Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — The Republicans Still Ahead. [ARTICLE]

The Republicans Still Ahead.

The Baltimore Sun prints some interesting figures, which, it avers, were taken from the official records, in regard to the number of Republicans in the departments at Washington. The exhibit is a very gratifying one—to Republicans. In the Treasury i lone, for instance, from which the Republicans were supposed to be pretty well weeded out, there are said to be twenty-five Republican chiefs of divisions. In the Interior Department some eighty Republicans have been left in possession of their old places and salaries, and comfortab.e salaries, too, ranging from $5,000 to $2,000 a year. The Stale. Army and Navy Departments are full of Republicans, and the Postoflice Department still has a large lot of the same old stock. Next we come to tho Government Printing Office and the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, each with a Republican head and swarming with Republicans. Here alone are between twenty-five hundred and four thousand places not subject to the c.vil-service rules, and highly convenient for Democrats; but the Democrats haven’t got them. Finally, even General Black, who has been assailed bv the Republicans for his preference for Democratic subordinates, is said to have retained eight Republican chiefs of divisions, thirteen Republican medical examiners, and various other Republican employes. And yet a Democratic administration has been in j>ower for nearly a year and a half! —New York Sun.