Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1914 — Democratic Paper Says Burleson Is “Bun in China Shop.” [ARTICLE]

Democratic Paper Says Burleson Is “Bun in China Shop.”

The North Judson News, edited by Chester A. 'McCormick, senator from this district in the state legislature,’ has the following to say abottt the recent advocacy by Post-master-General Burleson that rural mail carrying jobs be let to the lowest bidders: “Postmaster General Burleson is proving to be a bull in a china shop with about every department of the mail service. He is now urging congress to pass a law permitting him to let out the rural mail routes of the country to the lowest bidder and' place the rural service on a plane with the mail messenger and star route service of the country, where the poorest salaries paid by the government for service bbtairi. “If Burleson gets the present congress to pass this every mail carrier in Starke county arid in the country at large, will lose his job or he must bid it off at very likely little more than half the salary received. There are always a lot of fellows ready to bid on a job at most any price and then if they don’t like it, resign. By this process good service and experience in the service would count for nothing and the service would be cheap and rotten, no doubt about that.”