Show Civil Service Reform Washington 13 Regarding the civil service reform agitation Brown in his speech very recently exposed the democratic demo-cratic views He said for more thantwenty years the past patronage of tho government govern-ment had been in the hands of the repub icins democrta had any of it that the handwriting appears on the wall saying the party has been weighed in the balance bal-ance by the people and found wanting It may be wise on the part of republican leaders to do all in their power to secure the passage of a law to return republican republi-can office holders to Foffico after the people peo-ple commanded a change of administration tion it would be very unwise on the part of democratic statesmen to give their assent to such a measure at this time When we have inaugurated a democratic President and secured a fair share of the offices to the democrats it will be the proper time to nsidor and act upon civil service measures |