Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — CLARKSON WILL RESIGN. [ARTICLE]

CLARKSON WILL RESIGN.

Postmaster-General Wanainaker's First' Assistant t<J Step Out. Washington dispatch: The statement made several weeks ago that First Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson contemplated resigning has been verified. Mr. Clarkson, in conversation with a correspondent, said that he had originally taken the office only under the strongest importunities, and that he had accepted it then under the condition that he would; not be asked to hold it more than a year. When he accepted the office he did so only for the purpose of ridding the party of Democratic postmasters so far as it lay in his power. He hopes to be through with this before very long, and then he will return to the more congenial field of journalism. He regards the time that he has spent in the office as the most instructive year, of his life. He says he has learned more of the politics of every county and State in the Union in the ten months that he has been in office than in all the rest of his life put together. There is not a county in the States but has had its leading Republicans here before him fighting out their local battles, and he knows now the exact standing and exact worth of every Republican politician in the country.