The Columbian

As the republicans do not yet seem to have a clear idea who is their candidate for Vice President, we again inform them that it is Chester A. Arthur, late collector of customs at the port of New York. And in giving them that information we furnish them also with the following testimonial of character. They should cut it out and paste it in their hats. It is from Sherman's letter to President Hayes, January 28, 1879.

"But it is to be held that, to procure the removal of Mr. Arthur, it is sufficient to reasonably establish that gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during the incumbency; that many persons have been regularly paid on his rolls who rendered little or no service: that the expenses of his office have increased, while collections have been diminishing; that gratuities in the nature of bribes, have been received by his subordinates in the Custom House: the efforts to correct these abuses have not met his support, and that he has not given to the duties of the office the requisite diligence and attention, then it is submitted that the case is made out. This form of proof the department is prepared to submit."