Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — How To Get Office. [ARTICLE]

How To Get Office.

A dispatch says that the following code of rules can now be authentically given as those which will govern all appointments to the public service under this administration* First--Incumbents will be retained in office until their commissions expire, unless there is voluntary resignation. When there is no commission fixing tenure the incumbent, if efficient, will be permitted to serve for four years from time of appointment. Second —No one who held office under the former Cleveland administration will be again appointed to office, the only exceptions being to railway mail clerks and postoffice inspectors. Third —No appointments will be made in States having spring elections until they have occured. Fourth—All postmasters must divorce themselves from private business, excepting instanoes where, in the fourth class, the pay is so small that postmasters cannot give undivided time to the postoffice. Fifth—Appointments will not be made upon magnitude of petitioners or indorsements alone, but the character, appearance and evident fitness of the applicant; for the place must also be considered. Sixth—As appointments are of an executive and not of a political character, recommendations by primary election will not prevail. Seventh—No exceptions will be made to Rule 2 in favor of applicants who were removed from office by the last administration before they had. served the full term of four years, no matter how brief their service may have boon.