Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-01
TO OFFICE SEEKERS.

Il u CFFLCE SEN Eho'
The Topeka Capitat-Common-
uealh has this interesting news Tor
this class of people:
Those not familiar with General Har-
rison's position on the civil service Will be
interested in reading bis letter OF accep-
lance, as well as the following short IN
terview with John &. New on this question
by staff correspondent OF the Philadei-
phia Press. MIR. New said: Il think 1t
will be satisfactorily enforced. do not
believe that there will be any great haste
in turning out Democrats. There will be
no clean sweep Immediately. General
Harrison is believer in the civil service
idea, and he will, I think, enforce the
spirit, if not the letter OF the law. Many
changes will be made, but not without
cause. apprehend, however, that there
will be cause enough for great many
changes. The postal service OF the
country is outrageously bad. Everybody
knows it. Here in Indiana it is ss bad as
incompetent men can make it, General
Harrison, l think, fully appreciates the
Importance OF improving the service, and
it is evident that it can only be done by
putting the work into the hands of more
competent men,
Editor Haiford, of the Indianapo-
lis Journal, has been selected as
the private secretary Of President
elect Harrison. The words of a
man who stands so close to General
Harrison must be conceded great
weight. The Journal said recently:
Justice to the incoming president de-
mands that he should not be over
whelmed by office-seekers, his time con-
sumed and his strength exhausted, to the
exclusion of more important matters. 1t
is an unseemiy sight and great injustice
time required to do these things properly,
but many of the desired changes cannot
be made at once. The tenure Of Office
law and the civil service law must be
obeyed in spirit as well as In letter.
Officials commissioned for four years
from the date of their appointment, who
are competent and efficient and who have
given no cause for their removal, viii
probably be permitted to serve out their
terms. The new president cannot be eY-
pected to make sweeping removals in
such cases. At all events, those who SO
expect will likely be disappointed. AS to
classified department clerkships and
places embraced in the civil service law,
while they are subjected to peremptory
removal, appointments to them can only
be made under the law.
This article will find many
WORLD readers ready to appreciate
the remarks Of Mr.. New and Mr..
Halford. In our own little county
the spirit Of the late Republican
campaign consisted chiefly in the
few. appointiye Offices which the
ring outfit imagined they saw at
their disposal in the case Of local
success. The interests of our county
and Of our section Of the state were
trampled under foot in that local
contest. There is, as yet, no Presi-
dent Harrison. Yet these schemers
have imagined that the fifth of
March, 1889, will not arrive with
out every appointee of President
Cleveland in this community being
handed his walking papers. A pc
tition has already been forwarded
for the appointment Of one of these
ringsters to the registership Of the
Wa-Keeney government land Office.
The postmastership is being sought
by large number Of persons.
The WORLD does not urge the
undue retention of Democrats in
Office. It does, on the other hand,
feel elated that its choice for the
presidential nomination recognizes
the existence Of the proprieties in
politics. As a rule, the headlong,
loud-mouthed spoils politicians
might all be killed off without
lessening the number Of true patri-
OTIS.