Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-04
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BY II. = WALKER
MARITIME ON CIVIL SERVICE
Star staff Correspondent.
Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.

Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON, Sept. A.
Senator MARITIME has decided views
as to civil service.
IF this civil service proposition of
examination were carried out here in
the Senate" he told that dignified
body the other day, Il think that it
would be comparatively a small per-
centage of us who would be able to
pass. 1 think, in the college phrase.
we would funk. | believe it is pos
sible for us to have good and effl-
cient service in the internal revenue
service in the postoffice department,
ard in all the other branches of the
government, without being compelled
to go through the process OF the civil
service. l think there Is an INFINITE
amount of truth in the thought ad-
vanced here that young men or young
women from high schools would pass
most f1ippantly and glibly an exami-
nation where others who, for forty
or fifty years of our lives, have been
fairly successful in the transaction
of business, who have led honest and
sober lives. would find it impossible
to pass l do not believe that the
public service of our country would
be enhanced if that system is pressed
any further.
shire, told MARITIME that the latter
would not appoint anybody to jobs
but Democrats. This dialogue then
ensued:
MR.. MARTINEZ am Democrat.
1 believe in the dogmas and prin-
ciples of my party. l cannot make
nv government a success by INSTALL
ing New Hampshire Republicans.
MR.. GALLINGER-But the Sena-
tor from New Jersey has conscience
that does not go beyond appointing
Democrats to office.
MIR. MARTINE-Well my con-
science is a pretty fair one.
MR.. GALLINGER-It is rather
elastic.
MIR. MARTINE-By general aver
age throughout the width and breadth
of the land [ believe in years gone
by the Democratic conscience made
| good government for this fair land,
| and l believe that the Democratic
conscience can be trusted today to do
Justice to the people of this land and
| to advance and glorify the principles
| of the Democratic party which have
been ratified, and of which Woodrow
| Wilson today is the chief exponent.
MIR. GALLINGER-Tha is very
Il.
ator from New Jersey in the posi-
! ton of being unwilling to appoint a
man to office who is not a Demo-
| crat.
| MR.. MARITIME might take you
| in a pinch, but l venture to say I
will be as liberal as the Senator from
New Hampshire.
MIR. GALLINGER-Oh no.
MR.. MARTINFs-Tell me how many
| Democrats, dyedin- the-wool, real,
genuine Democrats, not make believe
ones, the Senator has been the means
of installing.
| MIR. GALLINGER-I have recon-
mended the appointment of quite a
number of positions to which I
thought them entitled"
| MIR, MARTINE-It would be I'M
generous not to take the Senators
word for it.
Here's a little Illustration Of the
Republican idea of a protective tariff
| that cropped out in the Senate de-
bate the other day:
Bedspreads are woven by the mile,
Just like sheets or other fabrics. Then
| they are cut into lengths or patterns
and sold by the piece. Instead of a
tariff on yard or mile basis, like
other fabrics, the present tariff puts
duty of so much apiece on them
The Underwood bill fixe the tariff
by the yard.
protection is dead" announced the
master of a Western State grange
the other day. 1T neve' did the
farmer any good but only furnished
q pretext for rebbing him. Instead
of bowling for protection for them
| selves, the farmers of the country
would better get on the job now and
demand that the manufacturers be
put on the same basis with them
I Suppose a Newark manufacturer
said 81 can't make my business pay
If / have to quit, men will lose theil
Jobs, but if you'll give me &c.,
a year out of the city treasury ant
put it in the tax levy, I'll go on doinl
business and will be able to pay m,
hands and make some money for my
SELF"
How many Newark taxpayers would
agree to this proposition?
But that's exactly what we've beel