The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-16
President Taft Sends Out Strict Orders Regarding
 the Matter
ND POLITICAL MACHINE
 MUST BE BUILT UP
President Taft Directs Secretary NageI to Enforce the Instructions and That Dismissal From Service
 Is Penalty.

Beverly, Mass, August 15-In letter addressed today to Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor, President Taft served notice that any man engaged in the taking of the thirteenth census of the United States who engages in politics in any way will be dismissed immediately from the service. s. At the same time announcement was made of the appointment of 134 additional supervisors.
 Outside of casting their votes the Presi- dent believes that census supervisors and enumerators should keep clear of any thing that savers of politics, national state or local. In his letter President Taft orders that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the director of the cen sus embody in the regulations governing the taking of the census the rule so forci- bly, laid down in his letter.
 MT. Taft says that in appointing cen sus supervisors it has been found neces- sary to select men recommended by sen ators and congressman in their districts. He says he realizes that this method Of selection might easily be perverted to political purposes and 1t Is to take the census out of politics, so far as the actual work is concerned, that he has explicitly expressed his desire as to the rsgula- tions.
 Presidents Letter.
 President Taft has told representatives and senators that he would insist that no attempt be made to build up a political machine in any state or district through the distribution of the census patronage. IL
 Beverly, Mass. August IA, 1909. My Dear MT. Secretary: The taking of the census involves the appointment of some 300 supervisors. who, in turn, are to appoint many times that number of enum- orators. The supervisors are given com- plete discretion in the selection of enum- orators, respectively, to act under them. The success of the census will depend upon the efficiency and strict attention to duty Of the supervisors and upon the intelligence of the enumerators and their faithful application to the business in hand.
 Generally, there Is a supervisor for each congressional district. It has been found to be the quickest and best means of selecting suitable supervisors to con-
 
 competent candidates for their respective districts and states.
 This system can easily be perverted to political purposes If the supervisors are not forbidden to use 1t as an instru- ment for influencing local and general elections and primaries in the interest of particular candidates or parties. It Is not an unreasonable requirement that any one who accepts an appointment as supervisor or as enumerator shall, during the term Of his employment and service, avoid an active participation in politics.
 T. therefore. order that in the prepara- tion of regulations for the taking of the census you and the director of the cen sus embody therein a provision that any supervisor or enumerator whose uses in- f1uences with subordinates or colleagues to assist any party any candidate in a primary or general election, or who takes any part, other than merely casting his vote, in politics. national. state or local. either by service upon political com mittee, by public addresses, by the solic- tation of votes or otherwise shall at oncs be dismissed from the service.
 T wish to make this regulation as broad as possible and wish 1t enforced without exception. It Is of the highest importance that the census should be taken by men having only the single purpose of reaching a just and right re- suit and that the large amount of money to be expended in the employment of so vast machine as the census shall not be made to serve the political purposes of anyone. Sincerely yours,
 WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, 'Hon. Charles Nagel. Secretary of Com merce and Labor
 The President and Captain Butt. his aide, attended the Unitarian church this morning and listened to a sermon by tho Rev. Samuel A. Eliot of Cambridge. The subject of his sermon was The Uses of Adversity."
 Supervisors Announced.
 The census supervisors announced to- day were as follows:
 Arkansas-First district, George Thom-. as Breckenridge; Second district, Charles G. Henry; Third district. Elisha E. Ann mons; Fourth district, Robert T. White; Fifth district. Tom D. Brooks Sixth dis trict, John W. Howell; Seventh district, Samuel Rogers Young.
 Georgia-First district, Francis Xavier Douglass; Second district, Eugene Leigh Rainey; Third district. George Ernest Hickey; Fifth district. Alonzo M. Brand; Sixth district Charles Akerman; Seventh district Louis Hanley Crawford; Eighth district Willis Beauregard Adams; Ninth district T. R. Allen; Tenth district, Jo- seph N. Lee; Eleventh district, Alex ander P Perham, g..
 Iouisiana-First district, John A. wo- gan; Second district. Walter Y. Kom- per: Third district, Raymond Thurston Clark; Fourth district George T. Riley; Fifth district, Charles Henry Trousdale; Sixth district, Orin Medicus Grisham.
 Mississippi-First district. Samuel D. Chamberlain; Third district, William A. Shelby; Fourth district, James E. Lan- drum: Sixth district, Nathan Vanboddie; Eighth district, James B. Yellowly.
 North Carclina-First district, Josiah Q. Meelkins. Sr.; Second district, James M. Newborn: Third district, H. Frank Brown; Fourth district. William Claudius Pear