Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — Civil Service Travesty. [ARTICLE]

Civil Service Travesty.

The Superintendent strongly advocates the extension of the benefits of the Civil Service law Io the clerical force of the railway mail service.—Washington Special. Since when has General Superintendent Jameson, of the Railway Mail Service, become a convert to the civil-service law ? Former reports of this official are scrupulously silent on this subject.— Under a Democratic administration, instead of stepping down and out as all decent Republicans should, he remains to plead this baby act to save with his own the heads of a lot of the most intense partisans that ever disgraced the public service.

Superintend nt oil, of this division, is a beautiful example of Jameson's c vil-service tlreory. Our columns have from time to time exposed, without a single denial, the inefficiency, favoritism and bitter partisanship of this official, who only a ear ago said that “Democrats had no business in t- e railway mail service un er a Republican administration.” Yet under Superintendent Burt our new appointees are at times openly threatened with per onal punishment. A law that keeps such Republicans in place, to the exclusion of capable Democrats, is an outrage. The proposition of Superintendent Jameson to place the Railway Mail Service under the operation of this obnoxious law meets with a vigorous protest from the Sentinel, ■ s one of the representatives of Indiana Democracy. —lndianapolis Sentinel.