Show POLITICAL assessments AGAIN A FEW dew day ago we referred to the case of general curtis on trial in new york for violating the law against political assessments on government employees the defendant has been found guilty after raising all kinds of technical points and EO so far fartais this is a vindication of the law bui but how much does the republican party with its supporters in the highest places of the nation care caro about the verdict or the law not much i right bight on the back of the conviction of curtis comes a demand demend from the republican national congressional gress lonal committee upon the i clerks at 1 for two per cent of their salaries to aid in la the campaign of next fall fail even the boy pages in the I 1 houses of congress lit nave have ve to fork over or be in danger of dle die discharge charge it was waa thought and the idea was expressed by leading Jou journals mals bais that the curtis case would nave have a wholesome essect effect u upon pa a the party chiefs but it is now evident to all that the politicians have no more respect for the law than mercy for the poor clerks who have aa us much as they can do to I 1 make both ends with their scanty stipends this course of the committee is didgus disgusting ting decent people and papers of their own party and is rightly denounced aa as a hardy brutal and cynical repudiation of the which the party leaders have llave put io a their platform and upon which the country vas waa carried for garfield last year 1 |