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Mr. Kelland proceeds to tell us that they are disgruntled because of:
This threat to the very life of a republican form of government as guaranteed to us by the Constitution, the octopus of civil service. He says further:
Civil service is the Old Man of the Sea riding the shoulders and shooting off the breath of this Eisenhower administration.
Mr. Kelland summarizes that: Our form of government is being threatened iby an entrenched civil service. 1
So, Mr. Chairman, we sum it up. Since the days of Grover Cleveland down through the administration of Woodrow Wilson, our country has made enormous progress in eliminating the spoils system in the operation of our Government.
But now we see the postal service to our rural citizens throughout the country being determined, not through nonpartisan decisions of the duly constituted civil-service officials, but by political committees whose members, not public officials, are able, nevertheless, to manipulate postal service to all the people in the interest of jobs tinder the spoils system.
And, then, we have the open threa from responsible leaders to do awa; with the civil-service system through
with the spoils system. Mr. Halleck, in his statement which I referred to earlier, is also quoted by the Washington Star as saying that, while he advocated a change in the law to remove the civil service protection of postmasters, he had to face up to the fact that there were not enough votes in Congress to enact such a law now.
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