Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-13
HEED THIS CALL.
Resign, Evans, Resign ! and
Save the President.
A CONTRAST OF CHARACTER
Between Theodore Roosevelt and II. Clay
Evans as Deducted from Their Omclal
Records-The President Cannot Retain
a Man who is His Anthltrssis In Every
Thing OmciaIly just and Honorable
Resign mr. Evans.

As a President Of the Civil Service Com
mission, as Police Commissioner OF the
city Of New York and finally as Governor
Of the state, Theodore Roosevelt earnestly
and conscientiously supported with all the
energy Of his strenuous nature the merit
system. He believed then and he has given
no indication since that his mind has under
gone the slightest change on the subject
that all American citizens stand on the
same level and have equal rights That a
citizen should not be punished with dis
missal from public position or reduced In
salary because he votes as his conscience
dictates.
That the only just causes for reduction in
salary or dismissal from Office are Incidence,
iueficiency or immortality, He came to this
conclusion by deductive and inductive rea-
soning Deductively he reasoned from the
principle Of simple justice and inductively
the facts sustainedthe principle tits more
than a decade since Mr.. Roosevelt resigned
from the Civil Service Commission and in
the meanwhile many important changes
have taken place in our civil service. In
some respects, IL has been improved aud in
others 1t has become worse than under the
odious spoils system. Where a government
department came under the supervision of
am honest conscientious public servant the
result was Improvement in every particular,
but where as I'M the case Of the Pension
Office, am uuscrupulous partisan is chosen
to administer the affairs of a great Office,
uses the power conferred on him TO advance
the interests Of his relatives and friends and
reduce and humilatc his imaginary political
enemies, the service must suffer propor-
tionately.
-Four years of Evansism in the Pension
Othce has resulted in the elimination of
every vestige Of the merit system that had
been patiently built up by his predecessors.
utter generalization and chaotic anarchy
mas taken the place of a perfect system
based on efficiency and industry. He had
hardly assumed the duties of office than he
began wholesale reduction of salaries and
dismissals from the service solely on par
tisan grounds Every Democrat in the
eastern division was either reduced or dis
missed--the same was true Of the other
divisions but not TO the same extent. This
unjust and illegal discrimination against
men on account Of their political Affiliations
has been pursued with unrelenting ferocitv
ever since. The result is what might be ex-
pected Evans favorites do no work. for
lhey know that It is not expected of them
The rest have grown careless and Indifferent
because they know that it will not be re-
warded. The spur of industry. security
ana nope of promotion no longer obtains
and the result is careless, sloveuly work
uEH NJ
The eastern division, discovered six hundred
errors in the work that passed through his
desk. This is astounding when we con-
sider that his section is an incousiderable
part OF this immense Office. Many section
chiefs like Shaw are too indoleut TO ever
look for an error hence they are either
passed along to some day arise and plague
the Office or detected by the Board of Re.
view and returned for correction. The CON
diton of this Office is deplorable. 1t IS a
burning, blisteriug shame and am everlast-
ing disgrace that it should exist another
day. Could the President realize how this
petty tyrant. this blind, stupid partisan
has wrecked am almost perfect system by
his injustice, oppression and favoritsm, he
would drive him out of the Pension Office
as Christ drove the money changers from
the temple
We have been expecting some change in
Evans conduct and his administration of
the office, but we have been disappointed.
He grows worse instead of better. It ap-
pears as if he was destined to be a victim of
the official AK The best clerks in the office.
some with large families TO support and
educate, are kept at the lowest salaries.
D.
purpose in life than to spend their easily
earned money in fancy dresses, that they
may the better fascinate their gallants are
advanced rapidly. Never before in the
history Of this country has a department of
our national government been prostituted
TO such base immoral and demoralized pur.
poses as under the present commissioner
Honesty and true patriotism are weighted
and hypocrisy and sycophancy commands
success. Industry, integrity and efficiency
are ignored, and Incidence, infamy and in.
are recognized and rewarded.
The best have gravitated to the bottom, the
worst have risen to the top, and the vile
have only been ousted by the viler.
Compare Evans character with the fol-
lowing description Of President Roosevelts
by Gen. Avery d. Andrews, who
was associated with him in the Police Conn
mission Of New York city,
"As a man Of strong convictions and high
he held tenaciously to certain
cardinal principles which he insisted should
be applied at all times in the management
Of the police, such as that appointments
and promotions should be on merit and
record alone; that all members of the force .
should be held to a strict performance of /
duty, and to scrupulous honesty and truth .
fuluess; of severe punishment for lapses
from duty and quick and generous rewards .
for service of unusual merit; of a complete .
separation of the police administration
from pardsanship based upon race, religion .
)r politics
Theodore Roosevelt has always possessed /
keen insight into human character and an .
ccurate judgment in the selection of his .
ldvisers and associates. He possesses TO a .
marked degree
Strength of limb and policy Of mind,
Ability In means and choice Of friends
sHe knows the kind of man he wants for
.ach position at his disposal and gets him