_Names._ _Political Employment in 1876._ Office Held Now.
M. L. Stearns Governor Commissioner Hot Springs F. C. Humphries Elector Collector Pensacola S. B. McLin Member of Returning Board Associate Justice of New Mexico (not confirmed) Moses J. Taylor Clerk Circuit Court Jefferson County Clerk United States Land Office Joseph Bowes Inspector Leon County Clerk Treasury Department W. K. Cessna Judge Alachua County Postmaster R. H. Black Inspector Elections Alachua County Philadelphia Custom House Geo. H. DeLeon Secretary to Gov. Stearns Clerk in Treasury Department John Varnum Adjutant General Receiver Land Office Chas. H. Pearce Elector James Bell Changed tickets, Jefferson County Timber Agent Manuel Govin Republican Manager of Monroe Consul to Spezia ---- Phelps Political Manager Secretary to McCormick at Paris Exposition E. W. Maxwell Detective in employ of Republican Visiting Statesmen Lieutenant in Regular Army P. G. Mills Telegrapher who gave news about Democratic dispatches Treasury Department W. G. Purman Republican Member of Congress Sister in Treasury, dismissed when he said he considered Tilden elected Dennis Eagan Chairman Republican State Com. Timber Agent L. G. Denni Republican Manager of Alachua Treasury Department. Removed and published affidavit J. W. Howell Manager false return from Baker Collector Fernandino
John Sherman Visiting Statesman, La. Secretary Treasury John M. Harlan Visiting Statesman, La. Justice Supreme Court Stanley Matthews Visiting Statesman, La. Senator from Ohio James A. Garfield Visiting Statesman, La. Administration candidate for Speaker Eugene Hale Visiting Statesman, La. Offered Postmaster-Generalship E. W. Stoughton Visiting Statesman, La. Minister to Russia John A. Kasson Visiting Statesman, La. Minister to Austria Samuel Shellabarger Visiting Statesman, La. Messrs. Hayes and Sherman's Private Counsel John Coburn Visiting Statesman, La. Commissioner Hot Springs E. F. Noyes Visiting Statesman, La. Minister to France Lew Wallace Visiting Statesman, La. Governor of New Mexico John Little Visiting Statesman, La. Attorney-General, Ohio
The following officers of the Government were in Florida during the Presidential canvass, drawing their regular salaries, looking after the canvass: