The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-30
Required to Post Knox Cir
cular in Conspicuous
Place.
THE OFFICE HOLDERS MUCH CONCERNED
Means That There Will be q New Deal
in the Republican State Committee
The Doodles Afraid That They Will
Not be Reappointed.

Inc UOOUleS d1IdAO AAdt lucy " -
Not be Reappointed.
The Attorney General Of the United
States, Mr.. P. C. Knox, hurled bomb
in the camp CT the Federal officeholders
and revenue doodles yesterday.
In an official communication addressed
TO officeholders here Mr.. Knox called
their attention to the fact that Govern
ment officials are prohibited from SER
vice on political committees and that the
spirit of civil service laws renders it
holders and employees to take an active
part in the direction of political ma
chinery
The order means that Republican office
holders and revenue doOdles must come
down off the State Republican commit
tee The Attorney Generals letter
created stir among the doodles here
yesterday With the letter were in
structions that the orders of the de-
partment. be posted conspicuously in the
offices of those officials who received
them. District Attorney Bernard received
his communication from the Attorney
General early in the day, and he lost no
time in mailing it at the most conspicu-
Gus place in his office.
designations or scalps' was the ulti-
matum that the Hon. j. c. Logan Harris
directed at the members of the Republi-
can State Committee who hold Federal
offices, some four weeks ago in an inter-
view IN the News and Observer.
Republicans LAUNCHED at Logue and not
a resignation came forth. After the ar
rival of the Attorney Generals nstruc-
ton Radical. ofticcholders were conferr-
ing and it is said that several of them
now have their designations written ad
dressed and stamped. If there is any
laughing going on today among Repub-
leans it will be confined to the legal
shop of the Hon. ]. c. L. Harris
Here is a list Of the members of the
Republican State Executive Committee
nearly all of whom are invited by the
Attorney General to chase in their resig-
nations or consider themselves out of the
running for reappontment at the hands
OF your Uncle Teddy, who is something OF
a civil service roformer himself:,t
j. G.. Pritchard, chairman, United States
Senator.
and his law partner
E. C. Duncan, Collector of Internal
Revenue.
III. S. Harkins, Collector Internal Reeve
nue..
A. f. Hoton, United States District
Attorney.
Fl. C. Dockery, United States Marshal.
j. M. Milliken, United States Marshal.
Tyre Glenn, Postmaster at Greensboro.
j. w. Long, Postmaster at Statesville.
C. T. Bailey, Postmaster at Raleigh.
Starkey Hare, Revenue Doodle.
r. ]. Lewis. Revenue Doodle.
W. ]. Sutton, Revenue Doodle.
r. d. Jones, Chairman Republican Com
mittee, Fourth district.
4. V. Walser Supreme Court Reporter.
H. r. Cheatham, colored Recorder of
Deeds, Washington, D. G.
Spencer Blackburn, Congressman.
Here is the letter which is the occa-
sion of all the commotion, and which was
received in Raleigh yesterday
Office of the Attorney General.
Washington, d. c.. Nov. %, 1901.
To all Officers and Employees of the De-
partment of Justice:
Your attention is directed to a circular
of this Department issued August 20,
1900, in which section of the Civil Ser
vice Act of January 10th, 1888, forbidding
any executive officer or employee, among
others, to solicit or receive political
contributions from any officers or en-
ployes of the United States, was quoted,
and all persons serving under this De-
rartment were required to observe strict
iy the prohibitions of that law, and were
recommended to refrain from service on
POLITICAL committees charged with the
collection and disbursement of campaign
funds. / now repeat the injunctions of
that circular, and add the following
further directions on this subject:
Rule of the Civil Service Rules pro-
vides that no person in the executive
civil service shall use his official au-
thority or official influences for the pur-
pose of interfering with an election or
controlling the result thereof. The spirit
of the civil service laws and rules rem
ders it highly undesirable for Federal
officers and employees to take an active
part in political conventions or in the
direction of other parts of political ma
chinery.
Persons in the Government service
under this Department should not act as
chairman of political organizations, nor
snake themselves unduly prominent in
local political matters. 1t is expected
and required that all officers and en-
ployes of this Department shall act in
entire conformity with the views herein
set forth.
United States Attorneys and United
States Marshals are hereby directed to
post conspicuously in their respective
offices copy of this circular, and other
wise to use every available means to di-
rect the attention of their subordinates,
and of all those who. are in the Govern