Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1913 — WANT THE SPOILS OF RECENT VICTORY [ARTICLE]

WANT THE SPOILS OF RECENT VICTORY

Democrats Are Planning Overthrow of Civil Service in Order to Fix Things for Themselves.

Washington dispatches, especially the Louie Ludlow kind, are flooding the newspapers with the schemes of democrats to overthrow the civil service laws of the country and gd back to the old spoils system of rewarding the campaign worker, regardless Of his qualifications.

, Representative Cox, of Indiana, is quoted as making a bitter attack on the rural mail carriers, claiming that only 5 per cent of the 1,800 carriers in the state are democrats. 4 If the democrats have their way there will be a /6ig shake-up and all of the republican carriers and postal employees fired and the Jobs given to the “faithful.”