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...ROUNSAVILLE and O. G. VILLARD.Best general references: Bryce's Am. Commonwealth. II. Chaps. 55, 67, 88; Lalors Cyclopedia, I. 478-485; Eight Report Civil Service Commission, June, 1884. p. 1. - 15; Forum, XIV, Oct. 1892, 201; Nation XLVIII. June...
...THWAITS AND F. L. YOUNG.Best general References: Atlantic Monthly LXV. 433 (April 1890), LXVI1. 252 (Feb. 1891); Sixth Report of U. S. Civil Service Commission...
...should the restriction proposed be extended to the subordinate government officials. - (a) In the case of those under civil service rules. - (1) The incentive to political activity is removed. - (2) Their tenure of office depends on their efficiency. - (b) In the case of those still under the spoils system the evil would be removed. - (1) The incentive to political activity still remains. - (2) The official would resort to underhand means. - (3) The system proposed furnishes no guarantee of efficiency. - (c) The extension of the civil service rules to these men would be the only adequate remedy for the present evils...
...system proposed would tend to prevent the extension of civil service reform. - (a) By appeasing those who demand reform, without really giving reform. - (b) By obscuring the real evil in our politics, viz. the spoils system, and hence delaying its eradiction...
Question: "Resolved, That the efficiency of the civil service requires that no public officer should take part in the management of parties or campaigns...