Show HAMPTON TO Y AN JIAKfcH I That was a stinging rebuke which the venerable and chivalric Senator WADE HAurrox administered t the pious fraud of the postoffico department JOHN WAN MARCH recent It seems that the psalm singing official had promised Mr HAMPTON that no change should be made in the Columbia lumbia South Carolina postoffico without consulting him he being the senior Senator from that state relying on this promise Mr KAMI TON informed the present incumbent incum-bent of the postoflice accordingly and gave his additional assurance that he need not trouble himself about something else to do right away or words to that effect Well no sooner had Mr HAMPTON gone to his plantation than WNAMAivER with a true Republican instinct went back on all that he had said and had a new man assigned t the Columbia postoffice This put the Senator Sen-ator on his metal and he dressed the Phar isaical cabinet officer down in a manner that is truly refreshing in this day of fawning sycophancy and cowardice The most stinging part of HAMPTONS letter to WANAMAKER is well worth reproducing repro-ducing After announcing that hereafter he will know better than to trust in promises prom-ises from such a source the Senator sajs The newspapers state that besides managing the great department over which you preside you arc running a Sunday Sun-day school in Philadelphia and it occurs tome to-me that you might with profit to yourself select as a most appropriate subject of a lecture to jour pupils the instructive story I of ANAMAS and SAPHIRA This may give you a fine field for your eloquence in explaining ex-plaining to your ungrateful charges the importance of confining themselves to the ruth except when some fancied advantage advan-tage might be obtained over a political opponent op-ponent The English language if ransacked and n the hands of the most capable literary expert could hardly be made productive of anything more incisive or more fitting Truly the ways of pious humbugs and political shysters are becoming more conspicuous spicuous every day A few more breaks like the one cited will make the postmaster I generals position worth every cent of the 100000 which it cost him |