The Delta independent., 1924-01-18
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
PAMPHLET OMlTS WILSON
CIVIL SERVICE SCANDALS


Service-Clean or Corrupt" The
mister. 1t is addressed to the women
of the country.
1t has a foreword which purports to
give the reason the pamphlet is is
sued. This foreword charges the Re-
publican administration with breaking
down civil service, and it states that
! in order that the women may know the
facts "and that opportunity may be af-
forded women to study and compare
the trend of happenings during the
last few years, the Democratic nation
al committee has paralleled the rec
ords of the last Democratic and Re-
publican administrations in the matter
of UNFOLDING the civil service law of
the land, and presents this pamphlet
with the hope that it may serve to
stimulate all women to a fuller reali-
cation OF their own share of RESPONSE
biity in settling this important ques-
ton"
The pamphlet does nothing it's fore
word promises to do. 1t does not pre-
sent the record of the Wilson Demo
cratic administration in relation to
civil service. 1t does not present the
record of the Republican administra-
ton in relation to civil service.
1t dare not print the record of the
Democratic administration under
President Wilson's personal guidance,
and it's alleged record of the Republi-
can administration is nothing but
rehash of libelous yarns which have
been circulated about Washington by
Democratic scandalmongers for the
past two years.
The pamphlet makes the following
assertion: 1.-THE Democratic policy I'm.
der Woodrow Wilson was: % To
strengthen civil service, (b) to extend
civil service, (c)) to establish civil
service on a firmer basis" This is
an unwarranted falsehood made know
ingly and for the purpose of deceiv-
ing the women of the country. The
following are the facts, which the
pamphlet written by Marion Banister
did not publish, and which it dare not
publish:
% When President Wilson took
his office there were $4,000 fourth
class postmasters in the United States
under civil service. One of the earl
lest acts of President Wilson was to
rape the civil service law by ordering
denominations of all postmasters in
office. with the result that at the
close of his administration $4,000 of
the $4,000 of these postmasters were
Democrats.
(2) When President Wilson took
his office the rural route mail carriers
were under civil service, but by a man.
ipulation of the Postal department
administration managed to displace a
majority of the Republican carriers
and replace them with Democrats.
go When President Wilson took
office the postoffice inspection serv-
ice was under civil service rules, but
at the instigation of Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson, and with President Will
sons consent and connivance. scores
Of postoffice inspectors were dis
charged for no other reason than that
they were Republicans, and their
places filled with Democrats for no
other reason than that they were
Democrats.
(4 When William ]. Bryan, ap-
pointed by President Wilson as Secre-
tary of State, took office, he publicly
admitted his purpose to prostitute the
diplomatic and consular service by
brazeniy declaring he intended to Gust
Republicans who held consular and
diplomatic positions in order to make
room for deserving Democrats" All
these appointments were presidential
ones and Woodrow Wilson made him
self a willing and active partner in
this prostitution of the consular serv-
ice by carrying out Bryan's announce
ment.
90 The Democratic national com.
mittee's pamphlet, written by Marion
Banister, makes no mention OF the
browning disgrace and over shadowing
scandal of the Wilson administration
in connection with the civil service
administration. That occurred in 1919
when President Wilson, enraged be.
cause the United States civil service
commission would not debase itself to
become the tool OF the Democratic poll.
ticlans, fired two members OF the
commission-Charles NJ. Galloway,
Democatic member from South Caro-
lima, and Herman w. Craven, a Repu.
blican member. At the time Presi.
dent Wilson. by an executive order,
ripped out of existence the majority
Of the Civil Service commission, Mr..
Galloway issued the following state.
ment:
my resignation was forced because
! would not cooperate with Postmaster