National Affairs: Lynched the Wrong Man

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The National Civil Service Reform League called on President Harding for further explanation of the dismissal of 27 employees from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which caused much discussion a year ago. The employees were reinstated last month.

The League asserts that the employees were unjustly treated and asks the President to publish the reports of the official investigations of the case. Although the 27 unfortunates have been restored to the civil service, it is declared that their dismissal was irregular, that now they are reinstated at less salary than they formerly received, that their names are unjustly left under a cloud. The New York World comments: " The head of the Arizona Vigilance Committee who said to the bereaved widow, ' The drinks are on us, ma'am; we lynched the wrong man,' expressed the President's attitude."