Proceedings at the annual meeting of the national civil service reform, Issues 9-181889 |
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... municipal governments , we shall have again , as we had once , under the same conditions , men in public life able to consider in proposed changes of law more than the hopes they may arouse of personal or party gain . And when we have ...
... municipal governments , we shall have again , as we had once , under the same conditions , men in public life able to consider in proposed changes of law more than the hopes they may arouse of personal or party gain . And when we have ...
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... municipal government ? No more important questions confront the American people to - day , and they must be an- swered . These questions concern not merely the dwellers in the cities , who suffer the immediate effects of bad government ...
... municipal government ? No more important questions confront the American people to - day , and they must be an- swered . These questions concern not merely the dwellers in the cities , who suffer the immediate effects of bad government ...
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... municipal affairs . The success of this experiment is peculiarly in- teresting to us . One of the greatest dangers which beset our sys- tem arises from the existence in our cities and States of large aggregations of capital , whose ...
... municipal affairs . The success of this experiment is peculiarly in- teresting to us . One of the greatest dangers which beset our sys- tem arises from the existence in our cities and States of large aggregations of capital , whose ...
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... municipal office , and any man , however little his education or his previous training may have fitted him for the work , is considered competent to deal with the complicated problems of municipal government . A succession of men more ...
... municipal office , and any man , however little his education or his previous training may have fitted him for the work , is considered competent to deal with the complicated problems of municipal government . A succession of men more ...
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... municipal politics seem petty as compared with Na- tional politics , partly from the fact that they have been so many years in bad hands that a certain stigma in the minds of many persons is attached to men who are active in them ...
... municipal politics seem petty as compared with Na- tional politics , partly from the fact that they have been so many years in bad hands that a certain stigma in the minds of many persons is attached to men who are active in them ...
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Popular passages
Page 96 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead past bury its dead ; Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God o'erhead.
Page 68 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 19 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 106 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive...
Page 50 - ... discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section.
Page 27 - ... no removal shall be made from any position subject to competitive examination except for just cause and upon written charges filed with the head of the department or other appointing officer, and of which the accused shall have full notice and an opportunity to make defense...
Page 72 - ... election, 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.
Page 25 - ... extension of the reform system, already established by law, to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable. The spirit and purpose of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at variance with the...
Page 22 - ... 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.
Page 88 - 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.