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Show "rUtiilffiT NO SYMPATHY ESMfcTIIAT CAUSE. I don't boliovo the -frcnSpTB of this nation tho people, you understajujasfflro a whoop whether President Wilson turnssjJifttrnscals out or keeps them in. t That is to say, I don'?'fafcflevo that there is any general, living Interest offfljg part of tho boys that pay the bills as to whether the postmasters and other federal officers are allowed to live out their days at the pie counter, or whether they are removed re-moved by the present administration. And if there N any preceptible interest In the reason for removal re-moval or for retention, 1 am willing to hear evidence evi-dence on that. It was one of the latest and least creditable acts of the former President that ho tried to make secure se-cure in office an army of some fourteen thousand salary drawers that were down on their luck as o result of the national election. . It is said to be quite within the power of tho present President to institute the recall In those cases, and Initiate u referendum of one, and return those officeholders officehold-ers to their original state of sin and service. As a matter of fact, any man who has had four years of any federal office has had three years and ten months too much. For his own good he ought to be turned out to whatever grass he may find. And the longer he. gels his bacon out of government govern-ment salary, the worse he is off. The less chance he has to get It at all like a white man. Also, the fact that he was a Republican, and effective In defeating the Democrats, was the chief reason assigned by him in his argument for place at the pie board. It isn't seemly that he should be less rampant a Republican partisan now, than he was when he was demanding "recognition." He ought to be as frank and emphatic now in telling tell-ing how he had swatted the Democrats as he was when he filed his application for a cut of cake. He ought to be as strongly a Republican now as ho was when he presented his claims. And all that he ever said or did for the discrediting of the Democrats ought to be his sentiment now. And he ought to have no less hesitancy In declaring himself agin all Democrats as he would be if he didn't tremble at the prospect of getting back into the line of producers. This government, if the people rightly understand under-stand It, was not instituted and is not maintained for the purpose of getting office for fourteen thousand thou-sand or a million American citizens. If this great nation of ours was to wake up some morning and find Itself with no more to keep and defend It than the federal officers could provide, Uncle Sam would Immediately apply for a receiver. The people who pay the bills don't care a whoop whether the present pres-ent officers hold on or are made to let go. And the longer the said officers reveal their insistence on tneir ngnt to pie, the less will the bono and sinew of the nation believe tho President has both the power and the warrant for declaring the offices vacant, and fll'lng them with some one else. |