The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02
ROOSEVELT'S ABUSE
OF THE CIVIL sERvICE--w0RDs
 vS, DEEDS.
Acts of President Roosevelt Which Re- flute His PrOfessions of Fidelity
 to Civil Service Reform.

than has President Roosevelt concern ing the qualifications for public office and the duty of appointing officers 10 disregard considerations other than those of fitness and capacity. No President since the civil war has, in practice, fallen so far, in these respects. below the standards asserted by him self. The following are merely a few illustrations and are typical of many others which could be cited.
 suspending the Civil Service Law and
 Rules.
 The following shows the number Of times the Presidents named suspen led the civil service law and rules in or der to make personal appointments: President Cleveland (both terms) None President Harrison q. .......... None President Mckinley ...Three Times President R00neveit...... Sixty Ifmcs
 "It was a remarkable circumstance that during President Roosevelts in- cumbency a larger number of irregular appointments to the classified service were made than in the entire term of his predecessors It was un- fair to the men and women who. acting on the good faith of the government. had incurred the trouble and expense of getting their names on the eligible list Post, April Is. lsUi.
 The following are few of the acts and omissions of President Roosevelt which are inconsistent with his decla- ration that the record of every public offlcer should be "as clean as hounds tooth:"
 Byrne, William M. thrice appointed United States District Attorney for Delaware and subsequently Assistant United States District Attorney for New York. Byrne had been a leader of the Republican opponents of the no- torious Addicks and, as such, was ap- pointed District Attorney by President Mckinley. Subsequently he deserted the more decent division of his party and went over to the Addicks faction. becoming Addicks's candidate for Con- gress and resigning his position in or- der to make the canvass. After his defeat at the polls he was reappointed by President Roosevelt to his old posi- tion. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate reported against his confrma- ton. The Senate refusing to confirm him. he was reappointed during the next session and after a second refusal nlent under which he served for some time. Removing later to New York City he was soon made Assistant Uni ted States District Attorney for New York and is now serving in that .capac- ity. MT. Leupp, the Presidents cx- ceedingly friendly biographer. says that "Byrne was a Catholic and could talk to his fellow believers as no Pro- testant could" and that he had greatly pleased the President" by improving "the opportunity offered by his elec- tioneering activities to explain and ie- fend the governments policy" Post master General Payne explained that the President was only treating Ad- dicks to the same recognition accord ed to other heads of regular party or- ganizations.
 Clarkson, James S., appointed Sur veyor of the port of New York. His principal duty in that office seems to have oeen to aid in securing the Pres- ldent's nomination for another term. Mfr. Leupp declares in his biography of the President, that Clarkson had al- ways been a rank opponent of the mer- It system" but had a large acquaint- ance among the negroes" which, 1t is Iair to assume" might be made use- eul." ~s .e
 While a member of the Civil Service Commission. President Roosevelt, in g. public address, referred to Clarkson as follows:
 The Civil Service Commission Is most undoubtedly hostile to MT. Clark Ton and the ideas which MT. Clarkson represents. We should fail in our auty if we were not. We can no more retain the good will of the spoilsmen than a policeman who does his duty san retain the good will of the law breaker he and his friends believe that if they cannot get the offices the party ought to disband That Is to say. he and his friends be- Iieve that they ought to be paid for supporting the party. That sounds like harsh way of putting 1t, but 1t Is a perfectly just way. There is a certain difference between being paid with an office and being paid with money, exactly as there is a certain difference between the savagery Of an, Ashantee and that of a Hottentot, but 1t Is small in amount"
 Good Govrnment," in its issue for May, 1902, said. editorially:
 MT. Clarkson has been in practice and In profession, in public and private life. a conspicuous, offensive and un- scrupulous enemy of the merit system
 McMichael. Clayton D.. appointed postmaster at Philadelphia to succeed an independent Republican who had supported the antI-machine candidates for municipal offices, and retained after he had admitted that he had unjustlY and for political reasons discriminate against and rejected for appointment no less than seventy-six persons who had passed the civil service examina- ton and had been certified to him in the legal way MT. McMichael has long been a conspicuous adherent of the notoriously corrupt and vicious Re- publican machine in Philadelphia. and has openly conducted his office in its interest.
 Murray. Joseph (commonly known as 'Ioe" Murray), appointed Assistant Commissioner of Immigration ut the port of Ssw York. On January IS. 1902. President Roosevelt issued the following order suspending one uf the civil service rules:
 An appointment to the vacancy now existing in the position of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, port of Mow York, may be made without exam ination under the civil service rules" "
 Murray. who could scarcely have passed an examination, was appointed under the foregoing and there IS no doubt that 1t was issued for hls bene- 1t. According to Mir. Leupp, Murray Is "a New York Republican ward worker" who Introduced in a partisan organization a resolution which seemed 10 reflect upon the honorable conduct Of the United States Civil Service Com mission" when President Roosevelt was a member of it, but possesses the cx- ceptional and especial merit of having taught the President his first lessons in practical politics.
 Good Government" declares that there is much" in the career of Mur- ray ito justify the opinion that he is distinctly below the standard" which the merit system has established.
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