Show THE PRESIDENT AND CIVIL SERVICE The journals friendly to President Wilson express the belief that the president is friendly to the rules that have g governed the civil service service ser ser- vice through three Republican administrations I II I but that the fact that there have been serious i t vio violations of those rules of late is due no doubt 1 to the presidents president's desire not t to antagonize the members of his party narty in congress Why make such lame excuses What authority has any newspaper for supposing that the pl president is h not i in full accord with any measure designed to oust ms and put nut Democrats in their 1 I places l Was Vas ras not blot one of his his' first off official cial acts 1 I 1 th the firing out of a distinguished Republican J who in his twenty years of service had become eminent to make room for far a Democrat who had never had the slightest experience in caR ca- ca R I If there is anything absolutely plain S 1 it is that the intention was long ago fixed not to t have harve one Republican in office when the campaign i of 1916 draws near |