carpet strainer (karpetstra"ner)

Same as all the conventions in regard to the presence and great prominence as members, of what the Louisiana people carpet-stretcher. call carpet - baggers -men, that is, who are new-comers in carpet-stretcher (kär'pet-strech"er), n. A the country. The Nation, VI. 123 (1868). carpet-baggism (kär'pet-bag"izm), n. [ car pet - bag +-ism.] Government by carpet-baggers; the practices or methods of carpet-baggers. See carpet - bagger , ( b ). [U. S. slang.] Whichever party is succe ful this year, the vile scandal known as carpet - baggism is doomed, and the states lately in rebellion are sure at last of being left to themselves. C. F. Adams , quoted in Merriam's Life of Bowles, II. 195.