Show For twenty years Carl Schuns has been preaching the loveliness of civil service lie has assailed more than one President of the United States because he was not a stlckljr after the heart of Schurz for that vital principle But he has been making the welkin ring all summer for a candidate who fltnmls on a platform which says We arc opposed to life tenure In the public service ser-vice we favor appointments based on merit fixed terms of office and such an administration of the civil service laws as will afford equal opportunities to all cltlzjcns of ascertained fitness Which Is I only a somewhat elaborate way of Mating To the victors belong the spoils I |