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...President Cleveland has promised that under his administration civil service offices should not be the reward of partisan activity: Letter accepting nomination, Aug., 1884; letter to G. W. Curtis, Dec. 25, 1884; inaugural address, March 4, 1884; letter to heads of departments, July 14, 1886. (Extracts from all these can be found in Senator Hale's speech in the Senate, Jan. 12, 1888.) Text in the newspapers...
...Glance at the Political Parties" is an admirable exposition of the principles of the two great political parties since 1790. We think; however, that the writer has been somewhat too partisan in his treatment of the subject...
...opposition of the fishermen is selfish and unreasonable: Boston Herald, Feb. 25, '88, p. 4. The opposition of Republican senators is factious and partisan: N. Y. Evening Post, (semi-weekly...
...Paine, Jr., emphasized his colleagues remarks and spoke of the success of the court decisions on controverted elections in England. Mr. W. M. Magee was the second to speak on the negative. In reply to a statement of the opposing side, he said that it was only partisan newspapers and second-rate politicians who assert that the committee on elections do not decide such cases conscientiously. When the question was thrown open to those present, about ten availed themselves of the opportunity and discussed with considerable feeling different phases of the debate. The vote on the merits of the question...
...ideal of things which are at trainable, is a paper which is honest, which does not palm off on its readers advertisements as news matter, which is not blindly partisan, which does its best to improve its readers, and does not pander to its lowest tastes in order to roll up a large circulation...