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Show HAYS EXPECTED IB CUT P. 0. PIE Republicans Hope They'll 'Get Away With' Large Cleanup WASHINGTON. Mar. 11. XX'lll the ! order of President Wilson, made Marih 11. 1917. placing the selection of first, second and third-class postmasters post-masters Under civil wervlce. stand thc-ple-counter rush of Job-hungry Republicans? Re-publicans? Indications are that it Will not that tho 1 1.53b postofflces In those three classes will be utilized to pay party campaign obligations and strengthen Republican organization machinery. The Incoming postmaster general. Will l Mays, who Is also chairman of the Republican National committee, commit-tee, so far has given no statement of his future policy, ion l BY READY But party leaders believe the coun- , irv is rciiay, psycnoioKicaiiy. to snp-! snp-! port any move that sets aside orders of tlie Democratic regime. No records art available to show the party affiliations of postmasters In the three higher classes of offices , today. in view of Intimations by Republicans, Republic-ans, however, that the Democrats had j not tarried out the president's order I In Kood faith, tin department on Feb. 12 asked postmasters in the upper classes to state their party allegiance. L'p to March there were 103 an- swers. (if this number, 1012 said they I were Democrats, 907 declared they were Republicans, 3i' listed themselves as Independent, 10 as Prohibitionists. 3 as Socialists. 129 said they had no affiliation. Ten failed to stato their parly. R I t HI X - I I M. Eliminating the answers from the ll southern states, where Democrats might easily be expected to predomln-i ate. i he lineup was: Democrats 598, Republicans s-16,1 Independents 26. Prohibitionists 9, i Socialists 3. without affiliations 95. ST en In the "solid south.' how-' ever, the returns showed O. . P. post-1 masters In Alabama offices. 5 in I Xrkansas. 7 in Florida, 5 In Kentucky,! 9 in North Carolina. 8 in Georgia, 4 1 In Louisiana, 1 1 in Texa.H, r.f In 'ir- 1 Klnla. I In Mississippi and 2 in South! "arollna. Tho ple-eounter rush Is particularly! stronif toward the department to be' headed by Hays, as his position as1 ehalrmun of the national , ommitti e and manager of the Harding cam-! palgn has fitted him to know Just who: did and who did not pull zealously, for party success during the campaign. |