People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Good Thing For Officeholders. [ARTICLE]

Good Thing For Officeholders.

A gentleman who has reoently visited Canton brings with him what he claims is an authorized announcement that the present officeholders will be allowed to serve out the terms for which they were appointed by President Cleveland, exoept in cases where they occupy confidential relations with the exeoutlve. The same gentleman asserts that Major McKinley approves of the action of President Cleveland in extending the civil service roles over so large a part of the executive branch of the government and that he would not shed a tear if he had been deprived of all the patronage that pertains to the office to whioh he has been elected.—Washington Cor. Chicago Reoord.