Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — Must Not Dabble in Politics. [ARTICLE]

Must Not Dabble in Politics.

[Washington telegram ] Commodore Truxton, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, has directed the foreman of shipsmiths and the foreman of laborers at the yard to deny over their signatures a statement that they were members of a recent Democratic city convention at Norfolk or be discharged. The Commodore has prohibited political discussions in the yhrd, and says that any employe who takes a conspicuous part in polities will lose his position.