Show It MAGHEN SHOULD BE OUSTED I HERE HERB IS 18 INDICATION that the best interests i T J of tile tie poet department nt will w l be beauD by the I removal of Superintendent of ot the rural free delivery cry ery system If Mr Mt Machen has as been guilty p ty of nothing worse worM he e is te certainly guilty of negligence of an almost criminal character Instead of conducting the affairs of ot his 11 department in a manner manner as as e they should have b e been conducted ld he be almost allowed the tile department t to run c itself No other conclusion Ion is po possible Ie from from own admission and sou Months ago he was notified that that he be must not permit p tb the he of a 8 deficit cl t Yet get in Iii the face of positive and deft det definite nite Instructions i N be he did l allow a deficit and it was WM no no small deficit either for tor or it reached ed a total of more than t n W WADd And ADd in this matter Mr Machen Kachen was at least kart guilty of evasion He said at first that the deficit was Within a few days he be was Wall forced Greed to own up to ten times that tbt sum I and aDd it may develop later that the amount is considerably cen larger Evidently the government is sorely In hi need of business men asa at the head of its bureaus The time has hasp passed p when men mea whose only recommendation is party fealty be permitted to bold office if indeed there ever was such each a time waT politicians labor Jabor under the Impression ton that gov governments itts were created and especially this government for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of ot rewarding rew with offices of trust and emolument em emolument lu ment men mea m who ho work tor for the party in power powes that it dO make any difference whether or not an individual is l qualified qualified fied for a certain post pro provided he meets the he party service f I test There has been beeD altogether too much of this sort of thing The result has baa been scandal after scandal in gov tov departments Hardly a 3 branch of the service has haa escaped deserved de censure at the hands baDda of oC the people The po ce department is 18 the tb latest test to feel the lash Ia h pf pt popular condemnation and the end of f the investigations reluctantly undertaken by the postmaster ter general is not yet in sight t tWe We trust tn t ever every charge made by Tulloch 1 the former cashier will t fee be e thoroughly sifted and the evidence given give to the public 5 that t it may judge for Itself as to the guilt or innocence of t the tine parties involved J |