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Show HARDING WILL OUST 200,000 DEMOCRATS Will Substitute Republicans on Payrolls WHHINOTON'. Feb. 4. More than 200.000 Jobholders on Tncl Sam s payroll will lose theln Jobs March 4 or aoon therenftfr. Republicans Insist they don't care anything about spoils. They say about 4.'O.0OO jobs now In the classified service serv-ice the "spoils" Jobs will remain unchanged. un-changed. Hut all the Jobs that require any Independent thinking or that pay attractive at-tractive salaries weil, yes; they want them, and they mean to have them. Henry Cabot Ixdge, Republican leader in the senate, explains it thus: "The new administration la entitled to have assistants of Its own selection and who are in sympathy with it." As a result of Lodgs'a guardianship, some 19,000 nominations eent to Ihe enate by President Wilson remain unconfirmed. un-confirmed. Of these approximately 1&.000 are appointments in the army, navy and marine corps; J500 are of postmasters and The remainder In the diplomatic, consular, public health and other services. Itetween 6000 and 7000 of the army, navy and marine appointments probably prob-ably will be confirmed before March 4. Hut confirmation will cover only original origi-nal appointments, necessary to retain men in the service, and will not affect any officer hoping for promotion or preferment. |