The Civil Service Law: A Defense of Its Principles, with Corroborative Evidence from the Works of Many Eminent American StatesmenM.T. Richardson Company, 1897 - 256 páginas |
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... patronage , and power , they are its death . Even corrupt party leaders may destroy a repub- lic ; sometimes even ambitious leaders may do so . Did a nation ever strive harder to preserve its integrity than did our own during the ...
... patronage , and power , they are its death . Even corrupt party leaders may destroy a repub- lic ; sometimes even ambitious leaders may do so . Did a nation ever strive harder to preserve its integrity than did our own during the ...
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... PATRONAGE AND MERIT SYSTEMS COMPARED . The superiority of the Merit System shown by various Contrasts.— Picture of an extraordinary Officeseeking Drama ( page 58 ) .— How the President and Congressmen are harassed by Office- seekers ...
... PATRONAGE AND MERIT SYSTEMS COMPARED . The superiority of the Merit System shown by various Contrasts.— Picture of an extraordinary Officeseeking Drama ( page 58 ) .— How the President and Congressmen are harassed by Office- seekers ...
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... Patronage System . - A pro- found Disquisition on its Evils by William Paley of England.- Justice Wilson on Patronage and Official Appointments CHAPTER VIII . THE POWER OF REMOVAL . A remedy for its Mistakes and Abuses . - The Power ...
... Patronage System . - A pro- found Disquisition on its Evils by William Paley of England.- Justice Wilson on Patronage and Official Appointments CHAPTER VIII . THE POWER OF REMOVAL . A remedy for its Mistakes and Abuses . - The Power ...
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... patronage , and it compares favorably with it in its results . The failures , in after life , among the cadets who graduate , like those who are tried by probation in the civil service , are less than two per cent . The cases are not ...
... patronage , and it compares favorably with it in its results . The failures , in after life , among the cadets who graduate , like those who are tried by probation in the civil service , are less than two per cent . The cases are not ...
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... patronage , either direct or indirect , is a great if not perhaps the chief cause of corrupt elections , it logically follows that the less patronage there is , the less corruption there will be . Therefore if all , or nearly all , of ...
... patronage , either direct or indirect , is a great if not perhaps the chief cause of corrupt elections , it logically follows that the less patronage there is , the less corruption there will be . Therefore if all , or nearly all , of ...
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Página 220 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Página 222 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Página 220 - It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Página 23 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof...
Página 242 - We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Página 226 - No officer or employee of the United States mentioned in this act shall discharge, or promote, or degrade, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable thing for any political purpose.
Página 220 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should...
Página 11 - Senate, three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same party, as Civil Service Commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the United States Civil Service Commission.
Página 222 - Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.
Página 220 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.