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1 Francis Ellington Leupp, Ring Rule 1 (1896)

handle is hein.amindian/rinrul0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 27-SECOND SERIES-3000. INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, 1305 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. From CITY AND STATE, February 13, x896. RING RULE. We call attention to our Washington letter, printed in an- other column of CITY AND STATE, which exposes one of the most insidious spoils-system schemes ever devised by practical politi- cians for the injury of the Indian Service. It was the experience of the Indian Rights Association that Home Rule, as ap- plied to the appointment of Indian Agents under President Har- rison's Administration, simply meant Ring Rule. It is a trick by which spoils politicians, under cover of a euphonious name, tie the President's hands when he endeavors to appoint first-rate Indian Agents, and force him to select local political hacks of their choosing. Let all who are in favor of Civil Service Reform and of an improved Indian Service write to their Senators and Representatives in Washington, opposing this in- iquitous scheme. Let them, also, write Senators Hoar, of Mas- sachusetts, and Platt, of Conhecticut, asking them to declare themselves on this question. \Their influence should be exerted against the so-called Home Rule appointment of Indian Agents. WASHINGTON LETTER. The Home Rule fight has been renewed in the United States Senate this session, with effects which threaten serious injury to the Indian Service. At least three, and possibly four, nomi- nations made by the President to agencies in that service have been hung up because the men named were not residents of the State in which their official duties will have to be performed. Whatever arguments may be adduced in support of a Home Rule policy in regard to the offices requiring the exercise of mere business prudence and financial honesty, there is nothing to commend its extension to the case of an officer of the Indian 1

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