Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — “PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY" [ARTICLE]

“PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY"

Some More Victims of Political Malady Are Reported. Washington, Opt. 23.—More official heads have fallen .as the result of charges of pernicious activity in the political campaign. The civil service commission has announced that after thorough Investigation J. H. Fordham, a deputy collector of internal revenue at Orangsburg, S. C., has been reprimanded and suspended without pay for fifteen days for active participation in the Republican state convention at Columbia.

Robert A. Stewart, temporary deputy collector, who was county chairman of the executive committee of Claredon county. South Carolina, has been reprimanded. R. O. Pierce, an employe of tl>d Mare Island navy yard who announced his candidacy as supervisor in the First district, has been discharged from the service. Clyde Knock, a letter carrier at Independence, Kan., who became the candidate for the district court clerkship, has resigned from the postal service to avoid dismissal.