Show I KERN SCORCHES I ITHE i THE PRESIDENT People of America Have Right Rig t tto to Choose Servants With Without Without Without out Official Influence Kalamazoo Mich Sept 29 The people of ol America will in my m judgment judg judgment ment mente demand the right to choose hoose their servants free tree from official Influence and effort of a president who goes al all almost almost most on in insist insisting Insisting ing that he be allowed to name name his his own successor suc John W v Kern Democratic vice pres presidential presIdential presidential candidate before a a crowd that filled the big Academy of Music here thus thu President Roosevelt to tonight tonight tonight night for his participation in the na national national campaign He continued The president and his array arra of ot official official cial cia retainers having triumphed in the convention many supposed su posed that the two great political parties partie parties would be I permitted under the hip of their respective candidates to go before the country and in the th usual way decide the thc issue But it seems that the spirit of ot civil service reform taken its flight to return no more during the thc present administration Not satisfied with the conduct of the campaign by bythe b bythe the thc lawfully designated authorities of his party part the president has again thrown himself Into the breach thrust p pa ty y leaders aside and with a bigger stick than usual is striking out in every eVer direction Columns of vituperative vituperative atJe fulminations are coming coining from the White House almost daily dall and the spectacle of the president of a great republic the president of all aU the people engaged in the work usually per Der performed formed by the lower grades of politicians politicians politicians is calculated to cause the tho fair minded patriotic citizen to pause and consider By B his own conduct as a public ser servant servant vant ant he invites all office holders again to disregard gard the civil service laws and following his example exa devote their time and abilities to party success rather than to the service of ot the public Having dictated the tha nomination of his successor he now undertakes to force his choice upon the people by a course which Is at utter variance with all pre precedent precedent precedent and not tolerable In free gov government gO government I |