Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

There are indications that President Arthur Intends to stop the distribution of official patronage in Virginia in the interest of Senator Mahone. Silas W. Burt, who last year refused a similar position on the National Civil Service Commission, has accepted the Chief Examinership of the New York State Commission, of which John Jay is President Senator Warner F. Miller, of New York, in an interview with a Chicago reporter, said th r t the Bepublican party has made for itself a distinctive record as a protection party, and that any attempt to evade a square avowal of the principle in the next National Convention’s platform will result disastrously to the organization.