddenly at a dinner killed it is said by his virtuous 7 way of life If the Times man wants to add another interesting chapter to his writings on the fate of the carpetbagger in the United States he might hunt up the fate that has overtaken those who have waved the carpetbag sceptre over Utah He would add a goodly number num-ber of names to the list that read like a roll from Tartarus or the records of Nemesis The fate of a large number num-ber of those who have played the roll of carpetbag rulers m Utah has been unenviable un-enviable They have dropped out of sight so soon as they resigned It Indeed In-deed it could not well be otherwise Many ot them have been sent here merely to get them outof the way And when they were dropped from the positions posi-tions here they found no resting place for their feet only in obscufe positions in private life Politically they were dead and buried when they were released I re-leased from their position in Utah |