And his claim was thoroughly refuted
even in regard to the items which he specified. He also
made some very bad appointments, which deeply offended the
best Republican sentiment in many of the States. It is a
little singular that the appointment of the Collector of
the Port of Boston should have cost two Presidents of the
United States a renomination. Yet so it is. The old feeling
in Massachusetts that it was not, on the whole, desirable
to nominate Mr. Blaine existed in great strength. The business
men liked Arthur. They thought their interests were safe
with him. But the honest Republican sentiment of Massachusetts
was deeply outraged by the appointment to the office of Collector
of Boston, of Mr. Roland Worthington, against the protest
of her Senators and Representatives in Congress. He had been
known only as an unscrupulous supporter of General Butler,
and as the editor of a scurrilous newspaper which bitterly
attacked the opponents of that person even where they were
honest and trusted Republicans. To give this place to Mr.
Worthington the President refused to reappoint Mr.
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