Vermont's Federal Officeholders Stand Their Ground
A local political note on Vermont's Republican federal officeholders refusing to resign ahead of the incoming Cleveland administration, testing the new civil-service reform pledges.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Page 4
1 min readSome of the [Vermont] holders of federal offices have distinctly made up their minds that they will not resign their offices to please either the incoming administration or aspirants for their places, but will wait to be removed for cause when they [...]
No man can maintain that they have been "offensive partisans," unless it be an offense to hold distinct political convictions and to be ready to avow them on all proper occasions. They probably do not ask any favors from Mr. Cleveland; but if the declarations of his civil service reform principles and purposes are not the merest wind, they will be allowed at least to serve out the terms for which they are commissioned.
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