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will no doubt create more or less of a
disturbance, but it will not matter
so much as their noise might indi-
cate. II they are led into opposition
to the party, they will be recognized
by all as anti-republican.
But already there are signs that
they will not dare go so far. A con-
siderable part of those at the Huron
conference of Taft followers, led by
DIR. Dundas of this city, expressed
themselves most emphatically against
going over to the democratic party.
The Aberdeen News, which has beer
one of the radical Taft papers, has
discovered that it was being put in a
position of opposition to all the state
ticket and every county ticket and
it has lately indicated that all the
rest of the ticket ought to be sup
ported, regardless of the attitude
taken toward the electors.
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TAFT'S LATEST VETO.
Taft's veto of the budget" appro-
priation bill was warranted by the
provisional incorporated in it by the
democrats that the civil service reg
ulations of the government service
should terminate in seven years.
This, of course, was an underhanded
blow at the civil service system. 1t
meant, if approved, that the heads
of departments could depose any en-
ployes under them after the expira-
ton of sever years, whether they had
a good and sufficient reason or not.
There could have been but one pur-
pose in this move by the democratic
party, and that was to increase the
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would have been open for political
trafficking. 1t would not have been
too early to begin in the present com
for political support. 1t was the most
brazen attempt to substitute the
spoils system for the merit system
since the establishment of civil ser.
vice, and it goes far to show the
ideals of the democratic party in thi.
campaign.
The other provision in the measure
to which Taft objected is the one
abolishing the interstate commerce
court. 1t was approved by botf
branches of congress largely becaus,
that court haA in nearly every cas-,
t found for the railroad companies il
appeals from the interstate commerc,
commission. 1t is generally recogniz
ed that the commerce commission il
for better qualified to pass upol
questions of rates than is the com
, merce court. For the newly created
court to deliberately set aside tn,
. relief granted by the commission al
ter exhaustive inquiries of com
2 plants, was enough to offend publ
sentiment. Indeed it was so flagran
t an example of arbitrary judicial act
ion that it brought out a sharp re
/, Duke from the United States suprem
1 court. Following that report, it i
not likely the commerce court will b
, so ready to undo the work of tn
commerce commission. Therefor
> it's capacity for doing harm has bee
: greatly reduced, for the highest cour
has pointedly instructed it thai j
: can review only questions of law il
| the decisions of the commission
Since then not enough time ha
!. elapsed to give the cour
a new trial to find if it's operatiol
t will be more satisfactory. At al
t events the burden of proof is certain
ly with the new court, and Taft mani
) tests an amazing faith in the expert
ment in his loyalty to that tribunal
= No II will regret it if the court i
!, abolished, notwithstanding it ma,
, result in greater delays in the settle
ment of complaints brought agains
the railroad companies.
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