The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-09-27

the SAID Board OF Police commas
sioners, and may be removed by the
said Board of Police Commissioners for
official misconduct or inefficiency and
then only after written charges pre-
ferred specifying the time, place and
character of such misconduct and
inefficiency, and trial had before the
Board of Police Commissioners, after
reasonable notice thereof" Laws of
1900, oh. Is, sec. 745F By sec. asa
of the same law the Police Examiners
are required to make oath that they
will not under any pretext make NOM
nations for appointment or promotion
for or on account of the religious or po-
litical opinions or affiliations of the
person nominated by them, or for any
other cause or reason than the fitness
of such person in the best judgment of
the examiners.
In what we have said we do not
wish 10 be understood as approving
this civil service system. The merits
or dement's of that system are not
under consideration. When they are
We shall not hesitate TO say just what
we think on the subject We have re-
ferred to the laws to show how empty
and devoid of meaning the Republican
p atform is when it blandly promises
to secure something that has been al
ready secured and secured in spite Of
that party's refusal to secure it when
it had the power and opportunity, and
was strenuoGsly urged, To secure il.
If the Republican party "lciH bring
the iocU control Of schools in the coun-
ties near to the school district and net
rcn'ore from partisan politics." it is
singular that the same party did not
do this very commendahle Thing when
it had the chance to do it in 1865 and
again in 1S9S The local control of
the schools is much rearer the school
district than ii was under the Repub-
lican school system of 1866 And if it
could yet any nearer than it is now,
the Republican Legislature of 1898
could have put it nearer # it hal wish
ed to do so. Before the local control of
the public schools can be rcmOrcd from
partisan politics that local control
must be under the domiuion Of par
tisan politics \ thing caunot tie re-
moved from Nhere it is not located.
So the promise to make the removal
includes the assert on that the local
cDutrol ofthe schools in the counties is
subject t. partisan politics. That is a
grave charge, bur unhappily for the
accu>ers it is not true. We contine
our observations to this county because
we are not familiar with the condi-
tons elsewhere. 1t is perfectly we'll
known that the school system in tt.is
county is entirely free from parts IN
politics. We do the Republicans of
the county the credit to say thai when
they had majority of the School
Commissioners they retained a Demo-
Democrats have come into the major
ity they have retained Republican as
Assistant Examiner We have been
Informed that the majority of the
teachers are Republicans, but we are
quite sure teachers p 1litical views
have nothing to do with his selection.
If, a we assert, the schools of this
county are now under the dominion of
part san politc s it will be impossible to
remove them from partisan politics,
and any change would, Of course, be a
change resulting from putting the
schools IN partisan politics. No Dem
ocrat wants that to be done, and we
believe no fair-minded Repub lean de-
sires it. There is no meaning in the
platform pledge when we consider the
conditions existing in this county, and
the pledge was thrown into the plat
form merely to catch votes