The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-22

Cdle. IL tHcy are leu lllO 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 been
one of the radical Taft papers, has
discovered hat 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
u%lations of the government service
should terminate in seven years.
This, of course, was an un%derhanded
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 seven years, whether they had
There could have been but one pur-
pose in this move by the democratic
party, and that was to increase the
would have been open for political
trafficking. 1t would not have been
too early to begin in the present COM
pdISH plOIilISiuS lllpIl III exchange
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
a~bolishing the interstate commerce
court. 1t was approved by boil
branches of congress largely becaus,
that court hA in nearly every cas-,
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 create,
\ court to deliberately set aside tn
g relief granted by the commission at
ter exhaustive inquiries of com
plants, was enough to offend publ
sentiment. Indeed it was so flagran
an example of arbitrary judicial act
: ion that it brought out a sharp re
a buke from the United States suprem
d court. Following that report, it j
@ not likely the commerce court will b
O so ready to undo the work of tn
s commerce commission. Therefor
it's capacity for doing harm has bee
greatly reduced, for the highest cour
S has pointedly instructed it that
can review only questions of law i
the decisions of the commission
8 Since then not enough time ha
elapsed to give the cou,
a new trial to find If it's operatio
will be more satisfactory. At al
events the burden of proof is certain
ly with the new court, and Taft man
S tests an amazing faith in the exper
ment in his loyalty to that tribuna
r No mi will regret it if the court
$ abolished, Notwithstanding it ma
O result in greater delays in the settle
ment of complaints brought agains
g the railroad companies.
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