Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-13
PARTISANSHIP
KEEPS WORLD
WAR MAN OUT
Soldier Making Higher Aver
age Put Aside for Party
Worker.
By WALLACE BAssFORD.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The Demo
Gratis thought they had it firmly i'm
bedded in the law that preference in
appointments in the Governmental serv-
ice should be given to men who served
in the World War, not merely as al
appreciation of their patriotic service but
to aid in compromising for business dis
advantages suffered through their alb
sence from their accustomed walk of
life President Wilson approved the law
with his signature and upfeld it in prac-
tice, as well as the civil service law pro-
viding for the selection of the person
making the highest rating in the ex-
animation. Almost as soon as Mr. Hard
ing become President he issued an order
rendering it unnecessary to name the per
son making the highest rating, and then
proceeded, through his subordinates, to
put the law as to former service men
in the discard
Numerous cases have occurred where the
former service man was refused the ap-
pointment though he had shown q higher
rating in the examination than the one
receiving the appointment. One of these
cases occurred in the Congressional
bailiwick Of the late Mr.. Flood Of Vir-
ginia. At the town of Bremo Bluff a
vacancy was to be filed in the rural car.
rier service and an examination was held
under the civil service law, in which a
man named Seay, who fought in France,
made the grade of $40, but n man
named Glass, a Republican who had
devoted his time to politics while Seay
was in France, making a grade of 1850,
got the job. Mr.. Flood took up the cud-
gels for the ex-sOldier, but the fourth
assistant postmaster general informed
him that he had information tending to
show that Glass was the better fitted for
the work. OF course, this merely meant
that the Republican boss or referee" had
named Glass. Mr.. Flood, thinking that
4 man who could round up German SOL
diers in the Argonne could handle the
rural route job, wrote to the fourth as
sistant. concluding with this paragraph
Il want to say to you frankly that the
only conclusion I can reach is that Glass
was appointed because he was a Re
publican and Seay a Democrat Under
this Republican Administration we may
have to submit to the disregard of their
rights, but we do not intend 10 submit
quietly"
Only a year or so ago the Republicans
were talking Of impeaching President
Wilson for refusing to abrogate thirty
odd commercial treaties at the command
Of the Republican Congress In the Jones
bill. President Harding said in his mes
sage that it would cause a highly cha
Otic condition to abrogate them. Another
yindication of the Democratic President
Congressman Wood Of Indiana is a tall
spare, clean-shaven man of good ability
one of the Republican leaders in the
House. If he isn't an elder in the church
he at least looks like one, but he used
a very emphatic word in the House the
other day, and when his remarks were
handed him for revision he didn't change
a letter in them. Here il is: Il am only
speaking the truth when / say that the
people Of this country employed in every
vocation and in every character Of bust
ness are giving this Congress hell. They
art doing 1t because we have done moth
ing to stimulate business. They are do
ing It because we have done nothing 10
give employment to the unemployed.
They are doing it because re have lone
nothing TO benefit the farmer aud stimu-
late the price OF the farmers products 4"