Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — DELPHI WILL HAVE NO ELECTION FOR POSTMASTER. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI WILL HAVE NO ELECTION FOR POSTMASTER.

The pations of the Delphi postoffice gave very little encouragemant to the scheme of holding an election to selec' a Candidate for postmaster, and it has been abandoned. Postmaster General Bissell, 1 t is understood gave the petitioners to understand that if an election were called it would not be by his authority. This action on the part of the Postmaster Gene ral is to be commended. The election plan is now advocated and urged by Republicans, as they are on tha ‘outs’, as a possible firebrand within the Democratic lines. They, however, were mighty careful not to adopt that scheme when in power Late reports from the prison "north are to the effect that Rev. Fred. Pettit lias been confined to his bed for the past six weeks and is in a precarious condition. He had just undergone a surgical operation , and the doctors expressed but little hope for his reco»ery. The reports conearning his declining health have not in the least heen exaggerated, and <t is the general belief of the prison officials that he will never live to hear the decision of the Supreme court in his case. After haring robbed the treasury of the surolus accumulated under Mr. Cleveland, s former administration the republicans would like to shift their responsibility for present financial demoralization.