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...Monday evening next at 7 o'clock the annual meeting of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club will be held in Upper Mass. The business before the club is the election of officers and the discussion of campaign work. The club wishes to co-operate with the other political clubs in the campaign against Bryan. The Chicago platform contains a plank aimed directly against civil service reform, and the election of Bryan would be as disastrous to an honest administration of public office as to the honesty of our national currency. All civil service reformers must realize that the present...
...read and accepted. Its essential features were: first, adherence to the gold standard; second, no disturbance of the tariff; revenue to be increased if necessary by excise taxes; denunciation of the present Southern Pacific Railroad bill; endorsement of Pres. Cleveland's foreign policy, and the extension of civil service reform. A minority resolution favoring free silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, offered by K. Stone, L. S., of Missouri, was lost after a spirited debate. The nominating speeches were then in order. Wirt Howe '96, of Louisiana, nominated Carlisle. J. S. Bryan, L. S., of Virginia...
...President Cleveland is thoroughly fitted to carry out Democratic principles.- (1) He has made those principles what they are-(a) Committed the party to tariff reform in 1886: Cong. Record, XVIII, 6-7, (Dec. 6, 1886)-(b) Has always positively stood for sound money...
...Theodor Roosevelt will lecture to the university on Monday evening, May 4, under the auspices of the Yale Civil Service Reform Club...
...William G. Rice followed, with an outline of the practical outcome of the work of the commission. He first showed that the evils which civil service reform aimed to eradicate were no new thing, but the logical outcome of the world's progress. Thirteen years ago the first law was passed in relation to the reform movement. It sought to remove the higher offices from the control of the party spoilsmen. Since that time the idea has by degrees obtained a firmer footing, until today we have 55,000 positions open to men by competition. The speaker traced the reform...