Civil Service Commissions Essential to Civil Service Reform: A Paper Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the National Civil-Service Reform League, December 11, 1896Published for the National Civil-Service Reform League, 1896 - 15 páginas |
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administration aminations assailants assault cause of reform character and capacity Civil Service Commission civil service reform CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE common school conditions of entering constitutional policy copy defeat departments and offices disregard party DORMAN dread EATON enemies of reform enforce ESSENTIAL TO CIVIL everywhere excluded fix the conditions fraud friends of reform George William Curtis Governor Cleveland indispensable need isolated examinations legislature Massachu Massachusetts merit and fitness mission NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM National service non-partisan partisan influence partisan majorities party advantage party electioneering party favorites party influence party managers party opinion party pressure party tests patronage and spoils patronage mongering patronage-mongering personal and party political assess politicians Postmasters potential President Cleveland proposed prostitute their power public servants public service reform policy reform system ringsters ruling faction salutary seek SERVICE COMMISSIONS ESSENTIAL spoil system faction spoilsmen triumph of reform unworthy officers voters withstand party York Constitution York requires
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Página 15 - ... hardly any Governor of New York has ever had — to make his administration a great honor to himself and an abiding blessing to his State and the nation. The majority of the voters never imagined that — under the lead of a politician who, fifteen years ago, tried to subjugate a President of 100 the United States to the rebellious Senators from New York — the new Governor would aid a traitorous attempt of the spoils system factions of both parties to defeat a constitutional provision — adopted...
Página 15 - ... the will of her people, will be permanently established. It does not come within the scope of this paper to deal with the constitutional question which its subject involves But, in conclusion, I wish to say that I think the new examinations proposed would not provide for the competitive examinations which the constitution of New York requires, and that the old spoils system is not likely to be re-established by law, for the very purpose of defeating its provisions, until they have been interpreted...
Página 5 - ... gates of office, more readily foist their ignorant and unworthy favorites upon the public service, more easily extort political assessments for party purposes from the public servants, under the new examinations they propose than under examinations controlled by commissions, why do they combine for a common assault upon these bodies ? . . . It is certainly possible that they have become reformers. But has any of them the courage to declare it to be their object, to make civil service reform methods...
Página 13 - ... the establishment of a kind examinations which will exclude party tests and make true non-partisan competition of capacity and character possible. The primary purposes of seeking to suppress the Commission and to establish feeble and isolated examinations, are obviously these: (1) that no one not a member of the dominant party shall be admitted to the examinations; (2) no one who passes the examinations shall be appointed unless he belongs not only to the ruling party, but to the ruling faction...