A Virginia Postmaster Heartrending Appointment Tale
A Philadelphia Record correspondent recalls a Virginia case during President Arthur’s term where a Mahone backed pick for postmaster faced protests over a drunken appointee. Despite letters and bartender affidavits, the senate confirmed him, bondsmen constraining the man and his son from entering the post office, a scene viewed as a reproach to civil service reform. The piece contrasts Arthur’s actions with Lincoln’s and critiques Republican praise of Cleveland.
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Naval officers and wives face a conflicting rule debate
Secretary Whitney enforces a new independence doctrine for naval officers but faces strong moral and practical objections. The rule would force officers to keep families at fixed abodes while families travel at will, exposing contradictions of discipline. The piece notes Chandler’s own wife accompanying him, questions enforceability, and satirizes bureaucratic overreach while touching on editorials, poems, and assorted pithy anecdotes from the era.
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