Show DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS Senator Cushman K Davis was either napping or indifferent when Goemor Merriam was appointed director of the cencus The senators wife conclude that the feud had gone far enough Vowalke she became sony for the old governor after preventing isis appointment ap-pointment as ambassador to Russia All things considered however the executive of Minnesota has a good bert and one which Is destined tl male him an Important factor In the Republican party net campaign Beside giving him the bet of opportunities to do eC fetve campaign work it wi aid the admInistration In building up a machine ma-chine for use In 190 The director Is to examIne all appl cants for clekhlps at Washington but chi service rules are thrown tl the winds Even in Harrlons admlnlstn ton when they were supposed to be so strictly enforced II Porter the superintendent su-perintendent o the census likewise gave aU candidates an examination and through a little Indirection assigned as-signed those who failed and those who passed t dek side by side Imagne a senates of any spunk whatever permitting per-mitting a dependent relative or a henchman to bear the disgrace ot golng back home as a failure and losing te costs of his trip Merriam is a politician not a state man and he has been appointed for political reasons and purpose But i be were ant a politician i he were a man of figures and cared nothing for polities at all he would have to make the appointments demanded of him by influential membe of his party re garless of qualifications and exa1ln ton 3The man docs not live who as director of the census could regularly turn awa because of failure to pas an examination those persons in whose behalf influential senators were Interested inter-ested I such a man could be found he would not hold his place a week Resolutions to investigate him would be in order and a the judges In his case would be aU prejUdIce against such obstinacy it would go hard with him indeed The census law provIdes for an ex pet and a patronage broker at the he or the bureau In aU probability Merriam Is to discharge the duties of the later for he cannot handle those of the former I roYde tat It shall be under the charge of a director of the census specifies the method of his appointment and his saay bu says nothing about his qualifications Those Tho-se section provides for an sistnnt director to be appointed in like man nor who shall be an experienced static tclan and shall receive an annual sal ar of 400 This is l it should be For the difficulty In finding a man who can In a hIgh degree combine the qua ites of an expert statistician with the ability of a patronagedIspensing poll tcia Is weH known I This censs will come in 100 in a presidential year and one feel supervisor su-pervisor In each congressional district will be able to do wi considerable work for Mr McKinleys renominaton These supervisors will doubtless be hute appointed as politicians and instructed for whom to shout may all get ondele gatons to the net Republican national convention The people have come to I expect such things and they have begun be-gun to resent them too Stranger things have happened than would be the defeat de-feat of the Republcans at the polls in 1900 if the persist In creating for that I year out of what should be a scientific I investigation a huge political machine and spending wastefully the millions of te peoples money i |