The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-11
WILL HOLD JOBS
Wilson Notifies Senate Regard
ing Republican Officials.
No Custer Until End of Their
Terms.
NOT DISTURB CIVIL SERVICE
But Taft Appointments Not
Confirmed.
These Will Have to Vacate
Offices March 4.
NOT DISTURB CIVIL SERVICE

Washington, D. c., Feb. 11.-PreS1-
dent-elect Wilson has sent word to
members of the senate that he VIII
make no clean sweep of Republican
office holders after March merely for
the sake of furnishing hungry Demo-
Gratis with jobs.
The general policy will be to allow
Republican office holders to serve out
the terms for which they were ap-
pointed. He will disturb none so long
as they conduct their offices efficiently
and live up to the requirements of good
behavior.
This news will bring much joy to
the federal office holders throughout
Kansas. On the other hand it will
bring sadness to several hundred hum
CRY job-hunterS.
Many Democrats have been proceed
| ing the theory that as soon as
! March arrives there will be a clean
| ing out of the Republicans all along
| the line. But Governor Wilson has set
down hard on this notion.
| The question of the general attitude
| of Governor Wilson when he becomes
chief-executive towards the employees
| in the civil service, though d1stlnct
from the question of what course will
be taken towards officeho1ders not un-
! der civil service, is also being mucn
discussed about the capitol.
All of the information that has come
| tc senators and members of the Louise
| is that Governor Wilson intends to be
| scrupulously obServant OF the letter
and the spirit of the civil service law.
This means that the tens of thousands
| of government employees are not going
| to be disturbed.
| Wilson. according to information
given his friends in congress, is not
hunting for chances to bestow patr on on
age. On the contrary, ne rellzes tne
Z ir1.c a
asset He will make no more ap-
.pointments than the demands of good
| gOVernm require, and IN making
| these he IS not going to be in undue
haste.
Thousands of postmasters all over
the country will hold on undisturbed. d.
and SO will narsha1s, attorneys, and
| many other officials.
| There are now pending in the SEN
| ate nearly 100 Kansas postmasterS'
nominations. These are included in a
| list of nearly 2,5OO nominations sent
| in by President Taft since the opening
| of the present session of congress-
! Not single Kansas nomination has
| vet been confirmed, and, furthermore,
| it is not likely that any number of
| them will be before the hour that this
present congress dies, March A.
| The Democrats, with assistance of
| the Progressive senator's, have caused
a perfectly good deadlock to be estab-
| lished on all of Taft's political ap-
| pointme entS.
The rule of letting Republicans hold
on WILL of course, not apply to cases
| where the terms are not fixed by law.
| Thus diplomatic officers, assistant
| secretaries in the departments, assist
ant attorney generals and collectors
! of revenue, whose tenure is indefinite,
| are likely to be supplanted any time by
| Democrats.
| One of the reasons why senate DEM
| ocrats are working SO hard to prevent
| the confirmation of Republican ap-
| pointments is that they are aware of
/ the Wilson program. And, inasmuch
| as it is estimated that about $500 ap-
pointments pending before the senate
are hung up, involving something like
| 81, 600 900 a year in salaries, it is plain
/ this is an item worth considerat ton.
! Senator Bristow is one of the pro-
gressive Republican senators aiding
the Democrats in blocking Republican
or may not figure with Senator-eIect
Thompson, in dispensing Kansas pa
tronage during the balance of his term,
| is yet to be seen.
| President Wilson strongly intimates
it is his intention to take care' of
progressive Republican senators who
render aid to his administra ton. If
! Senator Bristow supports the Wilson
policies, there is no doubt that he will
| share equally in the Kansas patronage.
A recent order of the postmaster gen.
| eraI changing the site of the postoffice
| at Cassidy, Butler county, Kan, has