Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — Democratic Nepotism. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Nepotism.

Extract from Put Donan’s two column “blast” in the Chicago Inter Ocean: “Ever since the days of Grant, the democratic par ty has howled itself hoarse and raw-throated over republican nepotists and nepotism. And to day every democratic Cabinet noboby, Senator and alleged representative have alt the departments at Washington jammed, till their heads and heels stick out of windows, with their sons and their uncles and their cousins and their aunts —to ’say . lulling of -the’r other female <y>- uriectione. Democratic Vice Pres nt Stevenson’s son was appointed a paymaster in the t avy—saddled for life on the country and the people, at $3,000 a year, and a pension to his widow —and did not get it simply because he could not pass the necessary physical examination. Democratic Tariff Abortionist Billy Wilson’s son has a similar appointment, and the people of the United States will be taxed for the rest of their lives, and their children after them, to pay this hopeful scion of slim-slam reform his generous annuity. Democratic Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle has two sons drawing handsome salaries from the govern-

meat, from you, from us. Democratic Secretary of the Navy Herbert has his son-in-law and a variegated assortment of other relatives and dependants billeted upon the dear people, you, us. Democratic Speaker of the House Crisp has his son, Charley, bagging $2,200 a year of public money > our money, as his teller—when all he could tell in a century would not be worth 22 cents. Democratic Senator Cockrell of Missouri, a wild-eyed and obstreperous reformer, had his son filching SIBOO a year as a committee clerk during all the years he was at school a thousand miles away. Democratic Senator Colquitt of Georgia till his death, had his 12-year-old son as an alleged messenger, abstracting $1,440 a year from the public pocket. Senators Ransom, Blackburn, Gordon, Harris, Arkansas Jones, Pasco, {Pugh, Mills and Butler—all illustrious and rambunctious democratic ranters against republican nepotism and nepotists—have sons or nephews pocketing big annual stipends of government money money because they are their sons or nephews. One official family in Washington has nine of its members on the

public pay roll! The whole government has been converted into a vast continental soup-house and free lunch route for the countless hordes of pauper kin of sham democratic statesman and air-saw-ing denouncers of republican nepotists and nepotism.