Show FEDERAL OFFICE AND POLITICS A special committee of oC the National Civil ChU Service Reform league has just I Imade made a report on the th political activities of ot federal officeholders which IB Is particularly particUlarly apropos here in Utah It invest investigated investigated gated th proportion of federal officials in jn the convention and found from officials records record that of ofU Ute U e whole w convention was in the federal service and HI of the delegates from the south some ome states Blates sent one officeholder In 3 three delegates while others sent lul of or which more inure than half were federal TM This part of oC the report only confirms th tIt tM dare charge made by b the opponents of that the administrations ap appointee appointees p were U rc lined up for fm Taft and ande ware e the lh factor In Ir r HUch ae as a convention man managar agar agarTh Th The pert part of oC the report pertinent to Utah tak refers refer to the tile political I work of oC the officiate officials m l hi list In the service ence I They The are expected says the com corn committee to b be active in primaries and andna na in the in Interests t create l or of those fill fm whom they the owe oe their appointments leade to t of o idal duty dut and absenteeism on a large scale mate and the thes s i is now paying large sums sum la lit to officials whose main in Inert tar ert Ht and aM 04 activity is II devoted to poll pollutes utes while their office are left ft in the of or Tim The rM active participation by 1 b persons person grim hare 0 a C personal interest at stake take 1 I caucuses ea conventions and ando o U Uon MM seriously interferes with a af f e choice of o candidate by the pee pea peee pe e and in some sime fM 1 e parts of f 1 th the country prevent it These high higher b h he er e wide political Indu Influence ence os ee through their i and andt I t deet to possible dI front from fromon Whon on wilt mill iII as aa long aa u they are aft to take an active part in Un con a menace to free tree In hi Int t it If the committee bad had had Utah condi tOa a In hi mind when it wrote rote the report it c e wM M not have Mc made the description nt lit more perfectly The TM federal o Ice b Mrs here have ne emment tint duty t control primaries and conven conen in behalf of oC the men who gave them olice they tit e have prevented a free eh ch le o of oC candidates m In hi state and local elections they the have been and are aft now a maNse ce to free In institutions Nominally in the service of o all the tM people they have used political power to 0 thwart the will wilt of the people MOple Of at Ml alt the federal who have bae liMa boost active in machine D polities politic here t one could be he elected to public peel ua tIou yet they y have dictated nomina tIMs fletts ostracized party part men who woo op pessI them directed legislation tl and rid 14 ridden rid ridden den roughshod Nt over popular demands as ag though the people who do the voting oUng wee Wre their staves slaves to be humored or d da du do doas a u as the spirit moved toe the autocrats autocrat of ut tM ti machine Th e Civil Service leagues leaKs committee the tM extension of oC the tile clawd classi floe AIMI list at to include officers whose ap apis tnt is hi i subject to confirmation by byUM byte bythe UM the senate mate te and it advises adise a clearer den Jeh t of or the executive order political p activity a tIit In m a classified service It If such auch h a thins thing could be hO done it would sek rk ernet hardship on the federal of f Wen hero her he because In that event ui d tee would have ba to 10 show some semi Ji liAs for tor his hiB olilee and under nader r such BUch a arote ruse rote there would be in most moat of Sc the Ute government Jobs ob in Utah Just as u ason on as the rule went into effect e |