Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-11-22
The Civil Service.

The Civil Service.
Whatever else may be considered
among the permanent results of the re-
cent campaign, the gripping of civil
service reform must be so accounted.
1t may not be wounded past all sur
gerry, but it is badly wounded Presi-
dent Roosevelt is civil service re-
former of high degree-that is, he was,
but circumstances alter cases. Never
before did cabinet members take such
an active part in campaign. For
months every one of them capable of
making fetching stump speech was
prowling about going to and fro, if not
seeking whom he might devour, seek
ing votes for his chief. OF course ev
erybody is aware that cabinet mem
hers are not under the civil service
rules and law, technically speaking, but
everybody with two ideas above a
Hottentot is also aware of the fact
/ that there is no difference in principle
| between a cabinet officer being PERM
ciously active in partisan politics and
one of his underlings doing the same
thing. How can 1t be Objectionable for
500 clerk or $500 janitor to whoop
it up in his small way for his party,
while it is commendable i'll cabinet
minister to cut the same caper? Here
after when the civil service reformers
begin to enlarge upon their own supe-
rtor virtues somebody ought to jog
their memories as to the doings of this
civil service reform administration.
King Edward seems to have aroused
some adverse criticism by his determi-
nation not to hold court in Scotland
and Ireland. His reasoning is that II
he holds court outside of England at
all he cannot confine such functions to
Ireland and Scotland, but must also
extend them to the other states Of the
British empire, which would be incon-
venient, If not impossible.
Some Ill advised newspapers are pre-
dieting that Mr.. Secretary Of State
Hays description Of the Democratic
party as "a fortuitous concourse Of un-
related prejudices" will live in our
vernacular. They are badly mistaken
There is too much Of 1.-THE words are
too long If man wants a designa-
ton Of person or party to live and
stick, he must make it short, such as
"know nothing etc.
"Wha+'s in name?" asked Shake
speare. A good deal, William, a goot
| ua11 70 I,a mr.
: particular, Joseph Hell-has just beel
: arrested in New York for disturbin.
the peace by appearing in public with
out a hat. Guess to use DR.. Park
bursts lingo. it was "Hell with thu
lid off" At least that is the view
taken by the Washington Post.
q 4 It's a neck and neck race between
!. President Harper of the Chicago uni
q versity and President E. Benjamin An
;. drews of the University Of Nebraska
4 as to which can stand in the glare o
g the limelight longest and oftenest. d.
!. Harper's latest bid is that theologica
! seminaries do not teach theology col
y rectly, and President Andrews chip
|
n western students work harder tina
q eastern students. 1t will be well t
n remember that President Andrews wa
4 once president Of Brown and is no.
e president Of the Nebraska university.
d Some patience ought to be exercise
a toward the rantankerous statesme
; down In Panama, when it is taken int
Re consideration that they have had a
a awful dose Of Minister John Barrett
r. That garrulous and egotistical person
e age is enough to provoke Quake
Y meeting to get up riot. Why he
It Kept in the public service is myster,
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