Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — Arthur as a Civil-Service Reformer. [ARTICLE]

Arthur as a Civil-Service Reformer.

Here is what Hayes and John Sherman said of Chester A. Arthur not long since. It is Republican testimony, and should not bo questioned by Republicans : With a deep sense of my obligations under the constitution, I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you in order that the office may be honestly administered.— lt. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Jan. 31, 1879. Gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during your incumbency, —Sherman to Collector Arthur, Jan. 31, 1879. Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no service ; the expenses of your office have increased, while its receipts have diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subordinates in several branches of the Custom House, and you have in no case supported the effort to correct these abuses. —Secretary Sherman to Collector Arthur, Jan. 31, 1879,