The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-29
Coalition GoUernn1ent
 In State Criticized
Betrayed Voter" Alleges Governor Baldwin Tied Up With Merit System Association-"Red
 Herring" Plainly Evident States Writer.

but we will always look to the day when liberty of the individual will be resurrected." This is noth- Ing by pretense and noble pat- ter without substance, If support to any system" which deprives American citizens of the Consti- tutional rights of voluntary poli- tical activity is promoted and en- couraged by the source of such edifying comments.
 Chain Of Directors
 The real nature of the spirit" and principle" behind the Merit system Is to establish Q national system" or "chain" of 48 state Personnel Directors, along with Q Personnel Director for each of the Federal departments, in one concentrated system" to destroy our traditional form of democra- tlc government. The guise of purifying" politics, by taking public employment away from "politics", Is the flimsiest of pre- tenses to anyone giving 1t Q min. ute's serious thought. It merely transfers the method of "patron- age". It is impossible to separate human nature from human be- ings, or the light from the flame of Q candle, or sunlight without shadow. They are co-existant- as Is the Merit System with poli- ties.
 The theory is advanced that politics should have nothing to do with tho Merit System, or the Merit System with politics. There are many partisan voters who fully agree with this, and there Is sure to be Q demand to have any Merit System plank eliminated from the coming state partisan political conventions. The de- parting request of Personnel Dl- rector Marsh that permission be given by the Attorney General to destroy past examination records of the personnel department, which was emphatically forbidden as against tho state law intent, can be visualized, If the public wishes, as . need for Storage space which has created c serious problem" Or, any other way.
 But, most interesting politically, Is the method of rapid-ilre ap- pointment by Governor Baldwin of an executive assistant with the powers apparently intended of Q deputy personnel director, which presumably would be the same as that ~ personnel director. It leads to the belief that, had Q special examining committee been given power to select candidates for the governors choice, the paid lobbyist of the Merit System would probably now be the temporary personnel director, with power over thousands of Democratic and Republican public employees. With later expectancy of life tenurel"
 Committee Ignored
 More interesting, is the opinion of the states attorney general that anyone selected for person. mel director powers must be see lected by the advisory personnel committee" and mot through others" Coupled with the super for court decision of Judge P. B. O'Sullivan which definitely estab- fishes that three conditions must be met before such powers can be bestowed on anyone: Selection by the advisory board, choice by the governor, and confirmation by the state Senate. It is assert- ed by the governor that the ex- ecutively-created job, designed to appease the system" promoters, is to be in the classified service, lat- CT. In which case, any job in the classified service must have certi- fled assurance of actual need for the job by the head of the de- partment, which MT. Donning has had no hand in doing. Also, duties must be established and qualifi- cations determined to fit those duties. Which is the work of the advisory personnel committee, in final part. The committee has been ignored. The committee can- not "legislate" power beyond the merit act itself. Nor, explainably, can anyone else.
 BETRAYED VOTER.