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eA Specimen of Civil Service.If anything more' had been neededto thoroughly anil completely disgustpeople with “civil service, it seemstifethat facts like the follow ing would besufficient. We quote from the Columbia llegister of the 14th:11ehThe Civil Service Commissioners have designated C. M. Wilder, J. S. Lea ph a it, and Henry A. Wallace, connected with the postal Department as a Board, of Civil Service Examiners, who will assemble at the United States Court House in Columbia on 9th of June,“for the examination of applicants for positions in the Classified Departmental Service at Washington, and. for the conduct of such other examinations as the Civil Service Commission may request. Blanks and all necessary information will lieWfurnished persons who desire to standeItfIsc1(1atttlvthe examination upon a request addressed to the Civil Service Commission, Washington, I). C.A humbug and a fraud. More thantbat, an insult to the people of theState. Who are these Civil ServicetiiIaExaminers, before whom the citizensi rof South Carolina are to go to prove their fituess for office ?J. S. Leuphait is deputy postmaster at Columbia, who has been actingpostmaster for many yeais. He is awhite man and is clever and capable.C, M. Wilder is postmaster at Columbia, or lather be ftoldq the commission and draws the salary, but is notcapable of attending to the duties ofthe office. If we are correctly informed, lie can scarcely write bis own nan.eHe is a negro.Henry A. Wallace is a young negrotIHLL(and is a clerk in the Columbia post of-Isf w rWilder and Wallace r.re republican*;Leaphart is a democrat.lt;And this is the trio to pass upou thequalifications of South Caroliu***us whowant office under a. democratic admin- * ]nitration. -J* if-v 11Is it for such things that the State)itLegislate re passes resolutions and scuds'.them to the President ?—NewberryiiObserver,I
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Georgetown Enquirer
Georgetown, South Carolina, US
Wed, May 27, 1885
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