 I ask the attention of the public to the paramount necessity of reform in our civil service — a reform not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage which have come to have the sanction of usage in the several Departments...  Das Staatsarchiv - Sida 1661878Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 848 sidor
...in our civil service, a reform not merely as tj certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage which have come to have the sanction of...expected nor desired from public- officers any partisan services. They meant that public officers should owe their whole service to the government and to the... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 sidor
...in our civil service, a reform not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage which have come to have the sanction of...usage in the several departments of our government, bnt a change in the system of appointment itself; a reform that shall be thorough, radical, and complete... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 504 sidor
...the Civil Service — a reform not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called -official patronage which have come to have the sanction of...and practices of the founders of the Government." Thc President gave the most conspicuous proof of his sincerity in selecting for the Secretaryship of... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 508 sidor
...in the Civil Service—a reform not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage which have come to have the sanction of...Government, but a change in the system of appointment itself—a reform that shall be thorough, radical, and complete—a return to the principles and practices... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 sidor
...Government." If it be a revolution, it is a revolution of a very conservative character, for it is a return to the principles and practices of the founders of the Government, and, so far from its being an endeavor to overturn the basis principles of the Government, it strives... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - 1885 - 538 sidor
...partisan appointments and pronounced : " The reform should be thorough, radical, and complete. We should return to the principles and practices of the founders of the government, supplying by legislation where needed that which was formerly established by custom. They neither expected... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1886 - 148 sidor
...inaugural urged it " not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage, * * * but a change in the system of appointment itself ;...and practices of the founders of the Government." An examination was soon made of the system on which the New York custom-house was conducted, the Secretary... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1886 - 500 sidor
...inaugural urged it " not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage, * * * but a change in the system of appointment itself ;...and practices of the founders of the Government." An examination was soon made of the system on which the New York custom-house was conducted, the Secretary... | |
 | William Harrison Clarke - 1887 - 216 sidor
...not even fit men for public place." President Hayes denounced the patronage system and advocated " a return to the principles and practices of the founders of the government " in both his letter of acceptance and his inaugural address. He also denounced the farming out of... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1891 - 840 sidor
...president had, however, in his inaugural of 5 March, 1877, declared in favor of civil service reform — " a change in the system of appointment itself ; a reform that shall be thorough, radical, and complete ; that the officer should be secure in his tenure so long as his personal character remained untarnished,... | |
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