The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-16
NO POLITICS IN THE CENSUS Taft Issues an Emphat-
 ic Order. HIS LETTER TO NAGEL President Is Firm in His lnstruc-
 tions. win Not Permit Perverzss- q tns Pub ne serviee--rIas Co.aerease at Beverly with Cusa.
 Diplomat.

eooreSseu too8y 10 oecrepaFy NaBei or the Department of Commerce and La- bor, President Taft served notice that any man engaged in the taking of the thirteenth census of the United States 5 who engages in politics in any way will be dismissed immediately froni>the service.
 At the same time annouhcement was made of the appointment of fs4 addi- tional supervisors.
 Outside of casting their votes the President believes that census super visors and enumerators should keep clear of anything that savers of poii- tics, national, state or local4 In his letter President Taft orders that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and the Director of the Census embody in the regulations governing. the taking of the census the rule so forcibiy laid down in his letter.
 Mr. Taft says that ip appointing cen- sus supervisors it has been found nec- sssary to select men recommended by senators and Congressman in their dis trtcts. 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 l, far as the actual work is concerned, that he has explicitly expressed his de- Rires as to the regulations
 President's Letter. President Taft has told Representa- lives and Senators that he would insist that no attempt be made to build up . political machine in any State or dis trict through the distribution of the census appointments.
 The Presidents letter in full follows:
 Beverly, Mass. August IA, 1909. My dear MT. Secretary:
 The taking of the census involves the appointment of some 300 supervis- ors. who. in turn are to appoint many times that number of commentators. The supervisors are given complete discre- ton in the selection of enumerators re- spectivelx to act under theni
 'The saccees of the census will de- pend upon the ef1iciepcy and strict at- tention to the duty of supervisors and the inteniGepce of the enunaeratcrs and their faithfai appnca4ion to the s business i5sthand.
 ~seneraily. there is e supervisor for each Congressional District. IL has been found to bel the quick est and best means of selecting suitable supervisors to consult the >Congressmen and Sena- tors as to competent candidates for their respective districts and States.
 This system can easily be pervert- ed to political purposes if the super visors are not forbidden to use 1t as an instrument for influencing local and general elections and primaries in the interest of particular candidates or parties. Itlis not an unreasonable ro- quirement that any one who accepts an appointment as supervisor or as enumerator shall. during the term of his employment aAd service. avoid an active purpose in politics.
 T therefore order that in the prep aration, of the regulations for the talk ing of the census, you and the Director of the Census embydy therein a pro- vision that any supervisor or enumer- ator who uses his influences with his subordinates or colleagues to assist any party, or any candidate In a primary or general election, or who takes any part other than merely casting his ! vote. In politics, National, State or To- cal, either by service upon political committAe, by public addresses. by the solicitation of votes, or otherwise, shall at once be dismissed from the ser vice.
 T wish to make this regulation as broad as possible, and wish 1t enforced without exception. It is of the high-' est importance that the census should be taken by men having only the sim gle purpose of reaching a just and right result, and that the large amount of money to be expended in the em- ployment of so vast machine as the census shall not be made to serve the political purposes of anyone.
 sincerely yours
 William Howard Taft.S '.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 the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot of Cam bridge, Mass.
 The subject of his sermon was The Uses of Adversity."
 List of Supervisors.
 The census supervisors announced today were as follows:
 Arkansas--First District, George Thomas Breckinrldge; Second Districta Charles c. Henry; Third District, Eli sha E.. Ammons; Fourth District, Rob- >ert T. White; Fifth District. Tom D. Brooks; Sixth District, John w. How ell; Seventh District, Samuel Rogers Young.
 Georgia-First District, Francis xa- vier Douglass; Second District, Eugene Leigh Rainey; Third District, George Ernest Rickey; Fifth District, Alonzo M. Brand; Sixth District. ChaTfes Ak erman; Seventh District. Louis Hanley Crawford; Eighth District, Willis Beau regard Adams; Ninth District, T. R. Allen; Ninth District, Joseph N. Lee: Eleventh District, Alexander P. Per. ham, ST.
 Louisiana-First District, John. A. wogan; Second District, Walter Y. Komper; Third District Raymond Thurston >Clark; Fourth District Geo. T. Kelley; Fifth District, Charles Hem ry Truesdale; Sixth District, orin Med icus Grisham. ~-
 Mississippi-Ftrst District, Samuel D. Chamberlain; Third District, William A. Shelby; Fourth District, James E. Landrum; Sixth District, Nathan Van Boddie; Eighth District, James B. Yell lowly.
 North Carolina-First District Josiah c. Meekins, Sr.; Second District James M. Newborn; Third District, H. Frank Brown; Fourth District w. A. Clau- dius Pearson; Sixth District, Irwin E. Tucker; Seventh District. A Turner Grant. IT,; Ninth District. J. Yaes XII. lin.
 South Carolina--First District Will liam J. Storen; Second District, Geo. Warehouse; Third District William Walker Russell; Fifth District Rob. ert LeRoy Douglas.
 President Taft talked over the Cu- ban situation for over an hour this af- ternoOn with Carlos Garcia VeIez. inc islands minister to Washington. Mr velez sought the appointment with the