The Alaska daily empire., 1912-12-18
No Dollar Diplomacy.

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 No Dollar Diplomacy.
 Bryan would be in touch with every nation. He knows the great diplomats of the world and is rated as a great statesman in Europe and other coun- tries. We would not get peace among nations by the Roosevelt, the Taft or the Carnegie plan, but would build up. on the irmer foundation of fair treat. ment. The day of the dollar diDlo. macy would pass. We would not have to buy our way to the heart of for eign peoples"
 The Bryan administration, if he is Secretary of State, will be directed, 1t is said, toward bringing out friendly relations with the South American countries to counteract the i'll will that President Roosevelt aroused by his dealing with the Columbians in getting the Panama Canal.
 A great fight is being made against Mir. Bryan. His enemies are appeal. ing to Gov. Wilson not to offer Bryan the position of Secretary Of State In- deed, they would keep him out of the altogether.
 
 Backed by o'eOrman.
 It is said that Senator o'Gorman, ot New York, is one of the advocates of Mir. Bryan's appointment and the Democratic policy as outlined here. He opposed the Taft treaties. The man quoted above added:
 "The Democratic policy will be for peace, but at the same time no treaty that does not recognize the equality of all of our citizens, irrespective of race or creed, and which does not expressly guarantee the fundamental right of repatriation will be sane tioned.
 "The constitutional rights of Amer ican citizens should protect them on our foreign borders and go with them throughout the world, and every American citizen residing or having in any foreign country is en- titled to and must receive the full protection of the United States gov. ernment, both for himself and his property"
 That is the policy that will be car. rled out, his friends assert, if Mir. Bryan is Secretary of State.
 Under Civil Service.
 President Taft's recent order ex. tending the civil service to the navy yard employees, embraces toolmakers, electricians, stonecutter, machinists, masons, mouIders, ordnance men, plumbers, and others.
 It is said that the order will not dis place any employees. Civil Service officials predict the emancipation from political or personal coercion of the navy yard people"
 The order must become effective not later than June 30 next. It af- fleets all navy yard employees ex. cept common laborers, The present occupants of positions may be classi- fed upon their efficiency being certi- fed. The new regulations provide for competitive examination and that dis trlct secretaries of the Civil Service Commission shall be members of the various labor boards.
 President Tafts order will have the effect of giving the employees the status they had from 1896 to 1909. The order continues the meritsystem pre- scribed by Congress in 1872, which was, with subsequent notifications, enforced in an executive order by  President Cleveland in 1896. For thirteen years from that date 1t was supposed classification had been ac- complished. In 1909, however, the Attorney.General held that navy yard employees employed under the regu- lations had not been classified, but could be classified by the President by modifying or revoking the navy yard regulations. Since that time rep representatives of the Navy Depart. ment and the Civil Service Commis- sion have had under consideration such qualifications as would permit the classification of navy yard em- ..1....z