If an active and aggressive man, such as the one whose name I now place before you, had been postmaster at Summit, the result in that County might have been different.

I therefore earnestly recommend that Pursell be removed, and that Mr.Garland be appointed to succeed him." The President replied: "You have given good and sufficient reasons for a change.

Leave with me the name of the man you desire to have appointed, and his name will be sent to the Senate as soon as Congress meets." I cordially thanked the President, and assured him that he would have no occasion to regret making the change.

In explanation of his Civil Service order the President remarked that quite a number of office-holders had seemed to misunderstand it, although it was plainly worded, and, as he thought, not difficult to understand.

There had never been any serious complaints growing out of active participation in political campaigns on the part of office-holders, and that it was not, and never had been, the purpose of the administration, by executive order or otherwise, to limit or restrict any American citizen in the discharge of his duties as a citizen, simply because he happened to be an office-holder, provided that in so doing he did not neglect his official duties.