Show CIVIL SERVICE BLOW pOST POSTMASTER rASTER TERAL GENERAL BURLESON'S S I contempt con con- contempt tempt for c civil cU U service ser rules appears to continue continuo unabated Those who fancied that tho the President the vaunted much friend of the tho civil service and enemy of the spoils s system stem would curb his postmaster generals general's animosities reckoned reckon cd without their host Mr Burleson's Burleson's Burle- Burle sons son's assaults upon this principle have hn been so determined determined deter doter mined and spectacular it is impossible the President should not be aware of them It is a a. fair inference that he ho approves cs and it obviously follows that Mr Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil ViI sons son's adherence to the civil service idea before he entered entered entered en en- politics was moro mere lip lIe He has failed to protect it upon every evary occasion since sinco he was elevated to power The postmaster generals general's latest violation of civil service rules is his hig demotion of the chief postal inspector inspector inspector in in- at San Francisco That individual vidual was reduced in the service without the filing of charges which the low law renders render obligatory in such cases he ho was demoted demoted demoted de de- by the postmaster general for administrative e reasons Such action not only contravenes the fundamental fundamental fundamental fun fun- principle upon which the civil service is based but it is a plaits plain violent violation of the stat stat- ute It is in harmony with Mr Burleson's attitude ever er since his inception President Wilson may be bc as honest as he lie claims a tithe of that supposed integrity should induce him either cither to repudiate his past utterances with relation to the civil service ser and frankly frankl i declare himself a o or 0 to censure the postmaster general folh followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed h by the tho latter's removal remo from the service if he persists |