The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-03-20
THOUSANDS BEG RELIEF
May Rescind Civil Service Orders
so as to Throw $4,000 Jobs
on the Market
THE SPECIAL SESSION APRIL 7

cussed Much-The Question Before
the Democrats in Washington Is,
How to Get Jobs for the Hungry
Followers at Home-One Ken
lucky Congressman Says the Dem
Ocrats Must Have Jobs or His State
Will Go Republican-Ex-Spe
Cannon Gives Out Statement Show
ing Democrats Will Bankrupt Ma
tiOnal Treasury.
Especial to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. c., March 18, 1913.
President Wilson has issued his
proclamation calling Congress into
session on April 7th. This announce
ment of an extra session, however,
and the great and important matters
that will be taken up for considera-
ton, including the tariff and cur
rency reform, are not being discuss
ed much by the Democratic Congress-
men and politicians in Washington.
The great question before them day
and night is how to get jobs for the
hungry political henchmen at home,
many of whom are already camping
here at Washington, on their heels.
The President Shutting Out Office
Seekers.
Thousands of office-seekers came
to the inauguration intending to stay
until they got their jobs and went
home with them. The pressure from
them and their Congressman was so
terrific that the President was forced
to announce early that he would not
see any office-seekers, but that they
must present their claims before his
Cabinet officers. The pressure be-
fore the Cabinet officers since then
has been so great that already more
than one of them have declared that
they will not see hereafter any Of
fice-seekers.
Office-Seekers Attacking the Civil
Service.
Soon after the new Postmaster
General was inaugurated he an
nounced that those who were in office
under the civil service, whether DEM
ocrats or Republicans, would be pro-
tected. The pressure on the Post
master-General, however, has become
so great that to-day he has yielded
and has announced that he is in favor
of recinding the civil service orders
of President Taft, covering over 3d.
900 postmasters, and that Demo-
Gratis shall be given chance to Sc
cure these places through competi-
tive examinations.
1t is said that the Postmaster-Gen-
eral has been told by many Demo
cratic congressman that the Demo-
cratic party would go TO pieces if this
wasn't done. 1t is reported that one
Democratic Congressman from Ken
lucky said that at least three, if not
a majority of the districts of his
State, would go Republican at the
next election if the hungry Democrat
ic politicians were not given full
swing at the Federal pie-counter.
1t has been the habit of the Demo
cratic newspapers in North Carolina
and all the Southern States, when
the Republicans were in power, to de-
clare that the Republican party was
a party controlled by pie-hunters and
pie-eaters, and that the Democratic
party was a great idealistic party that
voted for high principles and was
not controlled by it's stomach and a
hunger for the "fiesh-pots of Egypt"
The fact is, that present situation in
Washington is the greatest stomach
and f1esh-pot demonstration that has
ever been seen in the history of this
Government.
Democrats Will Bankrupt the Ma
tiOnal Treasury.
A statement has just been issued
by ex-Speaker Cannon reviewing the
record of the last and several preced-
ing Congresses. He shows that the
Democratic Congress has done moth
ing that it promised to do, and has,
in fact, violated all of its campaign
pledges. He charges that the last
Democratic Congress was not only
the most extravagant Congress that
this country has ever seen, but that
it has spent money recklessly for sell
fish and for partisan purposes while
it has neglected the great and i'm
portant functions of government, in
Guiding the protection of the nation
itself.
He showed that the last Democratic
Congress spenimore than $s6,OOO'OOO
above any amount ever expended by
any Republican, or any other Con-
gress. He pointed out that every Re-
publican Congress had spent liber-
al amount necessary for maintaining
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