Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — Clarkson’s Rapid Work. [ARTICLE]

Clarkson’s Rapid Work.

Nothing approaching Mr. Clarkson’s record has ever been made in the department. During the same period of time in which his predecessor, Mr.

Vilas, removed 4.000 fonHh-class postmasters, Mr. Clarkson has removed 13,000. His best record was 1,015 in one week, or an average of 169 each day for six days: for, of course, no assistant of so good a man as Mr.. Wanamaker would be allowed to work on Sunday. This would be about one removal every three minutes, which is extremely rapid work, and which would not be possible under a system which allowed removals for cause only. The present rate is about 600 a week, and this is liable to lie the regular pace, kept up w ith slight variations, until every one of the 55,000 fourthclass postoffices in the land has a good Republican in it.— New York Evening Post.