Show B H AND CIVIL SERVICE The administration violating its pledges I appears to be letting no opportunity to escape es-cape to advertise its hostility to the civil service law If the President had been a sincere friend of the law as he pretended to be in his letter of acceptance bo would have acted promptly upon Commissirher ROOSEVELTS report of the condition of the federal offices at Baltimore and turned out the postmaster and the marshal The testimony tes-timony of the misuse of their offices for partisan purposes was not only sufficient but overwhelming and confessed con-fessed Yet Mr HARRISON permitted his postmastergeneral to appoint a favorite togo to-go to Baltimore and make not only a whitewashing white-washing report as to the officials involved but a direct attack upon the commissioner And now it is reported that this latter officer is to be supplanted The Now York Times of Saturday has an interview with Mr ROO = EVELI who says I wrote that report like a thesis It is substantiated sub-stantiated by the testimony of hostile witnesses Instead of taking the testimony ol the men who hai made the charges againat the employees of the Baltimore postofflce who might be prejudiced preju-diced I took the testimuny of those who migh be injured by an adverse report It is absurd to believe that they then lied to their disadvantage dis-advantage and now are telling the truth Anj man who would believe that is either a fool or a lnac I made the report I did because there was wrongdoing in the Baltimore pobtofllce as the testimony conclusively showed |