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action administration adopted American annual meeting application appointed bill Bonaparte boss Boston candidate Carl Schurz citizens Civil Service Law Civil Service Reform Civil Service Rules CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE classified service clerks Commissioners competitive Constitution consular service Consuls corruption declared Democratic Department District duties election employees evil examination Executive Committee favor Foulke fourth-class George William Curtis Herbert Welsh honest honor influence interest labor legislation machine ment merit system moral motion municipal National Civil NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM nomination opinion organization partisan party patronage persons platform pledges political political corruption politicians post-offices postal service Postmaster-General postmasters practical present President principles promise promotion public office public service purpose question R. H. Dana Railway Mail Service regard removals Republican resolution result Richard Henry Dana salaries Secretary secure Senate Service Reform League spirit spoils system Tammany Tammany Hall tenure tion violation vote voters York
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66 psl. - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
10 psl. - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; 'but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
5 psl. - Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
20 psl. - ... in this: the President can displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it. What will be the motives which the President can feel for such abuse of his power, and the restraints that operate to prevent it? In the first place, he will be impeachable by this House, before the Senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust.
86 psl. - No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties.
18 psl. - It would have been to me a circumstance of great relief, had I found a moderate participation of office in the hands of the majority. I would gladly have left to time and accident to raise them to their just share. But their total exclusion calls for prompter corrections. I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the...
25 psl. - I have heard the taunt, from friendliest lips, that when the United States presented herself in the East to take part with the civilized world in generous competition in the arts of life, the only product of her institutions in which she surpassed all others beyond question was her corruption.
19 psl. - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
70 psl. - ... applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who having voted once at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name.
34 psl. - REFORM IS NECESSARY in the civil service. Experience proves that efficient, economical conduct of the governmental business is not possible if its civil service be subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ballot-box, be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public employ...