Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — P. M. KENT IS APPOINTED [ARTICLE]

P. M. KENT IS APPOINTED

NAMED CENSUS SUPERVISOR FOR THE TENTH DISTRICT. Phineas M. Kent, of Brookston, has been named by Secretary of Commerce Redfield as supervisor of the census enumeration for the tenth district .of Indiana. A supervisor has been named in each congressional district in the United States, and the appointments have all gone to “deserving democrats.” The appointments are supposed to be made under the civil service and an examination .was recently held which tested the applicant’s ability. Then another examination was held which tested the applicant’s politics, and after consultation ‘/with the person who controlled democratic patronage in the district, the appointment was made. Wherever republicans were applicants they failed to get sufficient rating in the examinations—— that is, the second examination, the one which referred to their political standing. Mr. Kent will name enumerators throughout this district, probably one from each township, who will do the active work of the census baking. No doubt Mr. Kent will be more liberal in his appointments than the secretary of commerce and will name a “few” republicans to assist him. Harry E. Reed, of Delphi, former clerk of the circuit court, and prominent as a democratic politician in the ninth district, secured the plum in that district.—Monticello Herald.