Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-29 | Page 4 | Frank Seeker for Pork

Frank seeker for lor fork there thero any who supposed ViceY Vice Vico WERE Y President Marshall was not in close communion and harmony with the tho administration adminis of ot which ho he forms a n. but comparatively unimportant part their theory needs revision Mr Marshall j is so close to tho administration that ho says s 's publicly and with emphasis what his associates In authority author author- ity ty haro haTo been privately private thinking and practicing practicing but without the courage to admit openlY In a 3 s speech ch at Terro Haute Haut Ind md on September 15 Hi the Indianapolis Now News reports Vice Vico President Marshall as saying concern- concern inS ng the service service- law Jaw Did I say sy civil vice set or service They both mean the same Wo We found the tho offices well guarded by snivel el service and our only regret was WM that wo we couldn't pry more moro of or the appointees ap ap- ap- ap loose and fill Ill their places with mth Democrats If It thero there is any office of of- rico Lice under the tho government that a Democrat cant can't fill fUl I believe bellevo it ought to be bo abolished Mr Ir Marshall differs from his follows Inthe in inho ho tho administration only in the tho circumstance that ho he is more frank and courageous than titan they Their attitude towards civil chil service services Is s precisely his bis as 18 they have havo demonstrated but nono none of them has tho the courage o or tho the candor to remove remo his mask of ot hypocrisy and make that honest confession that is Lq good for forthe forthe or orthe the soul roul Like LIko Mr 1 Bryan his heart bleeds for or deserving Democrats and md It chanced that hat tho particular letter in which the phrase app appeared red was written In behalf of ot a a. t. t friend whom President Wilson was most eager to appoint to office It must bo remembered that tho the vice vico president Is Is' wholly without any authority to get anybody a a. Job in tho departments That power rests In the tho President and In the President alone clone and if it the only Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic rC regret Tel was that they pry more o of tho the appointees loose 0 and fill ill their places with Democrats we wo may m. that Mr Air Wil Wilson n shared hazed that regret although ho was once b b. a vociferous advocate of or tho the merit system and an officer of ot the tho National Civil Service association In Indiana Republicans made ft t perfectly evident in greeting Mr Hughes that they knew mew Vho's yore