St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-01-28
NOW THE spoILs.
Vacancies TO Be Created for ofisce-
Hungry Republican Party
workers

Washington advices intimate that
an executive order has already been
prepared which will remove from the
classified service 957 deputy collectors
of internal revenue, COG examining sur
geons attached to the pension bureau.
and number Of minor places, in order
to create vacancies to be filled by
''party workers. /"
With what consistency can President
Mckinley thus unstarch the civil serv-
ice? In his message OF December 3.
1897, he concluded his remarks con-
cerning the important branch OF our
government known as the civil service
n by saying: 4The system has the APP
proyaI of the people, and it viii be my
endeayor to uphold and extend 1t. =
Il, his inaugural message he further
more declared tina ~ efftteff ferns Il The
civil service must go on, but the chan9s
must be real and genuine, not perfume
tory or prompted by zealin behalf OF
any party simply because it happens
to- be in power" And while the presi-
dent appears to have overlooked the
subject IN this years message il he b.
credited with consistency Of purpose,
the omission must be attributed rather
to the pressure OF war topics and for
eign affairs than change of views
or wayering in adherence tociyil seEv-
ice reform. The Chicago Times
Herald, one of the strongest newspaper
supporters of the president. and which,
indeed, boasts that 1t is the original
Mckinley organ of them all, remarks
upon this subject
.Hav;ng SO committed himself to estab-
i;sh the civH service OF the government
more firmly on what ne justly styled
basis OF business methods and personal
merit what would be thought II he should
now yield to partisan pressure and throw
1.500 to 1900 places into the party grab bagR
..The public looks to President Mckinley
not to take any step backward in the re-
form which, TO use the words OF his prede-
cessor, has survived the doubts OF its
| friends as well as the rancour Of its ene-
mics, and has gained q permanent place
among the agencies destined to cleanse our
nolitics and to improve, economize ana
elevate the public service.
..Just when newly acquired national ter
\ ritory places fresh demands on our civil
service Il woaid be peculiarly uneimely ar ana
| unfortunate to make breach Ia the wall
| of approved merit that protects Il from IN
competence and partisanship.
Nevertheless, as the Times-Herald r
self putsi it, this is . Along xpected or
der, in anticipation Of which The spoils-
men have been licking their hungry
chops for months, = and 'snew they are
| sure that it is forthcoming immediate
ly.v--A Aibany Argus e s
| Will Hanna be tried on the
charges which are ready to be brought
against him? Hardly. And yet. mo-
| body in the country, who has any
claim to intelligence, doubts his guilt.
Great is Hanna-ism. and Mckinley y
its only prophet. Tanmany Times.
1T seems the commission to
whitewash Algerism gets pay 1000
-out Of S5oy0oo, 900 appropriated for
! the president to use for the national de-
tense. Is not this little tortuous? :?
Would IT not puzzle common mind
how it is national defense to r hite-
wash Alger and Algerism illinois
State Register.
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